1. At the fringes, Barak can expect the settler movement to attempt pre-emptive poaching on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem and dare him to balk them. 2. Aharon Domb, left, and Pinkhas Valershtein, leaders of the settlers movement Yesha, look over West Bank maps showing the effects of redeployment. 3. Both within and outside the settler movement, there is questioning of where to go following the assassination. 4. In contrast, the ideological core of the settler movement is digging roots ever deeper into the rocky hills. 5. On the living room wall is a portrait of a bearded rabbi who pioneered the national religious philosophy that provides much of the theoretical backing of the settler movement. 6. The assassination of Rabin, he warned, could work as a deadly boomerang against the settler movement. 7. The major opponent of the summit remains the settler movement, which is effective at conventional grassroots tactics. 8. The settler movement is also raising its voice. 9. The settler movement was strongly supported by the right-wing Likud party, which opposed withdrawal for political but not religious reasons. 10. They are among the most militant members of Gush Emunim, a settler movement that aggressively opposes ceding West Bank lands they regard as part of the Biblical Israel. |
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