Yossi Dagan of “Homesh First” warned Thursday that residents of Judea and Samaria had gained a new willingness to resist government policy.  “The ‘sucker settler’ is gone.  We will not agree to be the state of Israel’s national punching bag anymore,” he said.

Every time a politician wants to make headlines or to distract the public, he talks about destroying Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, Dagan said.  The next time officials come to destroy “illegal” Jewish communities, he said, residents will send them to fight illegal building in kibbutzim and Arab villages first.

Civilian Administration officials attempted to remove pillars in Har Bracha in Samaria on Wednesday, but residents managed to thwart the planned removal.  The pillars will be used to support caravans for families to live in.