advocated for resisting the occupation, 26 were non-violent, has been cited by historians such as Mark Tessler, Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor, Philip Mattar and others in comprehensive studies of Palestinians and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Of that intifada, which formally endorsed recourse to means of non-violent resistance against the occupation, Assaily stated that, "In 1967 they (Israel) defeated the armies of three countries in six days, but they [could not] defeat the intifadah." The lesson he drew was that Israel had a harder time coping with non-violent opposition than with an actual war. Practical techniques of non-violent resistance Assaily recounts episodes of how he advises people struck by settler violence to respond: Once Israeli soldiers razed all the trees in a community's olive grove. So I convened all of the families involved and told them that the proper response was not to react violently but to persevere. They had to replant the trees. The first time they did this, all of the seedlings were torn out once more, but on the second occasion we did things differently. To replant them again we bided our time until Israel celebrated the Earth Day festival, when everyone plants a tree. I invited everyone to set about planting trees on that day and no one could raise objections, given the occasion. In the end the soldiers let us keep our trees in exchange for an undertaking to no longer plant any more trees. This was a good result, achieved without any need to throw stones, something which would have given them a pretext for attacking the (local) population." Another method is to ask children to bring to school Fanta or Coca-Cola bottles, or cans, and then to fill them with pebbles, customarily used in throwing stones at the Israeli soldiers. The purpose of the exercise is to show children how to make a rudimentary musical instrument, in this case a maraca. He advises them to use these musical devices in front of Israeli soldiers manning checkpoints, rather than throwing stones at them. Peaceful resistance to the confiscation of his property Nafez lives on the northern outskirts of Hebron. His land lay some 70 metres south of the Givat Harsina Israeli settlement, and his home 100 metres away. In response to the first Intifada, Harsina settlers built a security fence, and then, in 2000 gradually expanded, felling the olive trees and levelling the ground until