Let's talk about terrorism as a legitimate form of resistance.
I'm gonna use: IZL, LHI, ANC, PFLP, PLO, and Hezbollah, to see the commonalities and the differences, as well as what happens when you succeed and receive legitimacy. Thread.

LHI and IZL were underground Zionists groups who used terror in order to fight colonial British rule. The widely condemned King David hotel bombing primary objective was to destroy confiscated documents, not mass civilian casualties like blowing up airplanes, synagogues, etc.

The ANC operated on their own land with very targeted actions to harm gov operations and later apologized for unintentional death as a result of "insufficient training".
The ANC and Mandela fought for voting rights in South Africa.

PFLP operated globally. They intentionally targeted &, murdered innocents, and called a synagogue massacre heroic. PFLP stated, from day one, it's about destroying the Jewish state and returning to pre-1948 status of Palestine. Khaled goes further saying Hezbollah a sister party.

The AMIA terror attack in Argentina that killed 85 Jews & wounded 300, by Hezbollah was supported and coordinated with the Palestinian leadership.
The Hyper Kosher attack in France was also quoted as revenge for Palestinians. Targeting innocent Jews outside Israel.

When Israel was established, and the leadership received political power and legitimacy, the Zionist leadership disavowed and dismantled the fringe groups who employed it. Same with Mandela and the ANC.

After Arafat disavowed terrorism and let down his arms (not really but sort of- Second Intifada would like a word), Palestinians received political power and international legitimacy as well as multiple offers for sovereignty and self rule. Hamas, PIJ, PFLP, and others refused.

Westerners call Begin and Shamir terrorists, in a negative tone, while Arafat and Abbas have a much worse record when it comes to the terrorist activities and its aim on innocent civilians. The men who fought colonialism, are bad terrorists. Those who murdered kids are good.

Palestinians today have a legitimate leadership with full capability to negotiate a peace deal toward full sovereignty & a Palestinian state, yet lefty westerners continue to fetishize Palestinian terrorism, raising their status to heroes, as if legitimate means no longer exist.