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Views of Palestinian statehood are various, disparate, and often violently disputed. Some observers regard this matter as central to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Proposals for a Palestinian state vary depending on ones views of Palestinian statehood, as well as various definitions of Palestine and Palestinian (see also State of Palestine). ... Israel (in Blue) and the Arab League states (in Green) The Arab-Israeli conflict is a long-running conflict in the Middle East regarding the existence of the state of Israel and its relations with Arab states and with the Palestinian population (see Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ...

This article simply lists all the various views, without evaluating whether any particular view is justified. Its purpose is to delineate the major points of view which will be of interest to Wikipedia readers.

Ideas for creating states in the region historically known as "Palestine" include: Map of the British Mandate of Palestine. ...

• the view that all of the region should be a Jewish homeland, i.e., a sovereign state called Israel.
• the view that the region should be divided into two roughly equal portions: a Jewish homeland called Israel, and the other for non-Jewish residents (any name okay)
• the view that the region should consist of three states: with (1) Jordan to the east of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea; and with (2) "Palestine" and (3) Israel to have some arrangement of the territory to the west of the Jordan River
• the view that the eastern portion of the region should become an Arab kingdom (i.e., modern Jordan) and that the western portion should belong to the non-Jewish residents of the region (i.e., a sovereign state called "Palestine")
• the view that the region should be a single multi-cultural, pluralistic state, like Lebanon. This view has two main variants:
  • the entire region should be a pluralistic state
  • the region should be divided into (1) a pluralistic state and (2) a chiefly Arab state

One convenient way to divide these views takes into account the geographical redefinition of "Palestine" in the mid-20th century. Before the 1940s, Palestine was generally held to include the territory which later became "Jordan"; by the end of the 1940s, usage of the term Palestine generally assumed to exclude Jordan. The State of Israel (Hebrew: מדינת ישראל, translit. ... Northern part of the Great Rift Valley as seen from space (NASA) The Jordan River today The Jordan River is a river in Southwest Asia flowing through the Jordan Rift Valley into the Dead Sea. ...

This distinction has a bearing on several key political phrases, such as:

• State of Palestine
• Palestinian territories
• occupation of Palestine
• Palestinian refugees

... The West Bank The Gaza Strip The term Palestinian territories is used by many mainstream Western journalists as a collective name for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — two territories in Palestine. ... The occupation of Palestine is a hotly disputed issue in the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict. ... In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a Palestinian refugee is a refugee from Palestine created by the Palestinian Exodus, which Palestinians call the Nakba (نكبة, meaning disaster). // History Many Palestinians had already become refugees by the time neighboring Arab states attacked the newly established State of Israel in 1948, and the exodus...

The western portion of the region

The view that the region west of the Jordan River should become a Jewish homeland west of the Jordan River, while the region to its east should be for non-Jewish residents, is still fondly cherished by many Israeli and American Jews, but utterly dismissed by Islamic people generally. Northern part of the Great Rift Valley as seen from space (NASA) The Jordan River today The Jordan River is a river in Southwest Asia flowing through the Jordan Rift Valley into the Dead Sea. ...

• It accepts the status quo of Jordan's existence; but
• It does not solve the problem of stateless Arabs living in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, or western portions of Jordan; and
• It is violently opposed by nations and movements who never wanted to see Israel established in the first place and still hope for its utter destruction now.

The entire region

Jewish homeland

The view that the entire region should be a Jewish homeland is now considered by many to be impossible. The State of Israel (Hebrew: מדינת ישראל, translit. ...