1.   And he visited Hebron to show solidarity with the clutch of militant Jewish settlers there.

2.   Arafat has maintained that he faces a security risk in the West Bank from militant Jewish settlers there.

3.   As the demolition proceeded, Shmuel Ben-Yishai, a militant settler, taunted the police and soldiers through a loudspeaker giving them a Nazi salute.

4.   A Palestinian farm worker was shot dead by Jewish settlers near Nablus in the West Bank, an area where militant settlers live close to volatile Palestinian neighborhoods.

5.   But for militant settlers, that is a small comfort in what they view as a fundamental betrayal by the government.

6.   For example, some say the extremely militant Jewish settlers in Hebron and Kiryat Arba, who clash constantly with Palestinians and with Israeli authorities, should be evacuated.

7.   Hebron, with its cluster of militant Jewish settlers, was the most difficult issue of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations last summer.

8.   Militant Jewish settlers have called on Israeli troops to disobey orders to withdraw from Arab cities.

9.   Militant Israeli settlers in Hebron vowed to block the agreement from being put into effect.

10.   Others would retain them, still others do not know how the most militant settlers should be handled.