"My God, Israel is the enemy of mankind," he wailed.
No, Sir, Israel is not the enemy of mankind, it is the people who are consumed by righteous retribution, sweat misery and breed violence and are not satisfied until others suffer worse than they do.
Tom has witnessed the Indians scalping his father while his father lay wounded.
This was following the Crooked Walk.
Indians rose up and killed every white person they could, even those who had befriended, fed and sheltered them for many winters, as the Quicks had.