REPORTER: Elizabeth Tadic
To travel the Gaza Strip is a journey through two vastly different worlds. The squalor endured by Palestinians exists a mere stone's throw away from the leafy comfort of Israel's Gush Katif settlement on the Mediterranean coast.
But the tranquillity here is misleading. Israel's imminent withdrawal from Gaza means these settlers are now facing eviction. But there are no signs of packing in this heavily guarded community. In fact, a whole new suburb has sprung up.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): Welcome, come in please. OK, let's see the house. It's a new house. It's still being constructed. We're planning to build a second floor, god willing. It's blocked for the moment. When we have more money we'll extend, god willing.
It's important to see that up here... it's actually our protection against missiles. These are metal boards.
18 months ago David Piamenta received a permit to build a new house, one of 22 permits in this settlement alone.
But now Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is offering compensation of about $250,000 to $400,000 to move out by August or he'll be forced out and receive 30% less.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): Sharon is not the land lord, not the owner of this land. There is God above him. And like the time when God gave us this land, the same applies today. If he decides we won't be here, we won't. If he decides we will, then we will. It's not up to Sharon.
David is a religious studies teacher. He moved here 4.5 year ago with his wife Merav and their two children. She had just completed her national service in Gaza and insisted they come.
MERAV PIAMENTA, (Translation): I fell in love with this place, the people, the scenery, the quiet, the sea, it all suited me very well. These are been the best two years of my life.
To make the evacuation less painful, the government is also offering to relocate the settler community as a whole to other less volatile areas in Israel proper.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): We're not a sack of potatoes, we cannot just be moved. Our work is here and so are our children. Both have to be taken into consideration. It's not that simple to move people after 30 years. I really hope that day never comes. We're putting in a lot of effort and praying hard to avert it and hopefully we'll succeed.
But not all settlers are united in their opposition to the pullout. Just a few blocks away from David's house, Dateline discovers a family that can't wait to leave Gaza.
Meir Rottenstein, his wife and children have been living in fear of being hit by rockets and mortars ever since the second Palestinian uprising began four years ago. For them, the news of the disengagement plan was a godsend.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: The government came out and said that we have to move out from Gaza. For me it was like a present. Because life like this I cannot live. Even if I'm not thinking about myself, I'm thinking about my kids. I don't want to wait and see what happens to them if they are around the shooting, if they are hurt or me. This is not life like this, to live in fear.
And now things have gone from bad to worse. Because he wants to leave, he's been made a pariah by this tightly knit community.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): As far as we're concerned, this man is an outcast. We don't kick him, or hit him, God forbid. We are not violent towards him. When he's out in the street, we know he is no longer a friend.
Speaking out has cost Meir his livelihood. He once made a decent living selling electrical goods from this shop. But because of his views, he's been boycotted by the community and hasn't had a customer for 12 months.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: When someone from the council heard me speak about this so he came to my shop -- speak about this he came to shop and he said, "You shut your mouth, and don't talk with any television and from this day on I have no job. I am opening the shop and saying to the people to buy and nobody coming.
All that's left for him now is to catalogue his stock in preparation for compensation.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: In the last month they have made me feel like Gush Katif is something like putting a knife in the heart. And I want to take this knife out!
Now his shop has been vandalised and neighbours will hardly talk to him. So today he and his family are taking a tour organised by Shuvi, an Israeli peace group which is keen to help the settlers start a new life elsewhere. As the only person to openly say he wants to leave the settlement, Meir is now firmly in the media spotlight.
According to government statistics, a third of the families here have quietly accepted the compensation offer to evacuate. But for fear of ending up like Meir, only four families are on the bus.
TOUR GUIDE: We would like to thank the four families, the four brave families, who decided to join this tour today.
But the settlers who refuse to leave Gush Katif say they are the ones being harassed and believe Meir Rottenstein is behind it.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): A day or two ago I got a call from the Shuvi organisation. Who got our phone numbers from him so they can harass us into leaving this place.
