Zakaria: What the Palestinians should do.

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31. Funding, primarily

You're aware that it costs money to create an organization and keep it operational on any major level, right? You can't just power them on wishes and good intentions. This is why the majority of peace organizations are joint or multiparty efforts with Palestinians working with Israelis or multiple nationalities to achieve the goal that you - absurdly, and wrongly - dismiss as "unpopular." Just as you dismiss and ignore the many local-level efforts that utilize peaceful forms of redress or protest.

There are also the problems of connections - it's actually rather difficult to organize online and achieve things for any period of time. Not impossible, but difficult. When's the last time DU managed to accomplish anything above an individual scale?

Also, Israel's not real fond of dissent and peaceful protest from Israelis; Take a look at the anti-boycotting law. How do you think it reacts to protest from Palestinians? it hasn't been with welcome arms. it's been met with arrests, "nonlethal" weaponry, deportations, confiscations, bureaucratic shutdowns, pretty much everything short of killing. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/world/middleeast/29palestine.html
Well, short of killing as policy; there had been deaths from canisters, rubber bullets, gas inhalations, and that sort of thing.