It is true that over the years the settlements have driven a network of wedges between the clusters of Palestinian villages. But these wedges did not create a Jewish dominance that would make unilateral annexation possible. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, the number of Israelis in Judea and Samaria is tens of thousands fewer than the 400,000 that Dayan declared were there, and hundreds of thousands fewer than the 650,000 that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a year ago in the United States. Some 85 percent of the settlers live in the settlement blocs that cover less than six percent of the area of the West bank. In the rest of the area, there is a clear Palestinian dominance. The number of Israelis living outside the blocs is only 2.6 percent of the population, while inside the blocs, it soars to 95 percent.

The built-up area of the Israeli settlements outside the blocs covers less than 0.4 percent of the area of the West Bank, and is 17 times smaller than the Palestinian built-up area, while inside the blocs, it is six times larger.

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