DORIT ELDAR, SHUVI MEMBER: We have not been harassing people that's not what we do.
Dorit Eldar is a member of Shuvi, the Israeli peace organisation. She's adamant that Shuvi has not harassed anyone but simply wants to assist those wishing to leave Gaza.
DORIT ELDAR: They're a lot that cannot express it publicly because the few that expressed it paid such a heavy social price for that. That there are many more that we speak to, you know, very quietly, and they voice a very similar opinion but they cannot express it publicly because they're they can't pay the price and because they're afraid of losing jobs and because they think, you know, that the neighbours will stop speaking to them and because the children will be beaten up at school.
They've arrived at Eshkol, in the Negev Desert, to speak with the local council which is promoting an alternative site for Gush Katif residents to put down new roots.
Uri Naamati is the mayor of Eshkol. He is excited about the prospect of expanding his city by 10,000 residents.
URI NAAMATI, MAYOR OF ESHKOL, (Translation): We want to get to 20,000 inhabitants an the disengagement of Gush Katif is an opportunity for our municipality.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN, (Translation): I would like to know... what kind of employment is available in agriculture, in farming... I might decide to change my job, own a farm, or be in agriculture. I also had this idea, but only if it's possible... chicken farming for eggs, for a certain quota of eggs...
URI NAAMATI (Translation): Let me put it this way. We don't encourage chicken farming here. Our municipality is based on agriculture, working the land and greenhouses.
Meir and his family leave the meeting disheartened that the area did not live up to their expectations.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: It is good that they took us, but this is not for me.
REPORTER: Why?
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: Because the place is good but it's far and I can't find a job.
Unlike Meir, Schlomo Wassertil is a Gush Katif settler who refuses to leave.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL, (Translation): Halil, just take out the dirt. That's all. No need to clean it all up. You're wasting time. We're leaving soon.
He spent 22 years building up his greenhouse business and sells flowers all over the world. These exports have made Schlomo a wealthy businessman. He employs Arab workers from nearby Khan Yunis refugee camp and other cheap labour from Thailand and Nepal. Ironically they'll all be out of work if he's evicted.
REPORTER: Is it possible to move all this and put it somewhere else? Big job, you will need many truck many trucks.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL: Many trucks, many work and not enough time. Not enough time. So I told you we are staying here. That's all.
Despite his thriving business, life isn't comfortable for Schlomo. In his office, he keeps a collection of rockets and mortars. More than 20 have hit his greenhouse.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL: We have the bomb here, come just on the windows of the house directly.
Last year this female Thai worker was killed in a Palestinian mortar attack. But despite this, he's adamant he won't be moving.
REPORTER: What do you think when you hear from the international community saying that the settlements are illegal under international law? What do you say to that?
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL: Do you listen? It's our neighbour. The Arab, the Arab peoples. In the next maybe six months if we go out, he become very hungry.
Schlomo's reaction is typical of many settlers who deny they're living on Palestinian land. They also don't regard their presence in the region as an impediment to peace with the Palestinians.
After producing three generations here, fighting for Israel in all its wars, and keeping the greater Israel ideal alive for 28 years, he cannot accept that he's about to be turfed out.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL (Translation): Sharon's plan is a very bad one. A very bad one. I'm sorry to speak like that about my PM who is doing such a terrible thing in Israel. There is no other country in the world that would take some of its citizens and throw them out of their homes with nothing. This doesn't exist for no matter what reason, even the most justifiable one.
Schlomo will not be leaving with nothing but stands to lose 30% of his compensation if he stays and fights. Today Shlomo will join a mass protest about the forthcoming evictions which the government calls 'disengagement'. Shlomo's banner reads: "I am also engaging. Sharon is tearing the nation apart."
Along the way, he spots some of his friends from the police force. As thousands of supporters come, in solidarity with the settlers, the police and soldiers keep a watchful eye. 10,000 soldiers and 18,000 police are being specially trained to remove the settlers from their homes and deal with hardcore opponents.
