11. Pinhas Wallerstein, a settler leader in the West Bank, warned that the planned Israeli army withdrawals will bring more violence. 12. Resigned to living now in a shrunken area of Israeli rule, settler leaders say they are planning to expand their community wherever they can. 13. Settler leaders are not without influence in Washington, where they traveled last week to meet friends and visit with American supporters. 14. Settlers leaders agreed to cooperate in the removal, but they met fierce resistance from a small community of religious settlers and second-generation settlers more radical than their parents. 15. Settler leaders described him as a friend who had helped them despite political differences over the agreements with the PLO. 16. Settler leaders have walked a fine line between distancing themselves from the militants at Maon and from the defense of their cause in general. 17. Settlers leaders praised him. 18. She referred to threats received by more moderate settler leaders, citing one in which a bullet was left on the windshield of a car. 19. Settler leaders deny that there is a stereotypical settler at all. 20. Settler leaders vowed a tough lobbying fight with the Cabinet and with the Parliament in a last-ditch attempt to block the agreements. |