When considering land swaps in a two-state solution, one helpful reality is that 75 percent of the 604,000 Israelis living beyond the 1967 lines — approximately 455,000 — reside close to the lines.

 

This means that minor modifications to the 1967 lines could incorporate the vast majority within Israel's new borders while allowing for the emergence of a viable Palestinian state.

 

Additionally, Israelis in the West Bank remain integrated with Israel and largely separate from the Palestinians. Sixty percent of settlers work across the Green Line in Israel proper, and most Israel youth attend school in Israel. The few hundred settlers who farm in the West Bank do so on only 1.5 percent of the land.