Isratine proposal

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The Isratine proposal (also referred to as the Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi proposal) is a proposal to permanently resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a secular, federalist, republican one-state solution, which was first articulated by Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, the son of Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya, at the Chatham House in London.^{[citation needed]}

Its main points are:

Creation of a binational Jewish-Arab state called the "Federal Republic of the Holy Land";
Partition of the state into 5 administrative regions, with Jerusalem as a city-state;
Return of all Palestinian refugees;
Supervision by the United Nations of free and fair elections on the first and second occasions;
Removal of weapons of mass destruction from the state; and
Recognition of the state by the Arab League.

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi's proposal was eventually incorporated in Libyan head-of-state Muammar al-Gaddafi's White Book of May 8, 2003, which serves as his official guide to address the Arab-Israeli conflict and how to solve it.^[1] Despite the suggestion of "Federal Republic of the Holy Land" as the name of this hypothetical new state, "Isratine" (Arabic إسراطين , a portmanteau of the names "Israel" and "Palestine", sometimes rendered "Israstine" or "Israteen") has been used as a "working title" for the notion of a single state in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with Arab and Jewish inhabitants of all three having citizenship and equal rights in the combined entity.

Muammar al-Gaddafi has championed the "Isratine proposal" but it has been met with little recognition from prominent parties in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.^{[citation needed]}