JERUSALEM, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- A group of Jewish settlers are appealing for a criminal action against two government ministers over their remarks regarding the recent upsurge of settler violence, Israeli news service Ynet reported Monday.

    The complaints against Vice Premier Haim Ramon and National Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer came after the two men blasted the violent acts by radical settlers in West Bank against Israeli soldiers and Palestinian residents during Sunday's cabinet meeting.

    Ramon was quoted by Ynet as telling the cabinet that concrete intelligence information showed hundreds of settlers have declared a revolt against the government, while local daily the Jerusalem Post quoted Ben-Eliezer as saying that the settlers' thought is "satanic and irrational."

    Following the meeting, a committee of West Bank settlers decided o request Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz, whose approval is prerequisite to any criminal action against public servants, to prosecute Ramon and Ben-Eliezer for incitement and libel.

    "The horrible incitement in the media and in the cabinet meeting is reminiscent in its severity only of the dark days of incitement against half the population" after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish extremist 13 years ago, Ynet quoted the settlers as saying in a petition submitted to Mazuz on Monday.

    The settlers' leaders also said, according to the Jerusalem Post, that they would consider filing complaints against other leaders, including caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who instructed the cabinet to take harsher measures to rein in radical settlers.

    Settlers' violence has recently been on the rise, resulting in tens of injuries and damage to scores of vehicles and other properties. Many Israeli officials have been calling for immediate efforts to put a lid on the rampancy.