The two Israelis were originally planning to jump an Arab citizen but abandoned that idea and decided to attack a mosque instead.
Zionism is not a single monolithic idea but an amalgam of often competing ideas and we ought to remember that tensions never lie far from the surface.
A day after Jewish extremists set the Palestinian town of Huwara ablaze, Otzma Yehudit MKs remain belligerent, and avoid condemning the violence.
Shlom Asiraich has been working with New Jersey-based World of Tzedakah to raise funds for Israeli Jewish extremists imprisoned for serious crimes.
The vandalism extends a pattern of attacks on Christian sites in Israel.