They need to be MORE like the Zionists. In a pragmatic kind of way..
Zionists used terrorism to get what they wanted, so why is everyone complaining when Palestinians copy Zionist methods?
You're ignoring all the HARD diplomatic efforts, the lobbying, the PLANNING, the fund raising, the coalition building, the Congresses, the city planning and infrastructure priorities. A movement FOCUSED on creating a nation. YOU -- will kick back the few instances of self-protection or violence that happened along the way. But in balance, they were not the PRIMARY method of "resisting" or getting attention for the cause.
...and you are ignoring the fact that Zionism was (still is to a leser extent) prevalent amongst the west's Christian elites along with their anti-Semitism in the late 19th early 20th centuries, that made it easy to manipulate powerful figures in governments on both sides of the Atlantic with the "siren call" of "returning the Jews to enable them to build their temple and bring about the End times".
The Zionist PLAN was always to dispossess the native inhabitants...you are ignoring the fact that palestine already had cities and infrastructure, mostly created by British and Palestinian investment after WW1. The Zionists didn't "make the desert bloom" they bought up the best available agricultural land wherever they could and expelled the tenant farmers.
The Zionist movement FOCUSED on "appropriating" other people's lands, farms, homes to create their settler state. YOU ignore the widespead terrorism committed by the Zionists for twenty years; none of which was "self protection".
The Palestinians co-operated with the British as much as they could but were, by and large, deliberately cut out of government to enable the British to fulfill their Balfour Declaration promises. It took 10 years of being forgotten by the world, before Palestinians finally resorted to fighting back against what had been done to them. You are ignoring the fact they already had a country to begin with.
