Yehuda Etzion has since been active in pressing for the construction of the Third Temple in place of the Dome of the Rock on the Haram al-Sharif. Though said to be not exactly repentant for his own past, he did make a public protest over the Duma arson attack, in which all but one member of a Palestinian family died when their home was fire-bombed by settlers. At the same time, he expressed sympathy for the motives governing the arsonists.