Talk:History of the State of Palestine/Archive 2

POV Tag
In light of the vigorous consensus-building and dispute resolution attempts in Talk sections of articles related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, I am removing the POV tags. If someone has a any further problems not already covered in Talk then by all means restore the tag but please start a new section and bring forth your concerns for consensus building. These perpetual NPOV tags are unreasonable.--A. S. A. 09:17, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

I can't find the meaning of this word
3. a single bi-national state, with or without some degree of cantonization

I've tried Dictionary.com and refered to my Oxford Dictionary, neither have the word.
 * A canton is a small administrative division of a country.  &larr;Humus sapiens&larr;Talk 07:06, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * See articles Canton (subnational entity) and Cantons of Switzerland. --AladdinSE 08:01, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

Removal of 99%
Mustafaa, can you explain your edit? It doesn't make mathematical sense to me. Jayjg (talk) 21:26, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Where did this come from?
Can somebody provide a source for the following statement? Indeed, the removal of Jewish-only settlements is a Palestinian demand, but this sentence, given that it refers to "Jewish communities", implies that Palestinians do not want any Jews to remain in a Palestinian state, which is false. I'm sure there are some people who feel that way, but is there any evidence that this is an official Palestinian position? Ramallite (talk) 19:22, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Insistence by the Palestinians that all Jewish communities within theterritories to be part of a Palestinian state be removed. This includes ancient communities (Hebron), communities destroyed in 1948 and since re-established (Gush Etzion), and settlements established since 1967. The Palestinian position on the Jews of the Old City of Jerusalem is unclear.
 * So the Palestinian position is that the Jewish communities of Hebron and Gush Etzion could stay? Jayjg (talk) 19:47, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above sentence implies that Palestinians insist that, in a final agreement, there should be no Jews in Palestine (at least that's how I read it, but who am I if not the one who burped during Boris Yeltsin's acceptance speech) - my question is where is the evidence to support this? I haven't seen any. In response to your questions, the most recent proposals (like the Geneva Accords) indicate that Gush Etzion would stay under Israeli sovereignty. The problem with Hebron, as I've indicated elsewhere, is not that the residents there are Jewish, but rather that they are religious zealots who number around 500 who are making life very difficult for 20,000 Palestinians in H-2 who are hostage to the settlers' whims and belief that they alone have the right to be there. Not only do they believe in their supremacy over Hebron's Palestinian population, but they unnecessarily employ the resources of the State of Israel to put that supremacy into practice. I wouldn't want anybody like that in my neighborhood either. Ramallite (talk) 20:30, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

