The oft-repeated mantra that there is “no military solution” to the conflict in Israel and Palestine logically leads to the search for alternatives to military action, especially on the part of a stateless, occupied people who could never be a true threat to their antagonist. Israel and its supporters could have been relieved, even if grudgingly, that a huge segment of Palestinian society was embarking on an explicitly nonviolent resistance tactic.22 But this was not the case.
