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Settlers vow to fight PM's plan to quit West Bank
By Nadav Shragai
Tags: settlements, Ehud Olmert 

The "shelf agreement" that the Israeli government has proposed to the Palestinian Authority, whose details were released Sunday, would leave within Israel some 220,000 settlers living in 48 settlements in settlements blocs. This area, west of the separation fence, more-or-less overlaps the seven percent of land in Judea and Samaria that Israel will annex according to the "shelf agreement."

Another approximately 70,000 settlers in 74 settlements east of the fence will have to leave their homes, according to the agreement. Most of these settlements are hard-core ideological communities where opposition to evacuation is likely to be strong and perhaps even violent.

A 20-year resident of the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar and father of 10, Yigal Amitai, says he and his friends "don't need to be loved, and therefore the evacuation of Yitzhar will look like the evacuation of Umm al-Fahm [would]."
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"Remember, for example, Land Day," he said, referring to the sometimes violent protests in that large Arab city in central Israel.

Regarding evacuation, Amitai says: "When a prime minister is involved with only a few percentage points of support, I am not worried."

Moshe Maiersdorf of Tapuah in the northern West Bank, a settlement previously identified with the extremist Kach movement, says his settlement has a varied population and there will be "no single pattern" of response to evacuation.

"I will personally fight for my home as any normal person would. There will certainly not be any hugs around here."

Emily Amrusi, a mother of two living in Talmon near Ramallah, says the separation fence "humiliates" her, adding: "The decision-makers have placed me beyond the fence, not only geographically, but psychologically. She says that of Talmon's 200 residents, about half have come to terms with the fence but others are less compromising.

She concedes she is torn but "certainly does not" lean toward violence. She also says that she believes even the less compromising "will not lift a hand against a soldier."

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      2.   olmert 03:50  |  camil 13/08/08
      3.   Of course evacuation is simple 04:36  |  ian 13/08/08
      4.   60% of Israelis support this plan! 05:37  |  Jordan 13/08/08
      5.   another simple solution 05:38  |  potobac 13/08/08
      6.   USA should live under Native Indian Rule 05:44  |  Great White North 13/08/08
      7.   Settlers are the defenders of Israel 06:10  |  Steve 13/08/08
      8.   Why should Palestinians give their homes and land to Jews? 06:48  |  Edithann, USA 13/08/08
      9.   Since leaving Gaza has turned out to be such a great success... 06:48  |  Jewish State 13/08/08
      10.   Compartmentalized thinking 06:51  |  Natallie Durson 13/08/08
      11.   land robbers 06:52  |  bashar 13/08/08
      12.   You knew it would come down to it 06:54  |  Guy From NYC 13/08/08
      13.   Palestinian citizenship??? 06:55  |  jewish Grandma 13/08/08
      14.   Great White North 07:00  |  Natallie Durson 13/08/08
      15.   Not a Chance 07:17  |  Joe Klein 13/08/08
      16.   Uproot the settlers now 07:38  |  SJ 13/08/08
      17.   Settlers are Israel`s #1 EXISTENTIAL THREAT. OUT WITH THEM! 08:24  |  Ivar 13/08/08
      18.   Irrelevant 09:08  |  Mark of Lewiston 13/08/08
      19.   GUSH KATIF IS NOT LIKE JUDEA AND SAMARIA! CIVIL WAR IS COMING! 09:23  |  THE END OF THE LEFT 13/08/08
      20.   PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to remove more than 10,000 people... 09:25  |  amir 13/08/08
      21.   Why not Uganda? 09:40  |  Goy 13/08/08
      22.   Mental masturbation- It`s not going to happen 09:48  |  Dani 13/08/08
      23.   re physically impossible 10:15  |  JJ burke 13/08/08
      24.   to #6 11:50  |  Northern 13/08/08
      25.   legal? 11:53  |  fish 13/08/08
      26.   Settlers` Best Friends--the Palestinians! 12:46  |  US CITIZEN 13/08/08
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      30.   #16 one settler in tel aviv to another in judea 13:58  |  victor hardman 13/08/08
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      33.   and now to business, who is Olmert? 14:14  |  Whatever 13/08/08
      34.   # 32, READER 14:17  |  indrajaya 13/08/08
      35.   READER Gaza is already Judenrein. 14:32  |  PETER SM 13/08/08
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      37.   I was almost hooked 14:48  |  Mrs. Shocked from US 13/08/08
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      39.   To Northern 15:10  |  Mrs. from USA 13/08/08
      40.   There is a similarity 15:19  |  noor 13/08/08
      41.   indrajaya and PETER SM (two names seldom in the same header) 15:26  |  Reader 13/08/08
      42.   noor, no one escapes from Canada!!! 15:32  |  Reader 13/08/08
      43.   #28 VictorPaul returns to his favourite theme 15:35  |  Johnboy 13/08/08
      44.   # 41, READER 15:44  |  indrajaya 13/08/08
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      46.   # 30 Victor in Belfast and your point is 15:49  |  sj 13/08/08
      47.   #43 johnboy in his usual upside down remarks 15:54  |  victor hardman 13/08/08
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      49.   #6,Great White 16:15  |  A1 13/08/08
      50.   #27 indraaaa in Jarka 16:34  |  John Allen 13/08/08
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      57.   the Noor posts and hysterical reponses 17:39  |  xyz news 13/08/08
      58.   The Settlers are NOT Toys Olmert and Who ever ! 17:57  |  Akram Zekaria 13/08/08
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      60.   shelf agreement 18:15  |  zev 13/08/08
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      63.   To Edithann # 8 - Jewish people do not want homes of Arabs 19:22  |  Dolly 13/08/08
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      65.   Great White North - At least you ackn. that the Pals are native 21:13  |  Native 13/08/08
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