I believe they number closer to 1000, and I suspect their view of what is going on is the mirror image of your own. Nevertheless, what I'm getting from this is that the ancient Jewish presence in Hebron would have to go. Jayjg (talk) 20:57, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not aware that they have reached 1000 . I guess I was also wrong about the Palestinians in H-2 - who seem to be around 40,000 not 20,000. Also, their view cannot be the mirror image of my own, because I do not advocate supremacy over anybody else, nor do I believe it is my divine right to destroy my Jewish neighbor's home just to build more houses for myself, or take my neighbor's drinking water and use it to bathe my pets. I also don't believe in beating up somebody else just because they are a different religion from myself, and do not employ the services of an army presence 3 times the size of my community to subjugate my neighbors, who don't have an army of their own. Lastly, emotions are pretty high right now from years of conflict, but I would hate to see Jews banned from Hebron, and would welcome a Jewish presence in Hebron or anywhere else, just as long as they don't intend to kick me out or take away my rights like the current inhabitants of Hebron do. And I'm sure you won't believe this is a majority view, and you have every right to believe what you want, but the reality can be pretty different if everybody has the same rights as equals. Ramallite (talk) 21:20, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, you're right about the population. Regarding the other, I wasn't clear; I don't think you hold these views; rather, I think the views of the Jewish residents of Hebron regarding Arab feelings and beliefs exactly mirror the views you attribute to them regarding their own feelings and beliefs. That is, they think the Arabs of Hebron deliberately make life very difficult for them, and hold them hostage based on their belief that Arabs alone have the right to be there, and should reign supreme over Jews, and that it is only the army that prevents a repeat of the 1929 pogrom. Anyway, what is the official Palestinian position regarding Jews living in the West Bank? Would they all be welcome to stay in their homes if they became citizens of the Palestinian Authority, or some sort of successor? Jayjg (talk) 21:43, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * This is my own speculation based on my own interactions and knowledge of those who have been on negotiating teams, plus some facts. The Palestinian position is very careful not to dismiss the rights or privileges of any Palestinian future citizen, including Jews, to equal citizenry. Most Palestinian documents, as you know, do consider Jewish residents of pre-Zionism Palestine as Palestinians. Having said that, it is also the Palestinian position that settlements themselves must go since it is not currently conceivable for Palestinians to offer Jewish settlers citizenship, based on two things: first, the Israeli negotiating partners will dismiss such a notion as ridiculous, since most settlers would not want to stay in a newly established Palestinian state, and second, it would not be logical during the first few years because settlements are considered as symbols of occupation, and they would effectively be our "Bastilles" where hatred of them, and unfortunately their inhabitants, would run deep. It would take time for Palestinians to build up our infrastructure and "get over" the misery caused by settlements (meaning land confiscations as well as physical abuse by armed settlers). This is as far as settlements go. Now, should Israelis who are Jewish wish to live within cities and villages that are not settlements, depending on locality, it should be much easier and plausible, especially as there is precedent for that (Amira Hass, for example, the Jewish Israeli Haaretz journalist who lives in Ramallah). I don't know that too many Israeli Jews would have any reason to apply for Palestinian citizenship though, especially with Israel within a few minutes driving distance, except for example to get out of army service and such. Of course, non-Israeli Jews have lived among us normally, either temporarily or permanently through marriage, for as long as I can remember. So to make a long story even longer (it seems), the current position is that settlements must go but ex-settlers would eventually be welcome back as what we perceive as non-colonists, and all negotiators agree that, sooner or later, for economic / trade /business reasons if for nothing else, this would have to happen. Incidentally, there was a column a few years ago by an Israeli by the name of Yoram Sadeh who, to quote a synopsis of the piece:


 * "His basic premise is that the only lasting peace will be a warm peace, and that symmetry and equal respect between Israel and the future Palestinian state provide a fair solution. A corollary of this is the idea that Jewish settlers can remain in the Palestinian state as citizens of Israel who respect the local Palestinian laws, and conversely, Arabs in Israel could either have full Israeli citizenship, including serving in the army, or Palestinian citizenship."
 * This article has since disappeared from the internet, but the premise, where settlers stay as Israeli citizens but obeying Palestinian laws, is probably the only solution that the Palestinian side could agree to in a manner that would keep settlements intact. Ramallite (talk) 22:45, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

The problem that is not addressed is that Israeli settlers are in contravention to IV Geneva Convention, Article 49, which makes them eligible for War Crimes Tribunals. This raises the following issuue: Israeli settlers knowinmg that they may be tried for War Crimes should they stay in the future State of Palestine; Would they be proponents of staying? Palestinian laws are bound to adhere to International law.

I have added the following in the reference section:
 * Auld Lang Syne, Scots Nationalism, and Palestinian Fraud by Michael Medved

Palestinian organisations
What are the four Palestinian organisations' emblems for? They're placement in the "impediments" section doesn't seem appropriate. Yodakii 15:10, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The fact that groups like Hamas insist that they will conquer the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Israel is seen as an impediment to peace by many. The fact that they include all these territories in their emblems is also seen by many as an indication of their territorial ambitions. Jayjg (talk)  15:18, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Jayjg, I was the one who put that table in that section. Could you please, as a sign of good faith, remove the table from the general conflict page (Israeli-Palestinian conflict)?  I tried to do that but I was opposed by Humus_sapiens even though the placement of the table here is more logical.  If you would remove the table, it would be much appreciated.Heraclius 15:27, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I removed the table because there I couldn't find any clear explanation for them. The table simply described some emblems. The only way I could make sense of them is that the table implied that some Palestinian organizations are by there existence an impediment to a Palestinian state. A valid argument but not clearly explained in the article. Sorry I couldn't find anything in the discussion here about them. The table seemed obviously out of place. If the table is to remain, then there should be some explanation as to what it is for. Yodakii 16:29, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it needs to go somewhere. Since Yodakii insists on removing it from here, then the only logical place left is Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jayjg (talk)  16:31, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

