Isratine

Isratine  (Idea)
Proposed Middle Eastern state (portmanteau of Israel and Palestine

Isratine also known as the bi-national state is a proposed unitary, federal or confederate Israeli-Palestinian state encompassing the present territory of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Depending on various points of view, such a scenario is presented as a desirable one-state solution to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, or as a calamity in which Israel would ostensibly lose its character as a Jewish state and the Palestinians would fail to achieve their national independence within a two-state solution. Increasingly, Isratine is being discussed not as an intentional political solution – desired or undesired – but as the probable, inevitable outcome of the continuous growth of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the seemingly irrevocable entrenchment of the Israeli occupation there since 1967.

Gaddafi plan

The Gaddafi Isratine proposal intended to permanently resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through a secular, federalist, republican one-state solution, which was first articulated by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, at the Chatham House in London and later adopted by Muammar Gaddafi himself.

Main points

Its main points are:

• Creation of a binational Jewish-Palestinian 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;
• Recognition of the state by the Arab League.

Federal Republic of the Holy Land

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

Avoiding partition

Muammar Gaddafi again championed the "Isratine proposal" in an op-ed article for the New York Times as the "only option" for a solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The timing of the article approximately coincided with the inauguration of Barack Obama as US President and with the cease-fire that apparently marked the end of the Gaza War (2008–09). Gaddafi argued that this solution would avoid the partitioning of West Bank into Arab and Jewish zones, with buffer zones between them.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Gaddafi's 2009 speech: "Let's call it the UN Terror Council"	Speech	23 September 2009	Muammar Gaddafi	No one is above the UN General Assembly. All nations should be and should be seen to be on an equal footing. At present, the UN Security Council is security feudalism, political feudalism for those with permanent seats, protected by them and used against us. It should be called, not the UN Security Council, but the UN Terror Council.
Document:The House of Zion	Essay	November 2015	Perry Anderson	Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, is the Marxist equivalent of a Papal edict. He excommunicates the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and anoints an alternative: "the demand for one state is now the best Palestinian option available."
Document:The White Book And The Isratine Proposal	Book	8 May 2003	Muammar Gaddafi	The White Book's Fundamental Historical Solution: “Isratine” – a single-state solution for Jews and Palestinians to live in peace. Call it the Federal Republic of the Holy Land.

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