TEL AVIV - Knesset Member Arieh Eldad (National Union) says he is determined to foil the upcoming Gaza and northern West Bank pullout, and warns the disengagement plan is bound to lead to violence.
"Jewish blood will flow in the summer," Eldad told Ynet, and added pullout objectors are determined to reach Gaza communities slated for evacuation despite an IDF ban.
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"We will cut the fences wherever we encounter them," he said. "If we need to go through Arab villages, we'll travel through them in order to reach Gush Katif."
A week ago, Eldad embarked on a protest march
through communities slated for evacuation, in a bid to start a mass protest movement. Following a week of walking, he sounds more realistic, yet his determination to thwart the pullout has not waned.
"I didn't think the masses would join (the march,) but I hoped to create a snowball effect," he said.
The move does not aim to bring down the government or alter public opinion, but rather, keep the anti-pullout battle going, Eldad said.
"Sharon is trying to show that it's a done deal," he said. "Regrettably, some people are listening to him. Even within the Yesha Council
they're openly saying 'guys, the battle is over'."
The march, however, is meant to convey the opposite impression, Eldad says.
"Nothing is over," he said.
'Every democracy allows citizens to protest'
The plan to foil the pullout calls for 100,000 people to hit the roads and assume positions in Gush Katif and the northern West Bank, Eldad said. Blocking roads and obstructing security forces is part of the democratic game, he said.
"Every democracy allows citizens to protest as long as the struggle is non-violent," he said.
Pullout objectors should be blocking main roads and confining army and police forces to sensitive spots, so they are unable to take part in settlement evacuation, Eldad said.
"The security forces have no solution for tens of thousands of people sitting down," he said.
Some observers say Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will strive for a violent confrontation early on, in order to force settler leaders to call off anti-evacuation resistance, Eldad said.
"It's likely he will seek to create a very traumatic junction in the early days (of evacuation) in the hope we blink first," he said. "It's going to be very bad, I'm not optimistic regarding the summer. It will be such mayhem no one will know who's shooting at who."
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