'Support of "transfer" aspect'
'The Zionist leaders accepted the proposal, seeing the tiny Jewish state as the seed of a future larger state, though their support of the "transfer" aspect was carefully hidden from the public.' Seems like POV to me. Sagi Ganot, October 17 2005

Merging
We should merge it with the State of Palestine article. (unsigned comment)

We should merge Views of Palestinian statehood here, it's an unnecessary fork. Tazmaniacs 23:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Makes sense to me. Jayjg (talk) 17:18, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Merege State of Palestine too while youre at it. 129.170.107.243 23:45, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't see how you would merge a history of peace attempts with a generally unrecognized "state". I may be missing something here, but it doesn't seem to be making sense (to do that).

It would help to broadcast the opinions over the proposial of the palestinion state.

Why is no one giving their own personal opinion on the matter?
Mine is that The Arab Republic of Egypt should give the Sinai penninsula for Palestinian Government as Sweden for the Lapps OR; Have Israel drop the Siniai penn. I mean the Bible does say that The United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, David, and Solomon renewed shall have then Jesus come back for Christians (or Messiah come for the first time for Jews). So the Judeo-Christian World will have their end sooner. The Gaza Strip was not in this original kingdom.
 * My opinion? The Palestinians should go live with the other Arabs in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and move on, Israel should be left alone and the Palestinians should suck it up and get jobs instead of complaining, the Jews have no problem living with them, its the Palestinians who have the problem, so they shoud either suck it up or leave. All the Palestinians do is complain and cheer when terrosits attack like on 9/11, and the goverments of Iraq and Iran are fueling the Palestinians hatred of the west.
 * My opinion... oh wait, Wikipedia is not a soapbox!! Plus, this article is about a Palestinian State, not the opinionated controversy of the tensions between Israel and some of its neighbors or related issues/conflicts. Many probably have opinions on this matter, but that is what something like a blog is for (and for the sake of Wikipedia, we also must keep articles NPOV). --clearthought 22:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * My opinion is that the palestine should be entitled to gaza and west bank because Isreal won its current territory through conquest(war of independance)and aquired the west bank and gaza through an expantionist, not independanist movements hensforth it is still ocupied palestinian terretory subject to israli control but if the palestinians get gaza and west bank isreal should unaninously get jerusalem so they each win in any agreement but if syria is willing to suck up they could also give palistine the golan heights.

Who declared what?
Cut from article:
 * On October 1, an independent Palestinian state in all of Palestine was declared, with Jerusalem as its capital.

We need to know who declared this state. Passive voice doesn't help the reader at all. I'm looking for something like: Okay, if not the PLO than which organization? And if Jews were welcome, then on what terms, etc? --Uncle Ed 02:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * The PLO declared all the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea (between Egypt and Lebanon) as "an independent Palestinian state" for Arab Palestinians, where Jewish Palestinians would not be welcome.
 * Ed, I am rewording and restoring this sentence. The paragraph talks about The All-Palestine government. The PLO appeared only in 1964. ←Humus sapiens ну? 03:18, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Humus. My editorial request was based on sheer ignorance. I know very little about the Middle East; but "passive sentences aren't acceptable". Oops! I meant, "I hate passive sentences!" :-) --Uncle Ed 14:02, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Update of time-sensitive information needed
I found one paragraph where it indicates that Sharon is still the head of the Knesset and that the PA is ruling as opposed to Hamas. I've quoted it below, and although I don't have the time to fix it, I suggest someone take the time to update it.

