No one denies that the Palestinian people have a right to self-defense.

I want to address this one a little further. Not only are they denied the "right" to self defense, they are also denies the means for self defense. They aren't allowed to have a military, so anyone who does anything in defense of Palestine is called a terrorist. They aren't allowed to have weapons. There is no way the Palestinians can wage a legitimate war against their occupier, which is abundantly armed with the latest high tech weaponry, when they aren't even allowed to have any weapons at all. And when the government of another country tries to provide them with weapons, the governments of the US and Israel accuse the other countries of terrorism. So just how do you propose they should conduct their "self defense" under these circumstances?