I always read your posts carefully, but because I am poorly informed otherwise of the countries and peoples I usually refrain from comment. However, I wanted to address something in this post.

"...ultra-conservative..."

I learned that the term conservative referred to human rights, at least in the USA. I am ultra-conservative, because I understand that human rights underlie every political and civil undertaking. Respect for human rights all people have is what makes civil society possible. When I grew up conservatives opposed government oppression, taxation, censorship, and similar degradation of the human rights of their civilian populations. Conversely Liberals raised taxes, censor forthright discussions regarding government policies, and have begun arresting and holding people in captivity for having opinions counter to state propaganda in a turn to worse oppression across the West, perhaps most notably in England of late, where it is the new Prime Minister Keir Starmer, of the Liberal Party, that is behind this worsening oppression. [Edit: turns out he is in the Labour Party. My bad.]

I do not know how conservative could mean oppressive, as you seem to have used the term here, referring to Israel. I don't think any polity in the world more disrespects human rights than Israel, where recently a group protested riotously, even breaking into a jail, demanding the right to rape male Palestinian children they considered political enemies of the state of Israel.

I vehemently oppose such violence and abuse, and I consider that opposition to be based on the rights of people accused of crimes to humane and just treatment, even in the hands of their political enemies, to be a conservative policy: conserving human rights. I would describe the demands of the Israelis demanding the Palestinian children held captive by the state of Israel be handed over to them to be raped as liberal, referring to liberating the power of the state from restraint, disdaining, not guarding or conserving human rights.

These terms seem prone to being disparaged by politically oriented groups opposing them, misinterpreted, and used to mock or discourage their political opponents. They are quite confusing to begin with, as Liberals and Libertarians are practically opposite in policy despite having the same root word as the name of their movement.

What do you mean by 'conservative'? What is it conservatives are conserving so hard in Israel you refer to that polity as ultra-conservative?

Thanks!