"Who will govern? Israel declares that the current Palestinian Authority is corrupt to the bottom, enjoys a warm relationship with Hamas and other Islamic militant movements, and seems at times to call for the destruction of Israel. This makes it, in Israeli perception, unfit for governing any putative Palestinian state or (especially according to the right wing of Israeli politics), even negotiating about the character of such a state. Because of that, a number of organizations, including the ruling Likud party, declared they would not accept a Palestinian state based on the current PA. (Likud's leader, Prime Minister Sharon, has publicly declared that he rejects this position as too radical). A PA Cabinet minister, Saeb Arekat, declared this would mean Israel is waging a "war" against Palestinians to maintain its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza [10]. Some international observers argue that negotiations and internal Palestinian reform can be undertaken simultaneously. " Xfireworksx 03:38, 31 July 2006 (UTC)xfireworksx

Merge from proposal: Palestinian state
I would like to propose that we merge these two articles: The contents of these two articles appear to me to be so similar that it isn't worth trying to maintain them as separate articles. --AbnnTalk 06:33, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Proposals for a Palestinian state
 * Palestinian state

Voting/Comments

 * Support as nominator. --AbnnTalk 07:10, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Support -- a quick look at the edit history suggests that these articles are forks of each other that were the byproduct (probably inadvertent, and I may have had something to do with it) of moving the page back and forth between different titles. This one "Proposals for..." is the one that should remain.  6SJ7 03:42, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Abnn, I haven't looked at the articles, but if you think they should be merged, and no one has objected so far, then you can be bold. nadav (talk) 17:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Being as they cover almost exactly the same material, I see no reason not to. I just came across another old entry which would also fit the bill, Palestinian homeland, and it should also be merged.  Tewfik Talk 01:36, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Support for the reasons mentioned above by others. -- uriber 11:30, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I removed . ..
I removed "Since then, according to polls, the majority of Israelis have come to accept the likelihood that a Palestinian state will be created" because it had no citation and is therefore nothing more than baseless speculation. If there are results of polls that support this conclusion, then they need to be cited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.48.230.34 (talk) 07:44, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Merger completed
I've just merged Palestinian state into this article. I tried to merge as best I could, but a lot of work needs to be done to improve the article, especially the 'Historical proposals and events' section. A lot more references need to be included too. MP (talk•contribs) 17:18, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Map sizes and purpose
Is there any point in having maps where the writing can't be read ? If the intention is to give a general rough picture of the relevant areas, then that's ok, but then the writing becomes redundant. Any help on this point would be welcome. MP (talk•contribs) 17:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Structure of article
I am trying to clean up the article after the recent merger. I am finding this very difficult, as I'm unsure of the precise aim of the article. Clearly, the proposals (historical and current) must be mentioned in some detail, but how much of the history is actually needed ? The history is clearly a part of the convoluted route to establishing a Palestinian state, but there seems to be too much repetition and unnecessary detail. Here's a proposal for the structure of the article: I welcome comments on these points. Thanks. MP (talk•contribs) 16:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The intro. clearly needs a cleanup.
 * Historical background - briefly, for why there are proposals for a Palestinian state in the first place (this section is already there, but may need cleanup or shortening).
 * The actual Historical proposals and events and Current proposals - clearly an integral part of the article. The historical part needs a major rewrite (too much repetition, for example, and way too long at the moment).
 * Impediments to the establishment of a Palestinian state (should be called Obstacles to establishing a Palestinian state or just Obstacles) - clearly needs shortening.
 * The current Peace Process section seems to stand out awkwardly, and should probably be merged into another section(s).
 * Plans for a solution should probably be merged into Current proposals and or Historical proposals
 * The current Historical views section should probably be merged into the article somehow (probably into Historical proposals and events).

