"The next disengagement will not be a military operation," says Brig.-Gen. Eival Giladi, who headed the Prime Minister's Bureau strategy planning team for the Gaza withdrawal. Speaking at a lecture this week at Haifa University, Giladi said it will instead be "the movement of people who will move themselves on their own..."

Giladi envisions a situation in which some of the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria will be enticed to leave via financial compensation packages, followed by the others who will have no choice but to go in their footsteps.

"Imagine that in the beginning of 2007," Giladi said, "an 'Evacuation/Compensation Law' is passed for these people, and they start leaving on their own... We will offer them a financial package, and people will have time to make decisions... A supermarket won't be able to operate in a community in which only 5-6 families remain."

Giladi also said that in his opinion, there need be no Disengagement Authority - the body headed by Yonatan Bassi to coordinate the relocation of the expelled residents - for the coming expulsion. "Why repeat mistakes that didn't work in the past?" he asked.

Arutz-7 contacted Yossi Fuchs of the Land of Israel Legal Forum for his opinion. The forum has represented the interests of the Gush Katif expellees for well over a year on a volunteer basis. Fuchs said that Giladi's approach is worrisome in that it indicates that there will be no effort to rebuild communities. "Every resident will be on his own," Fuchs said, "with all the terrible ramifications that follow."

The Legal Forum was in the forefront of efforts last year at this time to ensure that the destroyed communities would be rebuilt elsewhere, in order to minimize the psychological damage inflicted upon the expellees.

Lior Kalfa, who was thrown out of N'vei Dekalim last year and who now heads the Gush Katif Residents Committee, agrees. "Even now, it is clear that those who went on their own are suffering the most, even more than the rest of us," he told Arutz-7. "I just spoke to one man last night, who is living in the north with his family, and he says that he wishes he could come back to join us, even with all our problems... If the worst happens, I say to the people of Yesha: Do not sign with the government on your own, but rather stick together as communities."

Both Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Vice Premier Shimon Peres apparently do not agree with Giladi's non-military approach. Haaretz correspondent Aluf Benn reports that the two feel that the residents of Judea and Samaria will have to be expelled by force, but they disagree as to how to go about it. Peres feels it should be done in stages, whereas Olmert is of the opinion that it must be done in one fell swoop.

The Prime Minister feels, according to Benn, that Israel will receive greater international support and recognition in return for one major move than what can be expected from a series of smaller steps. Olmert similarly attempted to convince Ariel Sharon to remove more communities in the Shomron last year, hoping to avoid a series of internal crises.

Peres, however, feels that the government will be unable, financially and otherwise, to evacuate 60,000-80,000 settlers in one move. The previous disengagement took a year and cost ten billion shekels for 8,000 people, and Peres feels that these numbers must be multiplied by ten for Judea and Samaria.

In either event, many politicians feel that Israel does not have enough money to effect the transfer at all. MK Avigdor Lieberman, for instance, who heads the Yisrael Beiteinu party, recently told the Knesset that the unilateral withdrawal plan is "irrelevant" in that no government will be able to find the money to pay for it.