It seems to be widely defined as the establishment and maintenance of an explicitly Jewish state.

Most Israel want the former. A hard core minority wants the latter. The last few decades the latter set the tone because the dovish side of the map hadn't propose a viable course of action to change the status quo. The moderate majority is too scared and it lost faith in trying to reach a peace agreement again after the violence the last try brought, And the "death to israel" rhetoric of palestinian leaders.

So while the majority is pretty moderate, the perceived lack of partner basically put in power an extreme right minority. This might change as there's an undercurrent of population change, where the new majority might be less preoccupied with western values of democracy and citizen rights.

Zionism might not be religious, but the political forces that would prevent relinquishing territories in modern day Israel very much are.

Gulf states are more worried about Iran's intransigence than they are about the rights of Palestinians and that's where we are today.

Trump is not here anymore, but I don't think his efforts actually made the situation harder to solve, this is a misconception, they did push the Palestinians to a corner and they lost some Arab support, but it could have led to new negotiations where the Palestinians are pushed by this reduced support and Israel is pushed by behind the scenes threats from Trump to lose support.

The Palestinians nothing more than a play tool for other Arab nations, not just the Gulf states. Even their close neighbors, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Egypt, are not big fans

And this situation get to fester while corrupting both our people.

Trump's 'big gamble' on N. Korea for example does not apply to Israel in that way.

If anything Trump would 'end' the situation by caving to pressure to declare the occupations 'legal territory of Israel' or something along those lines.

I don't think he remotely understands the history or cares, he'll take what some of his wealthy buddy 'advisers' tell him about it.

I believe he would do it in a heartbeat in exchange for guarantees for financing on construction of a few buildings in NYC and Tel Aviv.

He is as corrupt as he can be within the law, he will offer powerful people 'whatever' on a personal basis, in exchange for some personal gain be it populist or prospect of future deals.

FYI I don't think he had anything to gain on N. Korea but some kind of accolade, it's the only situation that didn't provide for considerably conflict of interest.

And yes, I agree that the Gulf States don't care that much about the Palestinians, but they do at least a little bit.

What is Israel doing better than pre apartheid South Africa? Or rather, what are the positive differences between the two regimes?

So Israel is (was) willing to give equal rights to any one who accepts jews place in israel.

The last few decades are begining to erode this willingness. And I fear we maybe slipping to full apartheid.