You know, if Palestinians showed up with this organized determination for real injustices to themselves, the whole damn conflict would have been resolved.

I think you underestimate the Israeli ability to spot and stamp out effective opposition to themselves. They were VERY active in stifling nascent nonviolent oppo during the first intifada in the 80s.

Violence, non-violence, it doesn't matter. It is organized persistence that matters. Palestinians in the USA, for example (and I mean immigrants not as much Palestinian-Americans born here) do not lobby their representatives consistently for minimal consideration even without having the burden of (at least pre-9.11) vicious official repression against it.

The problem lies in a fatalism about politics among the larger community of Palestinians (as opposed to non-fatalism about ridiculous concepts of family honor), which would be OK (the political fatalsim) if it were not combined with a) an urgent situation requiring correction, and b) a history of self-destructive bellicose fantasy-land nationalism among the elite (elimination of Israel in the past for example -- and I am using that as an example, yes, I know the situation has changed and that is used as an evasion to avoid discussion of Palestinian rights, but demands are typically wholly out of reach of the efforts the society is willing to pursue).

Societies are often pre-paralyzed pre-conflict or their situation of oppression, as well as worsened by the oppression; the historic backwardness and illiteracy of early Palestinian society, combined with the resentments among the more elite classes over being dissed bigotedly by Europeans and European Jews, have created an atmosphere where rhetorical nonsense trumps effective action, excuses are tolerated and even encoursged, and it allows predators to function.

This incident illustrates that the society is still more driven by clan-tribal concerns than individual and national interests. (Look at the range of action devoted to the task -- entire communities motivated, complex negotiations, effective targetting and intimidation of things one is hostile at; this historically only happens politically (and intermittenly) when some religious sensibility (a clan-tribal totem) is upset --- 1929 Wailing Wall violence, the Hasmonean tunnel in 1990s, Sharon on Temple mount).

The focus on clan-tribal issues -- issues like a woman murdered for honor, which are backward and inimical to individual freedom and equality -- is paralyzing when a society is seeking its real rights in face of a hostile oppressor society that is way ahead of them in terms of seeking their own individual and national interests.

One ought not understate the chronic and even massive viciousness by which Israelis can or have pursued their aims against Palestinians but one can vastly overstate the level of effective resistance or counter-engagement offered, and it is due as much or more to internal social paralysis (illustrated by the social priorities present in the pathology of this episode) as to the machinations of colonial or nationalist predators.