It was the ex-pat that sounded odd --- an ex-patriot is usually thought of as is someone who has left their homeland to settle elsewhere for good not just to work abroad for a few years - I lived and worked abroad for many years but was never an ex -pat - just an English woman abroad - 'a tourist' as the Kurds would say. I lived in Belgium for near 20 years and still didn't understand their legal system - I still don't fully.
The Knesset passed some strange statutes, Status Acts, which do deny the citizen if not a national about 93% of the rights enjoyed by nationals.
I was not specific enough in my first statement - which did not include those few animals the non Jewish Israeli citizens - and am sure that when it comes to criminal trials that you are correct, protests and demos being dealt with by criminal or military courts, only non citizens are tried in military courts - of civil courts you are not correct when it comes to land because of the Status Acts - and I think we are soon to find out how very bad they are because it seems that Israel is now after the Bedouin's land too.
Sure, many people enjoy living in countries with rotten human and civil rights, all people want to be happy - it still don't make 'em ok -