The way I look at it, mainly because of the strong military ship-line the Zoners have at their disposal for using. It was only a matter of time before some break-away military type zoner faction eventually surfaced, one that won't keep bending over, bowing down to every other faction whims telling them what to do. You can argue about their peace loving flower power lore, but things change over time.
And I think it's laughable the official zoner faction is asking ZA to remove their base from near that JH. Err, didn't they have a base near a JH also in Baffin that caused a lot of controversy until recently, because it killed everything on sight? Double standards or what!