11.   Gordon Thompson, executive director of the Institute for Resource and Security Studies in Cambridge, Mass., said the expansion possibly could lead to a nuclear meltdown.

12.   He said settlement expansion would lead to a revival of the option of creating a Palestinian homeland in Jordan.

13.   In the NATO view, expansion can only lead to a more stable and secure Europe.

14.   Palestinian Cabinet Minister Hassan Tahboub warned that settlement expansion could lead to renewed violence among Palestinians.

15.   His other major finding is that population expansions led to genetic interchange between newcomers and established communities.