1. And in recent days, several settler leaders have appealed for calm and lashed out in particular against the extremist elements among them. 2. Army generals held consultations with settler leaders and spoke with Mordechai, who was at the weekly Cabinet session in Jerusalem. 3. But it has produced accusations from settler leaders and Israeli civil-rights groups -- not normally political bedfellows -- that the government is trampling dangerously on human rights. 4. But settler leaders have detected an overall erosion in the numbers and are alarmed by the trend. 5. But the settler leaders, with whom Barak has tried to build a cooperative relationship, immediately expressed their disappointment. 6. But, settler leaders are typically coarse in their warnings. 7. In return, settler leaders promised to cooperate peacefully. 8. In so doing, he gave the settler leaders a way to proclaim victory and to calm down some of their more radical followers. 9. Jewish settler leaders strongly objected to a fence because they felt it would bring with it the uprooting or isolation of their communities inside the West Bank. 10. Kashriel betrays the image of the typical religious Zionist settler leader. |