If the economically-motivated are a 60% majority in the West Bank, that would be indeed a sign for optimism.

You would hope Peretz would have internal Labour polls or other information about how many of the settlements have over 40% of radicals. Unless you think he'd made this proposal to have it fail on purpose.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman