21.   Some settler leaders have warned that militants could take matters into their own hands.

22.   The hard-core elements of the right wing have crumbled, and many on the right stand behind the more moderate position of the settler leaders.

23.   Their removal was part of an unprecedented deal worked out between veteran settler leaders and Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

24.   Pinchas Wallerstein, a settler leader, said he would ask Netanyahu to cancel the freeze on building new settlements imposed by the previous government.

25.   Pinchas Wallerstein, a settler leader, said that some work had been conducted secretly over the past two weeks and was completed Thursday morning.

26.   Other settler leaders were present as well.

27.   Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi said the settler leaders were showing their true colors.

28.   Police said they believed it was an accident, while settler leaders portrayed the incident as a terror attack.

29.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broke off a meeting with Jewish settler leaders Thursday after he got word that his son Yair had fallen in kindergarten and split his lip.

30.   Pinchas Wallerstein, a settler leader, said he would ask Netanyahu to cancel the freeze on building new settlements imposed by the previous leftist government.