The IOF are war criminals aiming to incite a new intifada. Their  half century occupation of Jerusalem violates the Geneva and Hague Conventions. Even as a pacifist, I recognise that, as Jewish Princeton Professor, Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, affirms Palestinian anti-colonial factions have an inalienable legal right to resistance against the belligerent occupant, Israel which is denying them their fundamental right to self-determination. .

As holocaust survivor, Gabor Mate, reflected: "The Palestinians use tunnels? So did my heroes, the poorly armed fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto. Unlike Israel, Palestinians lack Apache helicopters, guided drones, jet fighters with bombs, laser-guided artillery. Out of impotent defiance, they fire inept rockets, causing terror for innocent Israelis but rarely physical harm. With such a gross imbalance of power, there is no equivalence of culpability."