Palestinians can't achieve their goals peacefully without strong foreign backing. They are not getting that at the moment.

EU is very slowly waking up and doing a few haphazard moves, but far more is needed. Occupations won't end if the occupier isn't - one way or another - forced to give up them by making them too expensive. When that doesn't happen, then they go on and on.

The problem in Palestine has been that the "West" has never backed it's calls for peaceful resistance by support, but has instead tried to block or nullify both political moves and grass-roots non-violent resistance - or has just suffocated them with silence.

The "West" is far too happy with the supposed Status Quo, which is anything but it thanks to the large-scale settlement building. But how to get that message through to "Western" leaders who don't want to hear it and most certainly mostly don't want to do anything to antagonize Israel's regime, even as extreme as the current one?