  By STEVEN GUTKIN, Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM - A sharp escalation in right-wing threats and rhetoric ahead of a planned Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) has put security forces on alert and evoked memories of the hate-filled atmosphere that preceded the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (news - web sites). Jewish extremists say they are planning a full-fledged rebellion. In interviews, several said they were recruiting fighters and instructing followers to resist eviction by force. The warnings have put the nation's leaders on edge. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) said this week he feels at risk. His police minister, Tsachi Hanegbi, warned that extremists are plotting assassinations, though later officials clarified that he was speaking from an assessment of the charged political atmosphere rather than from specific intelligence.
In a sign of the times, Israeli television showed footage of Jewish settlers at a Gaza synagogue being instructed in resistance tactics by members of the outlawed extremist group Kach. "If policemen and soldiers come with weapons to throw little children and women from their homes, what do you expect? People to give them roses? " said Noam Federman, a leader of militant Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron. --This is not good. I think we are on the brink of a civil war here in Israel. This can't be good at all. G-d give PM Ariel Sharon the strength to do the right thing. Andrew B. 