After much debate, the Israeli Government has decided not to destroy the homes
when the settlers go, leaving them for the Palestinians as a goodwill gesture. The thought of having their Arab neighbours move into their houses adds fuel to the fire.
REPORTER: In hindsight, was it a mistake to allow the settlements to be built in Gaza?
RAANAN GISSE, PM ADVISOR: No, no. When we built the settlements it was a different situation. Things change in the Middle East, this is a rapidly changing environment. We're talking about 30, 20 years ago when the settlements did serve a security purpose at the time.
Ra'anan Gisse is Prime Minister Sharon's adviser and media spokesperson.
RAANAN GISSE: The benefit was that, as long as these settlements were there, you know, and were defending and they were holding - they created a... sort of cut Gaza into three parts. So there was no possibility of the terrorist groups to unite or to move together and operate against Israel.
It's a small area. Now the situation has changed. There's a new leadership and that leadership wants to move on the road to peace.
But as the Israeli Government prepares to withdraw from Gaza, plans to expand settlements around Jerusalem and the West Bank are already under way.
Here in Bethlehem, Israel's security barrier cuts through Palestinian territory to ensure the settlement on the hill, Gush Etzion, remains in Israel and becomes part of Jerusalem. Jerusalem's borders appear to be expanding.
REPORTER: Are you sacrificing Gaza so you can continue expanding settlements in the West Bank?
RAANAN GISSE: We're not expanding settlements in the West Bank. We are establishing defensive lines. If the Palestinians don't want to take... to move against terror, then that's where those defensive lines will stay for as long as they don't - as they miss this opportunity. Now this opportunity may not come back again. So it's up to them, if this will be the end or the beginning.
REPORTER: OK, so you're pulling out of Gaza now. When will you be pulling out of the West Bank?
RAANAN GISSE: Look, we're pulling out of one of four settlements in Samaria, and then we will stand and wait. If the Palestinians fulfil their obligations and fight terrorism, and bring about a cessation of incitement to violence, as they pledge they will do, then we can move to the first phase of the roadmap to peace.
It's these remarks that are guaranteed to enrage these protesters. Tonight, tens of thousands have come to Jerusalem to oppose any evictions and any negotiations with the Palestinians.
These are Lubavitch Jews, an influential worldwide Jewish religious movement. For them, ceding what they see as God-given land to the Palestinians is a crime against the Jewish people. And they will not tolerate any detour from the ideal of a greater Israel, which stretches from the Nile River to the Euphrates.
They say they'll stage a bloody showdown that will leave soldiers and settlers dead in the streets.
RABBI YOSEF DAYAN: This is the evening where we become radicals. Today we are not going to play any more games. These people, these young people are going to be radicalising themselves and they're going to do things that nobody have seen in the country.
REPORTER: What kind of things?
RABBI YOSEF DAYAN: What kind of things? We are going to prevent Sharon from carrying out his plan. We are not going to allow him to uproot the beautiful creation in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.
REPORTER: And how are you going to do this?
RABBI YOSEF DAYAN: It depends, it depends on what are going to be the means used by the government. And assuming that there are going to be soldiers also, sick soldiers, carrying out weapons to uproot civilian people, we are going to receive them with weapons, of course.
Rabbi Yosef Dayan issues a chilling warning to Ariel Sharon. He says if the Prime Minister goes ahead with the disengagement plan, he will suffer the same fate as one of his predecessors, Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by an Israeli for talking peace with the Palestinians. Dayan says he placed a curse on Rabin.
RABBI YOSEF DAYAN: I carried out the Pulsa Denoura against Rabin. One month later he was assassinated. By whom I have no idea, but he was killed. There are many people wishing the dead of Sharon and I said he is right, I am among them. I really will him to die.
