Most plans entail dismantling 25 to 50 Jewish settlements and gathering settlers into concentrated blocs.
Thanks to a huge influx of settlers into its ranks, they hold sway in choosing candidates for the party list.
The major movements into the continent in the past few centuries have been of European settlers into northern Africa and of European and Asian settlers in Southern Africa.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations said that "inserting settlers into Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem" undermined prospects for addressing the city's status.
In New York, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, told the Security Council, "All settlement activity is illegal, but inserting settlers into Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem is particularly troubling".
But the scheme would amount to a major new encroachment by the settlers into this city of 120,000 Palestinians and just a few hundred Jews.
First settled in 1864 and known locally as Missouri, it was renamed for wagon master and trail guide John M. Bozeman, who guided the first settlers into the Gallatin valley.
The Kurdish parties have been moving settlers into Kirkuk and other areas south of the Kurdish region, arguing that they are reclaiming lands stripped from them under Mr. Hussein.
As Mr Haniyeh noted in his welcome address, holy warriors have in some cases turned into house builders, converting the rubble left behind by Jewish settlers into high-rise blocks.
It forced the Mauritanians back, but Morocco poured resources and settlers into the land it had claimed, and later sealed it off with a trench-cum-wall 1,500 miles (2,400km) long.
In "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America" (Oxford University Press, 1989), David Hackett Fischer divided American settlers into four main groups on the basis of where in Britain they originally came from the Puritans, the Quakers, the Cavaliers and the Scots-Irish.
