"This is anti-Semitism," Ofir Dayan, a pro-Israel student at the Ivy Leauge University, said.

There is no need for Israel to annex Judea and Samaria if it wants to apply Israeli law there – it already has that right because of the laws dating back to the British era.

The three most common stereotypes encapsulate the triangular denunciation of the Jews: They dominate the economy; they are more loyal to the State of Israel than they are to their continent; and talk of their suffering during the Holocaust.

Mohammed al-Shenbari, 24, finds the “balancing point” between two objects to make them stand in a way that appears to defy the law of gravity. “You just need to know the fulcrum of the object and you get it,” he says.

Israel’s efforts to generate deterrence have succeeded in ensuring wide gaps between hostilities, as well as in minimizing their damage, but they cannot produce a constant lull.