Schlomo Wassetil has also come along tonight and expresses his delight in the support of the extreme right.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL, (Translation): Well, first of all, I'm very happy that the Lubavitch Jews entered the picture, because if they're on our side, the whole atmosphere in the country will change. These Chasidic Jews are part of the sect which is very joyful and well accepted. They know how to keep on the right path and are very devoted to it.
I think they'll be very helpful in creating the right atmosphere, as they dare to say what we're too inhibited to say.
SPEAKER: You are setting a tremendous, horrendous precedent. If you are going to force Jews to chase Jews out of Israel, what's going to stop Germany and Italy, and France and Russia from chasing Jews out of their homes.
Like this soldier, the troops that may eventually be used to evict the settlers are threatening revolt.
SOLDIER (Translation): Sharon created a situation that forces us to be on a collision course with the IDF, the army we all love. If the army abides by this order, this will be it's downfall.
These soldiers have already been dismissed from the army for disobeying orders but tonight they're being celebrated as heroes.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL, (Translation): It's not about peace. There won't be peace. It's clear there's no peace now and there won't be, it's not on the horizon.
MERAV PIAMENTA, (Translation): I'll do my best to stop it from happening because it'll be really terrible if it does. Where will I draw the line? I'll follow our leaders. Whatever the rabbis, the head of the council, or the leaders of the struggle say, I'll abide by what they say.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): It'll cause anger, pain and a great rift. It'll be very hard. They're gearing up for it very forcefully. 18,000 policemen without badges, with no accountability, will be allowed to hit us. It makes you feel like public enemy number one. We're the enemy now, it's a terrible feeling.
MAN, (Translation): Why are you filming him?
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN, (Translation): So we have a souvenir for when we're not here. So we can remember this crumby place we've left.
For Meir and his family, with compensation on the way, they can finally get ready to leave.
MAN, (Translation): He should have left 20 years ago, not now.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: My wish is to go from here as fast as I can so that I can find a job, build a new life some place else and continue to live the usual life.
To travel the Gaza Strip is a journey through two vastly different worlds. The squalor endured by Palestinians exists a mere stone's throw away from the leafy comfort of Israel's Gush Katif settlement on the Mediterranean coast.
But the tranquillity here is misleading. Israel's imminent withdrawal from Gaza means these settlers are now facing eviction. But there are no signs of packing in this heavily guarded community. In fact, a whole new suburb has sprung up.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): Welcome, come in please. OK, let's see the house. It's a new house. It's still being constructed. We're planning to build a second floor, god willing. It's blocked for the moment. When we have more money we'll extend, god willing.
It's important to see that up here... it's actually our protection against missiles. These are metal boards.
18 months ago David Piamenta received a permit to build a new house, one of 22 permits in this settlement alone.
But now Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is offering compensation of about $250,000 to $400,000 to move out by August or he'll be forced out and receive 30% less.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): Sharon is not the land lord, not the owner of this land. There is God above him. And like the time when God gave us this land, the same applies today. If he decides we won't be here, we won't. If he decides we will, then we will. It's not up to Sharon.
David is a religious studies teacher. He moved here 4.5 year ago with his wife Merav and their two children. She had just completed her national service in Gaza and insisted they come.
MERAV PIAMENTA, (Translation): I fell in love with this place, the people, the scenery, the quiet, the sea, it all suited me very well. These are been the best two years of my life.
To make the evacuation less painful, the government is also offering to relocate the settler community as a whole to other less volatile areas in Israel proper.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): We're not a sack of potatoes, we cannot just be moved. Our work is here and so are our children. Both have to be taken into consideration. It's not that simple to move people after 30 years. I really hope that day never comes. We're putting in a lot of effort and praying hard to avert it and hopefully we'll succeed.
But not all settlers are united in their opposition to the pullout. Just a few blocks away from David's house, Dateline discovers a family that can't wait to leave Gaza.
