On the face of it, it had trouble written all over it — an Israeli settler gatecrashing a Palestinian wedding party on the West Bank is something that would usually end only in tears.

But Yoni Sharon, who lives in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Eldad, just south of Jerusalem, has a secret weapon, and it’s not a gun.

Actually he is a talented musician who is a virtuoso on the darbuka drum, and one day last week he was on his way home from a gig and heard the sounds of a Palestinian wedding.

On his Facebook page, he wrote: “I had to go to the wedding”.

He turned up, darbuka under his arm, sat down and began to play, fierce, thrumming rhythms that sent everyone to the dance floor, crowding around the be-kippah-ed musician, cheering, singing and dancing.

Quite how he managed to post a video of this onto his Facebook page while playing is a Middle East mystery (we guess a Palestinian friend held the camera for him), but in case anyone was in any doubt that Yoni Sharon had become a dove, he was quick to disabuse them.

He wrote: “For those that know me, my views on the Middle East conflict are already known, don’t worry,” which he further explained: “I sit with Arabs and we laugh together about the pluralistic Israeli left that thinks it can bring peace from the cafes in Tel Aviv.

“The entirety of my values (the family unit, etc.) as a religious and conservative person are much more similar to my Palestinian neighbours than those of the secular and promiscuous left,” he added.