The trouble in New Caledonia is that 63,000 native Melanesians want to declare their own country, and a settler population of 83,000 Frenchmen, Wallisians, Indonesians, Polynesians, and Southeast Asians are terrified that they will.
In the 1980s indigenous Kanak leaders pushing for independence managed to get their islands relisted as "non-self-governing". Violent conflict on the island, which has a substantial French settler population, ended in 1988 only after the authorities in Paris agreed to a referendum on independence to be held ten years later.
More recently it has been argued that the very power of the British and the easy victory over the Xhosa in 1835, as well as an increase in the settler population, enticed the Voortrekkers into the interior with the prospect of more land and easy conquests.
Likud's neo-Zionist orthodoxies gave rise to a rapidly expanding West Bank settler population, whose towns many began taking for granted.
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The chronicles also mention that the chiefs amongst them received gifts such as clothes from settlers and state that the Vedar in turn provided meat and honey to the settler population, indicating a system of barter trade between the groups.
Elsewhere, speaking of an increase in the Israeli settler population on the West Bank from about 5,000 around the time of the Camp David accords in 1977 to over 300,000 now, the authors employ a counterfactual, saying "things could have been different if the Arabs had chosen a more pragmatic course".
According to the report, "the settler population is growing at a much faster rate (an average of 5.3% annually over the last decade) than the Israeli population as a whole (1.8%)".
And yet from 1984 to 2002 the settler population increased from a mere 30,000 to approximately 200,000 (not including another 200,000 living in East Jerusalem, which Israelis do not consider part of the West Bank).
They do not share it equally.According to a recent study by B'Tselem, an Israeli human-rights group, the West Bank settler population doubled in size during the seven-year Oslo peace process, and the settlements' territorial reach has now been extended to cover nearly 42% of the West Bank.
In his first 18 months in office, Mr Barak had built 2,830 new units in the West Bank and Gaza and increased the settler population by 13,000 to a total of 195,000, excluding the 180,000 Israelis who live in occupied East Jerusalem.
