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...Gaza settlements than the headline grabbing protests of a few. Like many others, he is reluctantly making a compensation deal with the government. Indeed, government officials tell Time the turning point may have been a series of clashes earlier this month that convinced many settlers that resisting the pullout would inevitably lead to violence. ?I don't like to admit it, but it's clear that Sharon is going to destroy this place,? says Debi Rosen, who works at the municipal council for the Gaza settlements...
...Still, the leaders of the settler movement haven't given up. They planned a massive protest march this week from Israel to Gaza. Sharon last week ordered the army to shut the entry checkpoint to Gaza to prevent protesters secreting themselves in the settlements in advance of the pullout. And by Monday, when the march began, police had already banned it, although settler leaders vowed to press ahead...
...Settler activists and their supporters among religious Zionist rabbis have urged soldiers to defy orders associated with the pullout, and appear to have had some success in isolated cases. But the authorities don't expect any significant mutiny, and the army soon begins two-week training periods for special house-evacuation teams of 17 soldiers each...
...have the foreign policy of this country dictated by terrorists." JOHN HOWARD, Australian Prime Minister, after Iraqi militants demanded a pullout of Australian troops in exchange for the release of engineer Douglas Wood...
...think the North Koreans have been, frankly, a little bit disappointed that people are not jumping up and down and running around with their hair on fire." CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, on the muted global reaction to North Korea's latest nuclear weapons disclosures and its pullout from multilateral disarmament talks...