text doesn't match map
"96 other nations recognize the State of Palestine. They are listed in the Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority article. These include most Arab League nations, Australia, most African nations, some Eastern European nations, Russia, and several Asian nations, including China and India. "

the text makes it sound like those countries do not recognize Isreal, while the map ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Israel-Palestine_Diplomacy.svg ) shows that almost all of them recognise Isreal (with the exception of some north african countries and arab countries) 76.64.80.109 (talk) 20:04, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Merge
The article State of Palestine used to be part of this article. At some point someone decided to separate them, in order to present the proclaimed State of Palestine as an actual state. This was done based on unreliable sources or misinterpretation of reliable sources. Since the outcome actually conveys false information (there is a long discussion about it on Talk:State of Palestine it is crucial to restore the former state of affair. I would like to remind all of us, that our task is bringing reliable information. Both pro- and anti- Palestinian statehood of all kinds need to have reliable information when addressing the issue, so this should not become a political debate. We are not talking about whether a Palestinian state should be established in the future or should have been established at some point in the past. We are talking about the current state of affairs, and we cannot present an unreliable view of th situation. DrorK (talk) 07:17, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Oppose There are over 1,000 books listed on google that discuss the "State of Palestine". To what extent it is an independent political entity (or not) is irrelevant to the need for a Wiki article on this subject.  T i a m u t talk 10:49, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * And Wikipedia has indeed an article about the subject called "Proposals for a Palestinian state". Why do you suggest two articles about the very same subject? DrorK (talk) 11:35, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know why Wikipedia has an article entitled Proposals for a Palestinian state. It is not an encyclopedic topic (in my opinion) and reads more like the title of an outdated thesis paper. As I've said elsehwere, it should probably be deleted.  T i a m u t talk 18:51, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * It has no citations to any reliable published sources in the "Current Proposals" section. It is quite obviously a POV content fork that is devoid of any content. harlan (talk) 21:55, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Oppose after the mandate was terminated: the Arab Palestinians held their own constituent assemblies; established governments that were acknowledged and recognized by other states; formed and dissolved a union with Transjordan that was acknowledged and recognized by other states; declared a State of Palestine that was acknowledged by the General Assembly of the United Nations; has been recognized as a State by the majority of other States, accompanied by the establishment of embassies and the exchange of ambassadors. It also is a full member of the League of Arab States, a regional organization of the United Nations. It has made a public declaration which said it was a legal state capable of accepting the jurisdiction of the ICC, and its President has publicly declared that the State of Palestine already exists. John Dugard and Paul de Waart explained that under international law it is not anymore a question of creating but of recognizing the State of Palestine, e.g. Those are all very notable published facts. Wikipedia policy on naming articles is contained in Naming conventions. It requires that the most concise and common name be used for an article. The topic of this article is actually proposals for the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. It should be given a more appropriate name. harlan (talk) 17:49, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The information you provide is by and large false. There was no effective Palestinian government following the termination of the British Mandate, and you provided no source to show that such government existed. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was never a federated state. The West Bank was governed from 1949 to 1967 as an integral part of the Hashemite Kingdom. You are trying to present an innovative thesis through Wikipedia. There is no reliable source that claims that an Arab Palestinian state ever existed. The sources you brought to support your thesis are either heavily biased (e.g. written by lawyers who provided legal advices to the Palestinian Authority) or misinterpreted (like your suggestion that the Israeli judiciary recognizes the PA as a state, despite a clear statement by the Israeli Supreme Court that it doesn't). The UN does not recognize Palestine as a state, but rather as a non-state observer. Embassies don't make a state. If a "country" has embassies, but has no defined territory, no defined population, no control over natural resources etc. it is not really a state. DrorK (talk) 19:02, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Another remark about the issue of naming convention - the name of the article should be simple, but it cannot suggest that a state exists when it doesn't. Wikipedias in other languages solved the problem by having names like "Palestinian state", "Palestine (proclaimed state)", i.e. simple names that do not imply false information. DrorK (talk) 19:07, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Does having an article about Santa Claus or Evolution "imply false information"? Should we entitle these articles Santa Claus (mythical figure) or Theory of Evolution to make it clear that they are concepts whose reality is contested. No. Per WP:COMMONNAME, we use the simplest and most common formulation to discuss a given subject, without taking sides in the article title as to its degree of reality or veracity. There is nothing wrong with having an article on the State of Palestine. It really should be entitled Palestine (state) to differentiate it from Palestine (region), given that "Palestine" is the official name of the political entity and the most common formulation used. However, people have resisted that, so we have what we have.  T i a m u t talk 19:19, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The "Current Proposals" section of this article has a grand total of one citation to a site named "http://zionism-israel.com" in connection with a unwritten settlement offer that was advanced by a previous Israeli government. The Netanyahu government has declined to resume talks with Palestinian officials on the basis of previous talks. The State of Palestine article already contains a discussion of Netanyahu's statements regarding conditions for recognition. What relevant sourced information do you propose to merge from this article?


