Testifying to its Zionist ideals and the idiocy of its commanders, the IDF is searching for the Yitzhar settlers who cut down a dozen Palestinian trees near the Arab village of Burin in Samaria. The Jews were retaliating for continual infringements on their property by Arabs.
The Torah law indeed prohibits cutting down an enemy’s trees—but only because the besieging Jews must eventually slaughter the adult male population and take over their farms.
