Guest Input: Dani Dayan on the B'tselem Report

From Dani Dayan, Yesha Council Chairman, on the B'tselem Report which makes an outrageous claim of land control:

Here is the full B'tselem report:

http://www.btselem.org/Download/201007_By_Hook_and_by_Crook_Heb.pdf

Look at table 3 in page 9.

The relevant data is the column labeled: סה"כ שטחים מוניציפאליים של ההתנחלויות

They say it is 9.28.

I say 9.19%. The difference is irrelevant.

But the data that they publicized is 42.8% that includes also the column labeled

סה"כ שטחים
מוניציפאליים, כולל מועצות אזוריות

That is a complete non-sense.

They took the contour of the area of the regional councils and counted everything comprised within.

But Avi Roeh [Binyamin Regional Council Head - YM] does not have any jurisdiction on the Arab villages, the roads, the open areas comprised within that contour line.

It is a totally misleading data.

Dani