 * You are constantly trying to restate what I've supposedly said, so that you can argue against your own straw man. You apparently are not satisfied with adding material about opposing viewpoints, because you spend all of your time and efforts claiming that something you've discovered or said "completely refutes" or invalidates whatever anyone else has published regarding the subject. I wish you lots of luck with that tactic, but it has nothing to do with the way Wikipedia articles are written. In this case, your assertions don't alter the fact that the governments of other States do consider the Palestinian inhabitants of the Occupied Palestinian territory, and their elected and appointed representatives to be an existing State. The State of Palestine article cites the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, by the Gale Group, Inc., which says the "Jericho Congress" provided "the legal basis for the union of central Palestine (the West Bank and East Jerusalem) with Transjordan (East Bank)." e.g. That idea didn't originate with me or Wikipedia. In 1948 Abdullah was proclaimed King of Arab Palestine. He assumed the legal powers that had been exercised by the former British High Commissioner the laws in effect in the West Bank prior to the termination of the mandate were retained in that jurisdiction. Elections for a joint parliament were held, and an "Act of Union" was adopted in 1950. Many other countries recognized the new entity, "Jordan". Half of the seats of its parliament were reserved for Palestinian lawmakers from the West Bank. There are a multitude of sources which establish those facts, including accounts from the the State of Jordan and from the official archives of the US government. The latter were assembled and published by the editor of the State Department's International Law Digest and the Office of the Historian in the Foreign Relations of the United States series. harlan (talk) 21:50, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * To Tiamut - we could have an article called "Palestine", however this name is also used to refer to a geographical region, and having the name "State of Palestine" does imply the existence of such state. As I said, other Wikipedias tried to avoid such implication when naming their equivalent articles.
 * Harlan - you keep repeating irrelevant or even false information. I showed you why it is irrelevant/false in Talk:State of Palestine, but you keep repeating it. The United States never recognized a state called Palestine. There is no document that support this strange claim. The US recognize the WB&Gaza as a distinct territory, but not as a state. I would be happy to see a letter of recognition on behalf of the US Secretary of State, but you failed to bring a reference to such letter (and such letters are not kept confidential). The fact that King Abdullah I assumed the title "King of All Palestine" is not an indication to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Quite the contrary, in fact. The King of Spain bears many titles, for each county in his Spanish Kingdom, however it would be an absurd to claim that each Spanish county is an independent state. The fact that 50% of the seats in the Jordanian parliament were reserved to delegates from the WB is also not an indication for sovereignty or independence. Many countries have systems of reserved parliamentary seats for certain communities or administrative regions. As I said, you suggest far-fetched interpretation to reliable sources, or bring sideline biased sources to support a thesis or a claim of yours, which you try to promote through Wikipedia. I don't think this approach of yours makes en-wp a better or richer source of information. DrorK (talk) 22:13, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

