…In the minds of today’s teenage rebels, the entirety of the Religious Nationalist camp is illegitimate. These are not extremists within the camp but deserters from it, living in, really, a fantasy world of wanting to destroy Israel so that King Messiah would replace it. That was eh graffiti on that burnt house in Duma.

They constitute a microscopic percentage of patriotic settler youth who are bent on service in the IDF and increasingly constitute the next generation of officers.

In other words, as Achan was the only one among the twelve tribes to disobey the order to take no booty — as Avraham took no booty during his hostage rescue mission to Damascus – so today a handful of off-the-rails teenagers are held up as representatives of the entire State of Israel by its enemies…