Dozens of left-wing activists arrived at the Shomron community of Yakir this morning to protest against a new neighborhood of caravans there. The area was declared a closed military zone, and three protestors who refused to leave were arrested. The Yesha Council recently responded sharply to Peace Now\'s accusations against supposedly \"new\" settlements by stating,
\"It\'s not enough that they brought Arafat here and gave him guns - they now dare to count how many of us are still left alive and how many have closed in their porches... Peace Now knows that their claims are untrue, and that all the [new] locations they mentioned have been in existence since the days of the Barak government. Their purpose is only to cause a rift between Likud and Labor, to dismantle the unity government, and bring about a dispute with the U.S. Most of Israel\'s citizens are well aware that what is preventing peace is not the settlements in Yesha, but the alliance between Peace Now and Arafat.\"
\"It\'s not enough that they brought Arafat here and gave him guns - they now dare to count how many of us are still left alive and how many have closed in their porches... Peace Now knows that their claims are untrue, and that all the [new] locations they mentioned have been in existence since the days of the Barak government. Their purpose is only to cause a rift between Likud and Labor, to dismantle the unity government, and bring about a dispute with the U.S. Most of Israel\'s citizens are well aware that what is preventing peace is not the settlements in Yesha, but the alliance between Peace Now and Arafat.\"