I notice that whenever I quote the Digest of International Law, the FRUS, and other Encyclopedias verbatim you complain that it is a far-fetched interpretation or false information. Although many other states have made formal announcements that they recognize the State of Palestine, have established embassies, and have exchanged ambassadors and entered into bilateral agreements you think users should have to search for an article about Proposals for a Palestinian state to find that information. You didn't have any success with that tactic at the original research or editor assistance noticeboards. I'd suggest that you try concentrating on content. This article has one outdated citation in its "Current Proposals" section. You have failed to address the fundamental question: "What is the relevant content of this article that deserves to be merged with other articles on Palestine?" harlan (talk) 13:58, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * As I told you before, a state is not a corporation. It does not come into being merely by declarations and opening of embassies. We do not call the Sovereign Military Order of Malta a state, even though it has diplomatic ties that makes it somewhat similar to a state. True, the PLO declared a state in 1988 and this declaration received some recognition, but that's not enough to say there is a state called Palestine. The Digest of International Law includes interpretations of legal experts. With all due respect, these legal opinions are often biased, and they always look at issues through the narrow prism of technical juridic approach. You know that according to technical legal interpretations, Microsoft or Apple are persons, and yet I wouldn't suggest treating them with medications against blood pressure when their shares' prices go up and down anxiously. A state is a geopolitical entity with legal, social, economic, geographic, cultural and political aspects, and you have to consider them all. You've made a lot of far-fetched, or actually false claims based on biased sources (e.g. the opinion of legal advisors to the Palestinian Authority). Among these claims of yours: the British Mandate of Palestine was in fact an Arab Palestinian state (even though its charter said it aimed at establishing Jewish National Home), that King Abdullah I established a Palestinian state (in fact he merely annexed the West Bank to Jordan through a process that had nothing to do with establishing a new state), that the US recognizes Palestine as a country (in fact, it only recognizes the WB&Gaza as a distinct territory for the purpose of registering the origin of important goods and some other similar purposes), that the PA is an implementation of the 1988 declaration (in fact, the PA was never recognized as a state nor proclaimed itself a state, and it currently has very limited control over the WB). These false claims, contained in the "State of Palestine" article should be removed, since our goal here is to convey reliable information, not wishes, ambitions or far-fetched opinions. DrorK (talk) 15:01, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * By the way, the EU countries are represented as if having relations with the "State of Palestine" falling short of full recognition, but in fact, the Swedish Foreign Minister said on behalf of the EU: "I would hope we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state but there has to be one first. So I think that is a bit premature." The European Commission's official website explicitly talk about a "future Palestinian state", so, in fact, Europe does not recognize a state called Palestine at all (though it wishes to see one in the future). I have never seen a letter of recognition on behalf of Russia or any other East-European country. Surely former-communist countries like Poland or Romania cannot extend recognition to the "State of Palestine" now that they are part of the EU that doesn't recognize it at all. The Soviet Union never fully recognized the 1988 declaration , and I saw no evidence that the Russian Federation extended such recognition later on. The fact that there is a Palestinian permanent delegation in Moscow that calls itself an "embassy" is not enough to establish recognition. DrorK (talk) 15:36, 1 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose - It does not matter what editors think about the existence of a state called Palestine, multiple scholarly sources discuss the "State of Palestine". It is a notable topic that merits its own article. Instead of wasting our time with sourceless, rambling, and long-winded posts, Drork could instead provide sources disputing the existence of said state on that page.  nableezy  - 15:50, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Please stick to the point - I never said it wasn't a notable subject, but it is a notable subject that deserve one reliable article, not two articles that contradict one another. In fact, only recently have I learned that there is an explicit policy against it: Content forking. Apparently there are more policy pages than I could imagine, but this policy page is all about common sense. The whole idea of having a separate article called "State of Palestine" was to imply that such state exists in practice, and this is highly debatable to say the least. DrorK (talk) 17:33, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Your point is meaningless, the State of Palestine is a current entity that has been recognized by over 100 other states. The state, not proposals for a future state, is the subject of many scholarly sources. The state, not proposals for a future state, merits its own article. I realize that you may not believe that such a state exists, but there are a multitude of sources that disagree with you. Considering that you have often tried to force your view above the sources (such as calling the Golan Heights "Israeli territory" or saying that they are not occupied) I do not intend to argue with you. Sources are what counts, and if you want to add sources to the state article that support your ideas you are more than welcome. As it is, the sources cited in that article make clear that the state of Palestine is a recognized legal entity that has rights and responsibilities accorded to states.  