Louis Theroux

And then within the concentric ring of that, you have armies following orders who have this slightly guilty way about when you interact with them sometimes.

Not always, but sometimes there's a bit like, unfortunately, yes, we have to stop you.

And they're just, as it were, like the Scottish guy sent out to Burma following orders.

And then you have the engine room, which is the fanatical ideological settler who is often not from abroad.

Like it might be a homegrown Israeli and they are following the will of God as they see it and completely...

committed to the vision of recovering the land.

You know, when I talked to Ari Abramovich, he was from Texas originally, but his whole thing was like, if people just understood, like this is going to create peace for everyone, like every nation, like his idea was like...

And they don't talk about recovering the Temple Mount, but that's always slightly in the background, this sort of messianic idea that, and then if we can just build the temple on the Dome of the Rock, on the Temple Mount, then I don't quite know the theology of it, but the idea is, and then there'll be peace on earth for millions of years.

So they see themselves as idealists.

Well, that's a really good point because when you started speaking, it was like, these worlds are so different.

One is primarily financial.

Those influencers online are mainly money motivated.

Their outrage is often almost a kind of- Confected.

a confected, almost a shop window to what's behind, which is an attempt to sell a kind of dodgy financial product, an app or an online course or something.

Whereas the settlers, the ones that I was meeting, they live almost in an impoverished way, some of them.

Like one of the characters I met was called Malkiel and he's a horse wrangler living in a tent in a caravan.

It was like a gypsy.

Yeah.

Looking like a lot of them look like cowboys.

They have this sort of frontier, almost ragged.