Violence feared in last stand at two West Bank enclaves
Taking a page from Palestinian protests, hardline Jewish settlers masked their faces with bandannas as they defiantly confronted Israeli troops on Sunday outside a doomed West Bank settlement. Troops and radical youths exchanged blows and insults in a bizarre cat-and-mouse chase across parched fields and olive groves, foreshadowing a possibly fierce last stand by rightist opponents of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement plan.”Full Story