I'd argue that Israel is, in fact, behaving worse than South Africa ever did. Apartheid-era South African government was a nightmare, but didn't engage in mass murder (or, uh, "collateral damage") on an Israeli scale. Actually a few orders of magnitude separate them.

That slaughter is worse than discrimination should be obvious. If you discriminate against somebody you harm their dignity and you narrow their future possibilities; if you murder somebody you rob them of everything, including their dignity and every possible future.

I'd also argue, and I think that this should be perfectly self-evident, that however a group may have suffered in the past, it does not give them a moral right to impose suffering on others in the present. No such moral right can possibly exist.

Isn't "whoever saves one life saves the world entire" supposed to be a Jewish moral teaching? How can this be reconciled with a profound indifference to civilian casualties in captive populations?