Meir Rottenstein, his wife and children have been living in fear of being hit by rockets and mortars ever since the second Palestinian uprising began four years ago. For them, the news of the disengagement plan was a godsend.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: The government came out and said that we have to move out from Gaza. For me it was like a present. Because life like this I cannot live. Even if I'm not thinking about myself, I'm thinking about my kids. I don't want to wait and see what happens to them if they are around the shooting, if they are hurt or me. This is not life like this, to live in fear.
And now things have gone from bad to worse. Because he wants to leave, he's been made a pariah by this tightly knit community.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): As far as we're concerned, this man is an outcast. We don't kick him, or hit him, God forbid. We are not violent towards him. When he's out in the street, we know he is no longer a friend.
Speaking out has cost Meir his livelihood. He once made a decent living selling electrical goods from this shop. But because of his views, he's been boycotted by the community and hasn't had a customer for 12 months.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: When someone from the council heard me speak about this so he came to my shop -- speak about this he came to shop and he said, "You shut your mouth, and don't talk with any television and from this day on I have no job. I am opening the shop and saying to the people to buy and nobody coming.
All that's left for him now is to catalogue his stock in preparation for compensation.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: In the last month they have made me feel like Gush Katif is something like putting a knife in the heart. And I want to take this knife out!
Now his shop has been vandalised and neighbours will hardly talk to him. So today he and his family are taking a tour organised by Shuvi, an Israeli peace group which is keen to help the settlers start a new life elsewhere. As the only person to openly say he wants to leave the settlement, Meir is now firmly in the media spotlight.
According to government statistics, a third of the families here have quietly accepted the compensation offer to evacuate. But for fear of ending up like Meir, only four families are on the bus.
TOUR GUIDE: We would like to thank the four families, the four brave families, who decided to join this tour today.
But the settlers who refuse to leave Gush Katif say they are the ones being harassed and believe Meir Rottenstein is behind it.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): A day or two ago I got a call from the Shuvi organisation. Who got our phone numbers from him so they can harass us into leaving this place.
DORIT ELDAR, SHUVI MEMBER: We have not been harassing people that's not what we do.
Dorit Eldar is a member of Shuvi, the Israeli peace organisation. She's adamant that Shuvi has not harassed anyone but simply wants to assist those wishing to leave Gaza.
DORIT ELDAR: They're a lot that cannot express it publicly because the few that expressed it paid such a heavy social price for that. That there are many more that we speak to, you know, very quietly, and they voice a very similar opinion but they cannot express it publicly because they're they can't pay the price and because they're afraid of losing jobs and because they think, you know, that the neighbours will stop speaking to them and because the children will be beaten up at school.
They've arrived at Eshkol, in the Negev Desert, to speak with the local council which is promoting an alternative site for Gush Katif residents to put down new roots.
Uri Naamati is the mayor of Eshkol. He is excited about the prospect of expanding his city by 10,000 residents.
URI NAAMATI, MAYOR OF ESHKOL, (Translation): We want to get to 20,000 inhabitants an the disengagement of Gush Katif is an opportunity for our municipality.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN, (Translation): I would like to know... what kind of employment is available in agriculture, in farming... I might decide to change my job, own a farm, or be in agriculture. I also had this idea, but only if it's possible... chicken farming for eggs, for a certain quota of eggs...
URI NAAMATI (Translation): Let me put it this way. We don't encourage chicken farming here. Our municipality is based on agriculture, working the land and greenhouses.
Meir and his family leave the meeting disheartened that the area did not live up to their expectations.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: It is good that they took us, but this is not for me.
REPORTER: Why?
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: Because the place is good but it's far and I can't find a job.
Unlike Meir, Schlomo Wassertil is a Gush Katif settler who refuses to leave.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL, (Translation): Halil, just take out the dirt. That's all. No need to clean it all up. You're wasting time. We're leaving soon.
He spent 22 years building up his greenhouse business and sells flowers all over the world. These exports have made Schlomo a wealthy businessman. He employs Arab workers from nearby Khan Yunis refugee camp and other cheap labour from Thailand and Nepal. Ironically they'll all be out of work if he's evicted.
