Using it to describe Israels effort to provide infrastructure, jobs, healthcare etc in the preceding decades is just insultingly wrong.

No contradiction there.

It's perfectly possible for the State of Israel to be nakedly and unapologetically engaging in a long-term campaign of ethnic cleansing (in the West Bank) and somewhat more convertly/discreetly so (in Gaza), while also, occasionally providing some measure of benefits to the affected population in certain narrow contexts.

In fact, this is exactly how colonial occupations work.

Or as Captain Willard put it (starting around 5:15):

  "It was a way we had over here of living with ourselves.  We'd cut them in half with a machine gun, and then give them a Band-Aid. It was a lie."