Mistakes?

Article over at YNet about a letter that the Yesha Council plans to distribute to West Bank residents before Yom Kippur. The letter discusses mistakes that the settler group feels they made during the disengagement.
One of the "mistakes" they address is the lack of communication between protesters and their leaders, particularly in Kfar Maimon. The settler leaders are also critical of the widely photographed and circulated hugs between the soldiers doing the evacuating, and the settlers being evacuated, as an error:

With all the high emotions surrounding Gush Katif, a few minutes before the last Jews were removed from the synagogue at Neve Dekalim, Yesha Council officials on site felt a need to demonstrate and to include the eviction forces in our pain.

We (now) feel we could have done without the hugs, we could have held a more wide-ranging dialogue, even if this would not have stopped the destruction machine.

The letter ends with the following, which seems to me to be a blatant threat of violence if and when the next stage of disengagement takes place:

the State of Israel wants to return to everyday life and forget this crime. But we say tens of thousands of times each day 'Never forgive, never forget.' We will say it to anyone who wants to forget.
...the coming danger is already here, and despite trying to learn the lessons from the current struggle – no one has all the answers. There is no secret way to attain victory over a government and an army without resorting to violence.

Wow. This message of a lack of forgiveness and a threat of violence is really not in the spirit of the day of repentance, Yom Kippur. I also find it difficult to believe that the hugs between soldier and settler, which were so emblematic of the struggle over the disengagement, and gave faith in our nation of Am Yisrael to so many of us who were watching events from afar, could be characterized as a "mistake".
I'm not sure what the benefits of putting this letter out so close to Yom Kippur are. To me, it just seems a distraction from the order of one of the holiest days on the Jewish calendar.