To put it simply: Jewish people found out the hard way what happens to people who don't have a nation-state to represent and protect them. International politics is fucking brutal, and without an army you are mostly helpless to prevent larger states from trampling all over you. Indigenous people all over the world have been genocided just because they were living on a piece of land too valuable to somebody else, so after the Shoah the world thought that giving the Jewish people a state would protect them. Now Israel's actual formation is much more complicated since only a select minority of Jews were part of that specific project but that's the basics.

The issue now is that Israel became one of those strong nation-states that trample all over weaker defenceless people. Now Palestinians are the (functionally) stateless ones that are stripped of their basic human rights for being born in the wrong place. The core problem of ultimate state sovereignty leading to ethnic cleansing still remains, just the targets have shifted over time as peoples move up and down the geopolitical ladder.

TLDR: "what if we just gave the Jews their own ethnostate? then if they keep getting killed no one can blame us anymore because they would be in charge of their own security" - UN post-war trying to solve fascism while nearly blacking out from liberalism

Like all things, comrade, economic relations and the base comes first - then the social relations and superstructure flows from that.

Who are the settlers in Palestine? The poor and dispossessed from Israel and from around the world. Of course they are, these neighborhoods arent exactly safe or nice AND they're often subsidized directly or indirectly by the state or ngo's. The poor move in there because Israel proper is getting priced out. Same thing happened with settlers in America and Canada. They even gave land for FREE to settlers in western Canada (provided they cleared the forest on it within a year or something).

The poor move there because they have to, because they're driven by economics. That doesnt make what they do forgivable or right, but if you want to understand why its happening and begin to figure out how to stop it you must understand the base and economic reasons it exists. Plus, all that violence is abstract enough - the IDF and police handle it all, the settlers never have to actually see it or do it.

In the end, we can solve this when the Israelis and the settlers realize they have more in common with the Palestinians they're displacing than they do with bourgeoisie that are depriving them of shelter and wealth back home, even though they may share a religious faith with those bourgeois. If some critical mass figures that out, we can break this system like a dry twig and there can finally begin an actual peace process and reconciliation and justice in the middle east.