Why anticolonial tactics won't work in Israel

Throughout history many militarily superior occupiers were successfully driven from their colonial possessions through a combination of unending resistance fighting and sometimes terrorism. Notably, the Irish managed to free themselves of the British and are now among Palestine's most ferverent allies.

However, Israel is not the UK and the approaches the Palestinian liberation movements have taken so far, which emulate past anticolonial struggles, fundamentally won't work against it.

Ultimately the UK left Ireland not because they were dealt a total military defeat, but because holding on to the territory was made so expensive, both militarily and politically, that the occupation became untenable. This was only possible, because the UK didn't fundamentally need to hold Ireland. It might have been lucrative or prestigious, but it was not necessary. And this is why the UK could be convinced to cut their losses and go home.

For Israel the situation is very different. There is no home island they might 'go home' to. To have control over its own territory is a fundamental and necessary part of its statehood. No amount of terror attacks or expense caused by resistance fighting will make it untenable for Israel to continue its fight for existence. Unlike the British, Israel is willing to absorb infinite expense, because they are not fighting for land, that they can ultimately give away, but fundamentally their own existence as a state.