Matthew Gutman, THE JERUSALEM POST
Settler leaders and rabbis met in the Gush Katif settlement bloc Monday morning to hammer out a code of conduct meant to put the brakes on an anti-disengagement struggle that appears to be careening out of control.
The declaration follows a rash of violence both in Gush Katif and in road protests across Israel in the past week – a contagion that settlement leaders fear could critically weaken their campaign against the government's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank later this summer.
MK Effie Eitam, for years a partner in secular-religious dialogue, spearheaded the code of conduct which calls for a prohibition on any type of violence, physical or verbal, a principled stance against soldiers' refusal to carry out orders, and a call to collect settlers' weapons before the disengagement, he said Monday afternoon.

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