PISGAT ZEEV, West Bank, Oct 11 (AFP) - Israel's settler movement unveiled plans Monday for a massive campaign to force Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to submit his plan to uproot thousands of Jews from parts of the Palestinian territories to a national referendum.
Under the banner "Sharon is tearing apart the nation," the settlers' main organization, the Yesha Council, "is demanding that the prime minister bring his Gaza and northern Samaria -- northern West Bank -- disengagement proposal to a national referendum or call for early elections", a statement said.
Besides dismantling all 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip in 2005, Sharon's plan also includes the evacuation of four isolated Jewish enclaves in the northern West Bank.
The council's campaign will feature a nationwide, door-to-door "information campaign" and handouts of T-shirts and stickers bearing anti-pullout slogans.
Residents of the Gush Katif settlement bloc, in the southern Gaza Strip, also plan to flood the country with orange-colored posters, stickers and flags.
The orange theme, organizers said, will represent the color of the sunrise which has the "power of chasing away darkness in which the prime minister wants to engulf us all with his plan of transfer."
During the so-called "orange week", demonstrations are to be held Thursday in 100 Israeli cities and settlements, and 1,000 anti-pullout activists are expected to stand at some 1,000 crossroads throughout the country.
Well-known figures are set to participate in the demonstrations, organizers said.
The campaign is supposed to culminate next Sunday when footage of the demonstrations is broadcast on a giant screen at a square near Sharon's Jerusalem residence.
A parallel campaign began Monday warning Israelis against the strategic danger of the northern West Bank withdrawal, which, the council argues, would put Israeli communities "within range of the (Palestinian) terror group's weapons".
The council intends to plaster posters in northern Israeli towns that read "Qassams are on their way", in reference to the crude rockets manufactured by the hardline Hamas and named after the group's armed wing -- the Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades.
Qassams have only been fired from the Gaza Strip so far at southern Israeli communities.
The army launched a large raid into the northern Gaza Strip on September 28 to try to stop the firing of Qassam rockets. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in the course of the offensive.
The settler movement has previously held mass rallies and a vast human chain to protest what it calls Sharon's plans for a "forcible transfer of Jews".
Sharon, who announced Monday that he would submit his disengagement plan to a parliamentary vote on October 25, has argued there is not enough time for it to be the subject of a nationwide poll.