They did try means other than violence
They tried oppression and suppressions of rights
They tried the the impronment of an entire population within walls
They tried checkpoints
They tried profiling from soldier onto kids and innocent people
They tried land appropriation
They tried arbitrary prisonners
..They actually tried a lot of BAD things. Not the actual things that were needed:
- The end of colonization
- The renunciation of Palestinian lands in the limits of 1948
- The freedom of people of Gaza
- The stop of the oppressions of Palestinian minorities in Israel
Etc.
Of course not.
this is basically what states always have been doing
so you're in between just like a rational person should be I see