11.   Similarly, Israeli troops are braced to confront militant Jewish settlers, while Palestinian police are prepared to battle radical Islamist opponents of a peace pact.

12.   The Committee for Safety on the Roads, a group of militant Jewish settlers in the Hebron area linked to the banned anti-Arab Kach party, claimed responsibility.

13.   The Committee for Safety on the Roads, a group of militant Jewish settlers in the Hebron area linked to the banned anti-Arab Kach movement, claimed responsibility.

14.   These positions are not so far apart as to exclude compromise, which is apparently what the militant settlers fear.

15.   Under pressure to stop their growth, the Israeli government last fall evicted militant settlers from about a dozen new outposts they had established.

16.   Other Palestinians said it gave them too little, and militant Jewish settlers vowed to do anything necessary to scuttle it.

17.   Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warned Tuesday that police would take steps against militant settlers who praised the shooting spree by Baruch Goldstein.

18.   But some Palestinians said it gave them too little, and militant Jewish settlers vowed to do anything possible to scuttle it.

19.   Federman is a well-known leader of the militant Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron and of the violent anti-Arab Kach movement, outlawed a decade ago.

20.   He fears that such a move could set off large street protests by militant settlers.