In what some worry could turn out to be 'Step 1 of Disengagement 2' - IDF forces have reportedly recently been confiscating hundreds of weapons and other military equipment from Jewish communities in Samaria.
While the army insists that it is only impounding military-issue guns, and that no personal weapons have been taken, some security personnel in the affected communities expressed concern that they will be left with little defense at the same time that the government has ordered the removal of dozens of roadblocks and blockades designed to restrict travel by Arab terrorists, reports Israel National News.
Something even more sinister could be behind the move.
Samaria is the larger, northern chunk of what anti-Israel forces call the "West Bank" but which is historically part of the biblical heartland of Israel.
It houses hundreds of thousands of Israel-hating Palestinian Arabs in five main population centers.
Along with the southern section, Judea, and the Gaza Strip, the land is slated by the international community - and against the wishes of most Jews and Israel-supporters - for the creation of a never-before-existing State of Palestine.
The Arabs who would be given this national home at Israel's expense are committed - according to the teaching of their religion and the results of numerous surveys conducted among them - to the ultimate destruction of what would be left of the Jewish state.
Despite this, Israel's government under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has committed itself - after decades of international pressure - to lending a hand to the creation of "Palestine."
Like the Sharon government before it, the current administration is believed to be gearing up for what is widely anticipated to be the eventual massive forced removal from their homes and towns of Judea and Samaria's hundreds of thousands of Jews.
The threatened Israelis, the majority of whom are God-fearing Jews, are internationally hated and disparaged as "settlers" whose existence in these areas constitute the primary "obstacle to peace."
Recent reports have indicated that efforts will first be made to entice these people to leave with monetary incentives.
Those who resist this blackmail will be made to leave, by force if necessary.
Since the 2005 Gaza "Disengagement," which saw the forced removal and turning into refugees of 9,000 Jews, leftist Israeli politicians and journalists have demonized the residents of Samaria-Judea, suggesting that they would resort to violence and even a possible civil war to prevent a similar expulsion from their homes. This despite the overwhelmingly non-violent resistance demonstrated by Gaza's Jews.
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