The Settlements Are The State?

Shaul Magid has mixed feelings about Beinart's new book on Israel. A major criticism:

While Beinart gestures to his leftist critics that he is aware of the argument that one cannot separate the settlements from the state, he never responds to them. Probably because he can’t. His suggestion that we should boycott the settlements and give that money (and more!) to the state belies the reality that the state funds the settlements, which is why no one I am familiar with ever suggested boycotting the Afrikaner farmers while giving more aid to the South African government.

I've been persuaded that Peter's specific proposal is basically unfeasible – precisely because of the dead end his book so grimly describes.