You contradict yourself. First you state that the IDF won't do anything to the settlers if they "break off" from Israel, and then you state the current establishment won't let the settlers live and flourish in Judea and Samaria.
The fact is the IDF uses violence against the settlers without any of the concerns they have have when dealing with the Israel's foreign enemies.
The current Israeli government will crush any settlers that declare their independence from Israel.
I did not contradict myself. I think you are just not understanding me.
The settlers will never be allowed to do what is necessary for their self defense by the current regime,
so long as they remain subjects of the state and dependent on the IDF (an agent of the state) for protection. If the status quo remains, the settlers are at the whims of the arab-loving upper eschelons of the IDF and its employers. In this current situation, the IDF prevents the settlers from defending themselves. It takes away their weapons. It allows and encourages arab attacks. And it is the IDF's job to control these areas, with the yesha council begging them to stay and save everyone from the arabs.
Do you think the IDF will just magically change its mind? Suddenly they'll wake up one day and have a 'change of heart' and change their operating procedures for no reason at all? Not a chance.
If the settlers extract themselves from the state of Israel and demonstrate their unwillingness to be "defended" by the IDF, the IDF will not be duty-bound to defend land areas which the Israeli govt cedes to settlers or just withdraws from. The nascent state in Judea can be a proxy for the state of Israel or simply not engage with it. But there is no reason the IDF has to "declare war" and start treating settlers like they are hamas! Where do you get that idea from? The settlements are a 'headache' which the state of Israel
does not want. Who can't see that by now? If settlers make facts on the ground and start demonstrating independence and self-sufficiency, it will be the greatest gift the Israeli regime could ask for. And then when Jewish reprisals finally start to occur on the Arabs, the Israeli govt can wash its hands of it and say we have nothing to do with the people there.
The IDF is there because of settlers; it is not there because the Israeli govt thinks we the Jewish people belong in the land of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and therefore the Israeli govt asserts its rights to the territory. lol, the Israeli govt thinks that land is arab land!