REPORTER: Is it possible to move all this and put it somewhere else? Big job, you will need many truck many trucks.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL: Many trucks, many work and not enough time. Not enough time. So I told you we are staying here. That's all.
Despite his thriving business, life isn't comfortable for Schlomo. In his office, he keeps a collection of rockets and mortars. More than 20 have hit his greenhouse.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL: We have the bomb here, come just on the windows of the house directly.
Last year this female Thai worker was killed in a Palestinian mortar attack. But despite this, he's adamant he won't be moving.
REPORTER: What do you think when you hear from the international community saying that the settlements are illegal under international law? What do you say to that?
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL: Do you listen? It's our neighbour. The Arab, the Arab peoples. In the next maybe six months if we go out, he become very hungry.
Schlomo's reaction is typical of many settlers who deny they're living on Palestinian land. They also don't regard their presence in the region as an impediment to peace with the Palestinians.
After producing three generations here, fighting for Israel in all its wars, and keeping the greater Israel ideal alive for 28 years, he cannot accept that he's about to be turfed out.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL (Translation): Sharon's plan is a very bad one. A very bad one. I'm sorry to speak like that about my PM who is doing such a terrible thing in Israel. There is no other country in the world that would take some of its citizens and throw them out of their homes with nothing. This doesn't exist for no matter what reason, even the most justifiable one.
Schlomo will not be leaving with nothing but stands to lose 30% of his compensation if he stays and fights. Today Shlomo will join a mass protest about the forthcoming evictions which the government calls 'disengagement'. Shlomo's banner reads: "I am also engaging. Sharon is tearing the nation apart."
Along the way, he spots some of his friends from the police force. As thousands of supporters come, in solidarity with the settlers, the police and soldiers keep a watchful eye. 10,000 soldiers and 18,000 police are being specially trained to remove the settlers from their homes and deal with hardcore opponents.
After much debate, the Israeli Government has decided not to destroy the homes
when the settlers go, leaving them for the Palestinians as a goodwill gesture. The thought of having their Arab neighbours move into their houses adds fuel to the fire.
REPORTER: In hindsight, was it a mistake to allow the settlements to be built in Gaza?
RAANAN GISSE, PM ADVISOR: No, no. When we built the settlements it was a different situation. Things change in the Middle East, this is a rapidly changing environment. We're talking about 30, 20 years ago when the settlements did serve a security purpose at the time.
Ra'anan Gisse is Prime Minister Sharon's adviser and media spokesperson.
RAANAN GISSE: The benefit was that, as long as these settlements were there, you know, and were defending and they were holding - they created a... sort of cut Gaza into three parts. So there was no possibility of the terrorist groups to unite or to move together and operate against Israel.
It's a small area. Now the situation has changed. There's a new leadership and that leadership wants to move on the road to peace.
But as the Israeli Government prepares to withdraw from Gaza, plans to expand settlements around Jerusalem and the West Bank are already under way.
Here in Bethlehem, Israel's security barrier cuts through Palestinian territory to ensure the settlement on the hill, Gush Etzion, remains in Israel and becomes part of Jerusalem. Jerusalem's borders appear to be expanding.
REPORTER: Are you sacrificing Gaza so you can continue expanding settlements in the West Bank?
RAANAN GISSE: We're not expanding settlements in the West Bank. We are establishing defensive lines. If the Palestinians don't want to take... to move against terror, then that's where those defensive lines will stay for as long as they don't - as they miss this opportunity. Now this opportunity may not come back again. So it's up to them, if this will be the end or the beginning.
REPORTER: OK, so you're pulling out of Gaza now. When will you be pulling out of the West Bank?
RAANAN GISSE: Look, we're pulling out of one of four settlements in Samaria, and then we will stand and wait. If the Palestinians fulfil their obligations and fight terrorism, and bring about a cessation of incitement to violence, as they pledge they will do, then we can move to the first phase of the roadmap to peace.
