What would you do if rockets were striking your country? RT if you agree that has the right to self-defense. pic.twitter.com/mNfY0Smx

In response, journalist Lauren Booth, Tony Blair’s half-sister-in-law, tweeted: “yes Palestinians do have the right to defend themselves a good point well made”.

Another response – “How can it be self-defence if you started it?” – could easily have come from either side, summing up the seemingly unbridgeable gulf between the pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli sides as the argue over the conflict across various forms of media.