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This International Dateline episode includes four segments: Unsettling Settlers, Natan Sharansky Interview, The Right Stuff, and Shoot the Messenger Update.

Unsettling Settlers 
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered that Israelis pull-out of the settlements that were established in the Gaza Strip over the last 38 years; leaving them to the Palestinians. The problem is that most of the settlers in the Strip don't want to go and say they're prepared to fight to stay. There have already been heavy protests and last week, a member of the Israeli Defense Force was sentenced to jail for refusing to take part in the evictions. Dateline's Elizabeth Tadic recently travelled to the contentious Gaza settlements, where the mood is virulently anti-Sharon and settlers have begun to turn on those who want to leave.
  
Natan Sharansky Interview  
Last week, a prominent right-wing cabinet minister and former Russian dissident, Natan Sharansky, resigned in protest at the plan to relocate the settlers, which yesterday was put on hold for another three weeks. Sharansky was Israel's Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs. He's also George Bush's personal guru on the core issues of democracy and freedom. Earlier, Dateline's George Negus talked with Mr. Sharansky from Jerusalem about both Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan and also about Elizabeth Tadic's report on the settlers. 
 
The Right Stuff 
In the US last November, the votes of conservative Christians were credited with getting fellow conservative Christian George W. Bush into the White House for his second term as President.  Energized by their resounding victory and with a new-found sense of political legitimacy, the Christian right has been confidently pushing ahead with its moral agenda.  As part of this religious revolution, a unique educational institution has emerged, specifically designed to produce the next generation of conservative Christian leaders. Dateline's Sophie McNeill visited Virginia to find out precisely what the students at Patrick Henry College are learning. 
 
Shoot the Messenger Update

Two weeks ago, Dateline held an exclusive interview with Kevin Sites, the NBC cameraman who last November filmed an American marine shooting dead an unarmed, wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque. The final segment is an update on that report.

About International Dateline 

SBS Dateline, which began in 1984, is Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. It has a well-earned reputation for authoritative and incisive reporting. Dateline has taken the traditional way of producing TV current affairs and turned it on its head. Reporters who used to travel with a cameraperson and sound recordist now travel alone and have the responsibility of both filming and reporting their stories. The reporters became video-journalists, gaining access to people and places that the conventional camera crews cannot.