Really, the Zealots rose after more than a century of Roman occupation. The irony about the ‘Jesus was a community organizer’ meme, is that he wasn’t trying for political power, that was why the Zealots and the Pharisees, could not stomach him; he was striving for ethical reformation.
The Irgun arose after the pogroms in the East directed by Petlura (and other provocations by Stalin) and after an explictly anti Jewish leader came to power in Germany, proceeded to deliberately murder all of the Jews in Europe.
The Stern gang rose up under similar condition.
The PLO on the other hand, was just an extension of the already present dhimmification strategy or Arabs than began with the siege of Yathrib (Medina)and Khaybar back around 610 AD.
Represented later by the Wahhabi resurgence, the protofascist nationalism of the Golden Crescent, Haj Amin Husseini and co. Not surprising that the manager of the Munich massacre was the son of an aide to Husseini, whose uncle lead the organization. Alas, the ‘moderate’ party in Palestine, is none other than the fundraiser for that endeavor; Abu Mazen, aka Mahmoud Abbas
