If you form a militia you’re halfway to reinventing a state, but without even a pretense of accountability to the citizenry—basically what Hamas is.
If you want diplomacy to work, you have to 100% re-invent the state, because nobody will negotiate with a self-appointed “diplomat” who can’t guarantee the people they claim to represent will abide by the agreements they make. Now you’re talking about something like the Palestinian Authority.
Your other options are ways to make life hard on occupiers, which means you’ve already lost, like people in Iraq or Afghanistan. You’ll note that neither territory is currently without a government, and the one that “won” the occupation by driving out the invaders has an especially brutal government. And in both cases a shitload of people died before the invaders left.
If you form a militia you’re halfway to reinventing a state, but without even a pretense of accountability to the citizenry—basically what Hamas is.
If you want diplomacy to work, you have to 100% re-invent the state, because nobody will negotiate with a self-appointed “diplomat” who can’t guarantee the people they claim to represent will abide by the agreements they make. Now you’re talking about something like the Palestinian Authority.
Your other options are ways to make life hard on occupiers, which means you’ve already lost, like people in Iraq or Afghanistan. You’ll note that neither territory is currently without a government, and the one that “won” the occupation by driving out the invaders has an especially brutal government. And in both cases a shitload of people died before the invaders left.