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Some settlers accuse Mr Sharon of acting dictatorially with his controversial disengagement plans and have urged the security forces to disobey implementation orders.

Mr Sharon responded on Sunday:

"We have been witnesses in the last few days to a very serious campaign of incitement.

"I would say that some of these calls are actually directed towards a civil war," he said.

The BBC's James Reynolds in Jerusalem says some people find the current political climate is disturbingly similar to that of late 1995 - when right-wing activists led an angry campaign against Yitzhak Rabin, the then prime minister, and his efforts to follow peace accords.

This culminated in Rabin's assassination by a right-wing extremist.more..