"That's who we think our first settlers will be".
The residents have rejected the plan, fearing that once homes are destroyed, Jewish settlers will be moved in.
Israeli analysts say this means that 80% of all West Bank settlers will be gathered on the Israeli side of the barrier.
"If we try to enter our land, settlers will be waiting, and we will be beaten," said Muhammad Moqbel, a 71-year-old Palestinian from the village of Qaryout who pointed to fields that he said had been stolen by settlers.
He is facing fierce opposition from right-wing political groups (including some in his own Likud party) and from the vociferous Jewish settler movement over his "disengagement" plan, in which Israeli troops and settlers will be withdrawn from Gaza.
Even before the bombing, the Israeli army had reoccupied Jenin and slapped a curfew on Qalqiliya.The greater fear especially among Palestinians ensnared in their increasingly isolated villages is that Israeli settlers will be given free rein to exact revenge.
Once the road is complete, the settlers will be able to drive from the West Bank to central Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial capital on the coast, without having to go through a traffic light.
He insists, for example, that the city of Jerusalem will remain united and under Israeli sovereignty, and he has promised that a majority of Jewish settlers will be able to stay in the West Bank.
Under the deal, the 330 Amona settlers will be moved to a nearby site on land that Israel considers abandoned by its Palestinian owners, but land-ownership claims by Palestinians have already been filed with Israeli authorities.
We know that in a short while the European settlers will be engaged in a protracted colonial war with the Maoris, and that within Ada's lifetime this new country will be the first to introduce women's suffrage and the old-age pension.
