On Monday, police and soldiers expelled activists from three of eight new Jewish communities established in recent days throughout Judea and Samaria. Givat Halhoul

Activists and police fell into a... pattern of forced eviction and determined return.

near Hevron, Mevaseret Adumim between Maaleh Adumim and Jerusalem, and Harchivi near Kedumim, have all been forcibly emptied.

Givat HaOr, too, outside Beit El, was evacuated early this morning, and several arrests were made when the youthful pioneers attempted to return several hours later.  Officials said they would expel activists from another four new communities within two days.

At Maoz Esther, near Kokhav HaShachar, Alex G'alyah plans to light the eight Chanukah candles this evening.  His wife Esther, the mother of his seven children, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in November 2002, and for outpost is named for her.  Some 30 people spent the night there, for the second night in a row, and are now working to build up the area.

Some of the pioneers ejected from Mevaseret Adumim explained that dozens had been removed from the site on Sunday night, but returned overnight to reestablish Jewish presence in the area. Activists and police fell into a similar pattern of forced eviction and determined return Sunday and Monday at Nofei Hashmonaim (near the Modiin area) and Givat Halhoul.

At Netzer, just north of Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion, many activists have maintained a presence.  Slightly to the south, an Arab woman armed with a knife attempted to stab a soldier at the Gush Etzion junction late Tuesday morning.  Soldiers at the site overcame and arrested her.

The nuclei for eight Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria were either established or strengthened by Jewish pioneers in a special Chanukah settlement project. Land of Israel activists said they would continue returning to all of the sites from which they are evicted, in defiance of attempts to keep them away.

Wallerstein Spends the Day at Police HQ

Pinchas Wallerstein, the former chairman of the Binyamin Regional Council, told Arutz-7 Radio that he spent Sunday being interrogated by the police about the Chanukah settlement campaign.

Regarding the campaign itself, Wallerstein said, "It is an important move, but it is not an act of settlement. Now, after the harsh judgments of Annapolis, the expression of the struggle that despite it all and in spite of everything, we are acting on the ground - that is an important thing in and of itself. However, it must be seen in the correct proportions.... it is just a way to present the failures of the government."

Wallerstein said that the central goal at this stage must be to "create the conditions for Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu to quit the government," rather than "showing how right we are."

Weiss: 'Rice Has a Migraine Because of Migron'

Daniella Weiss, former mayor of the town of Kedumim and one of the leaders of the

"Create the conditions for Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu to quit the government." -- Pinchas Wallerstein

Chanukah settlement activity at Givat HaOr, has a different view than Wallerstein.

"The goal of the operation is to settle on every single hill and in every single place throughout the open spaces of the Land of Israel," she said. "While the government talks about ceding parts of the Land of Israel to murderers or to a foreign entity, we are increasing our efforts to hold on everywhere. We chose a few sites and we are successfully holding on, despite all the attempts at destruction."

Weiss added her view of the reports of American insistence on the removal of Jewish outposts in Judea and Samaria: "There is a reason that Condoleezza Rice has a migraine because of Migron. It is not a problem to remove Migron, it's only a few trailers, but a spiritual power flows from there and that is what strengthens the Jewish spark in Tel Aviv."

From the physical presence in Judea and Samaria, Weiss explained, comes a powerful spirit of independence, of the heroism of the Maccabees.