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Public tolerance for the settlers has declined, and even more significantly, fear of them has disappeared.

Amos Harel

(Israelis) have been arguing with us for four months over the security of the settlers. Now it is clear who is in danger.

Jibril Rajoub

This is not like the situation of Jewish settlers who had to be dragged out of their homes.

Shlomo Dror

The strongest images were those of the settlers and soldiers embracing and crying together.

Dore Gold

What Settlers is trying to use the bridge issue as a wedge to force the highway district to take the road drainage that's been going in there for better than four decades, and find a better solution for it.

Craig Quintana

We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.

Robert Owens

The settlements must be evacuated; the settlers cannot remain.

Shimon Peres

If this thing goes off with fairly few hitches, it means it could go smoothly in the West Bank, as well. It will create a precedent that Israel, with very little resistance, removed settlers and redrew its borders.

Michael Oren

We are trained to fight in battle against enemies, not against Jews -- either settlers or other Jews.

Moshe Yaalon

We shouldn't forget how terrifying untamed landscape was to early settlers. From their perspective, mankind was put here in the New World to conquer the wilderness.

Tracy Kidder

We'll create institutions, we'll create accountability and transparency in dealing with the land that's going to be evacuated by the settlers.

Rafiq Husseini

The withdrawal of the [Israeli] army and settlers from the Gaza Strip does not signal the end of the occupation.

Mahmoud Abbas

The Zionists should prepare ... bags to collect the remains of their soldiers and settlers because we are going to hit in the depths of the entity.

Abu Abdullah

The (settlers') goal was to create a legacy, a trauma that was so big ... that no Israeli government would dare to do something similar in the future.

Nahum Barnea

You can't say it is the red-coated rider on a black horse going through the plains checking out settlers anymore. Crime has evolved.

Bill Mackay

In his spirit, in his soul, he admires the settlers and no one respects them more than he.

Uri Dan

We consider the presence of the settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip illegal. Until the time that they will leave, they should be disarmed.

Ahmed Qureia

We understand when the international media fall into the trap of the Jewish settlers and run live coverage of the evacuation.

Abdel Bari Atwan

The spirit of exploration that brought European settlers to the Americas lives on today through the work being done by the men and women at NASA.

Jeanne Zeidler

It seems that settlers are able to terrorize Palestinians and destroy their trees and crops with impunity.

John Dugard

That was big business — almost the only way the settlers had of getting cash money.

Bernard Yokel

All in all this is a victory for the security forces and for the settlers.

Dan Harel

Why doesn't Israel disarm its settlers who shoot and kill Palestinians?

Ahmed Qurie

For more than 30 years, ... the settlers' dream has overwhelmed the dream of secular Israelis. Day in and day out, the vision of Greater Israel and the reign of the Messiah crushed the hope of being a free people and building a just society.

Amos Oz

We want to get to the point where we can afford to hire someone to run it ... By 2007 we hope to set up the Art Market again even bigger and better than before. I have every anticipation that this will be a very exciting opportunity for us. Eventually we would like to have it not just along Queens Way but along Settlers Landing Road, because it is going to become a more pedestrian-friendly street.

Gaynette Larue