I Hate to Beat a Dead Horse, But...

Check out this article on Ha'aretz, entitled: Sa Nur settlers: Two Shin Bet provocateurs outed .

In many ways, the Shabak's use of agent provocateurs to portray Jews of religious and nationalist leanings in a negative light is similar to the "Palestinians" use of terror as a political weapon...

So long as it produces results, there's no reason not to... (even if it is wrong)

In spite of all of the declarations by the Shabak that they are not making use of agent provocateurs, it continues to happen, and the government does nothing. Again, a similarity to the government's response to dealing with "Palestinian" terrorism.

One would imagine that if the government were truly bothered by either, they would take steps to ensure that neither continued, but alas...