It's these remarks that are guaranteed to enrage these protesters. Tonight, tens of thousands have come to Jerusalem to oppose any evictions and any negotiations with the Palestinians.
These are Lubavitch Jews, an influential worldwide Jewish religious movement. For them, ceding what they see as God-given land to the Palestinians is a crime against the Jewish people. And they will not tolerate any detour from the ideal of a greater Israel, which stretches from the Nile River to the Euphrates.
They say they'll stage a bloody showdown that will leave soldiers and settlers dead in the streets.
RABBI YOSEF DAYAN: This is the evening where we become radicals. Today we are not going to play any more games. These people, these young people are going to be radicalising themselves and they're going to do things that nobody have seen in the country.
REPORTER: What kind of things?
RABBI YOSEF DAYAN: What kind of things? We are going to prevent Sharon from carrying out his plan. We are not going to allow him to uproot the beautiful creation in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.
REPORTER: And how are you going to do this?
RABBI YOSEF DAYAN: It depends, it depends on what are going to be the means used by the government. And assuming that there are going to be soldiers also, sick soldiers, carrying out weapons to uproot civilian people, we are going to receive them with weapons, of course.
Rabbi Yosef Dayan issues a chilling warning to Ariel Sharon. He says if the Prime Minister goes ahead with the disengagement plan, he will suffer the same fate as one of his predecessors, Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by an Israeli for talking peace with the Palestinians. Dayan says he placed a curse on Rabin.
RABBI YOSEF DAYAN: I carried out the Pulsa Denoura against Rabin. One month later he was assassinated. By whom I have no idea, but he was killed. There are many people wishing the dead of Sharon and I said he is right, I am among them. I really will him to die.
Schlomo Wassetil has also come along tonight and expresses his delight in the support of the extreme right.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL, (Translation): Well, first of all, I'm very happy that the Lubavitch Jews entered the picture, because if they're on our side, the whole atmosphere in the country will change. These Chasidic Jews are part of the sect which is very joyful and well accepted. They know how to keep on the right path and are very devoted to it.
I think they'll be very helpful in creating the right atmosphere, as they dare to say what we're too inhibited to say.
SPEAKER: You are setting a tremendous, horrendous precedent. If you are going to force Jews to chase Jews out of Israel, what's going to stop Germany and Italy, and France and Russia from chasing Jews out of their homes.
Like this soldier, the troops that may eventually be used to evict the settlers are threatening revolt.
SOLDIER (Translation): Sharon created a situation that forces us to be on a collision course with the IDF, the army we all love. If the army abides by this order, this will be it's downfall.
These soldiers have already been dismissed from the army for disobeying orders but tonight they're being celebrated as heroes.
SCHLOMO WASSERTIL, (Translation): It's not about peace. There won't be peace. It's clear there's no peace now and there won't be, it's not on the horizon.
MERAV PIAMENTA, (Translation): I'll do my best to stop it from happening because it'll be really terrible if it does. Where will I draw the line? I'll follow our leaders. Whatever the rabbis, the head of the council, or the leaders of the struggle say, I'll abide by what they say.
DAVID PIAMENTA, (Translation): It'll cause anger, pain and a great rift. It'll be very hard. They're gearing up for it very forcefully. 18,000 policemen without badges, with no accountability, will be allowed to hit us. It makes you feel like public enemy number one. We're the enemy now, it's a terrible feeling.
MAN, (Translation): Why are you filming him?
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN, (Translation): So we have a souvenir for when we're not here. So we can remember this crumby place we've left.
For Meir and his family, with compensation on the way, they can finally get ready to leave.
MAN, (Translation): He should have left 20 years ago, not now.
MEIR ROTTENSTEIN: My wish is to go from here as fast as I can so that I can find a job, build a new life some place else and continue to live the usual life.