Simultaneously, in the preceding months, radical Israeli settlers launched attacks on their Palestinian neighbors, including setting vehicles, homes, and a mosque on fire.

This is the only way that five million Israeli Jews will end being held hostage by some thousands of radical settlers.

The Clinton Administration today praised the steps Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin took on Sunday to curb radical nationalist settlers.

To him, many radical settlers have isolated themselves from mainstream Israel, sanctimoniously holding themselves forth as the only true Zionists.

It differs, she argues, from price tag incidents which may be dismissed as the handiwork of a few radical settlers.

Ehud Barak's soldiers, it has been leaked, were going to crack down on some radical settlers who refuse to evacuate their outpost, called the Maon Farm.

Also, Mr. Kashriel said he would have a hard time controlling radical settlers if the leftist members of Mr. Barak's coalition antagonized them.

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.

It came five days after a bus bombing in Tel Aviv and a day after Palestinian gunmen killed a prominent radical settler and his wife.

Prime Minister Sharon must not bow to pressure from radical settlers and movements, as this would ensure that Israel could only develop within its biblical borders.