nableezy  - 17:45, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * And one other thing - your suggestion that I throw statements in the air without sourcing them is highly inappropriate, and almost slanderous. I have pointed out the weaknesses of the sources brought in the "State" article, and brought contradictory sources and evidences. It is all on the talk pages. DrorK (talk) 17:36, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Slanderous my ass. Exactly how many sources have you added to the article? How many have you tried to remove? You try to push your viewpoint that there is not Palestinian state regardless of what sources say, demanding that any source that does not agree with your ideas be removed as unreliable when they are largely published by scholars in peer-reviewed journals or in books published by academic presses or when they are the official records of the states whose views are being cited.  nableezy  - 17:45, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I should remind you that this is Wikipedia. We don't act here upon wishes or ambitions, but try to convey genuine reliable knowledge. I understand you want to see a Palestinian state coming into being, but Wikipedia does not establish states. Similarly, Wikipedia does not decide whether the Golan Heights belong to Israel or to Syria or whether Kashmir belongs to India or Pakistan. This is also not a competition of bringing as much sources as possible. One or two reliable sources are enough if they are reliable, and ten sources can be totally redundant if they are unreliable or very biased. DrorK (talk) 06:34, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, Wikipedia does not make these decisions, the sources do. And the sources here are against your position, just as they were in the Golan Heights argument (I wont call it a dispute as a dispute implies that there are two legitimate positions). Some of the sources are ambiguous on whether a Palestinian state currently exists and some are clear that one does exist, and some say flatly that it does not. If, as you said, one or two reliable sources are enough then you should not be making this merge request. Multiple sources discuss the "State of Palestine" as an individual topic. Yes, some of those sources dispute that either a.) such a state exists, or b.) that the state does exist but in name only. Other sources treat the state as a state. All those sources should be presented in an article on the State of Palestine.  nableezy  - 06:55, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * There is no reliable unbiased source that claims a state called Palestine exists. There are a few that suggest it doesn't exist in practice. There are many claiming such a state should be created. Please look at the sources I've brought, I'm not going to post them over and over again. Similarly, there are no sources seriously claiming that the Golan Heights are currently within the Syrian territory. There are quite a few sources saying it should be within the Syrian territory. There is a huge difference between is and should be. DrorK (talk) 10:07, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * No source is "unbiased" and you completely disregard the sources that disagree with you, calling them either "unreliable", when they are not, or "biased", when that does not matter. And there are thousands of sources that state that the Golan Heights is Syrian territory. I refuse to carry on with an argument with somebody who refuses to accept what countless of high quality sources say, instead saying nonsensical things like "no sources seriously claiming that the Golan Heights are currently within the Syrian territory" when I can find over 100 (all published by academic presses or in peer-reviewed journals) in a few minutes. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 14:29, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

(outdent) Drork, the Restatement (Third) of The Foreign Relations Law of the United States section 201. (h) says"'Determination of Statehood. Whether or not an entity satisfies the requirement for statehood is determined by other states when they decide whether to treat that entity as a state. Ordinarily, a new state is formally recognized by other states'." Can you supply a reliable published source which says that Wikipedia editors can set-up ad hoc courts and veto those decisions? Because if you can't, I'm going to go ahead and report your constant harassment of editors on that topic to WP:AE. harlan (talk) 14:58, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Oppose...obviously. The current state is well-established and arguably fulfills the declarative theory of statehood, as well as many requirements of the constitutive theory as well. As such, it is no longer a "proposal", but rather a polity that is already taking shape, and therefore no longer belongs under this title. This page is free to address discussions of alternative proposals (i.e. One State solutions, etcetera) that are still ongoing. Since the current state exists in practice, and has a significant level of sovereign recognition, it would be extremely and unreasonably biased to diminish the viewpoint of the majority. Since there is no international law that dictates the existence or non-existence of a state, it comes down to reality, and recognition of that existence is left up to the individual sovereign governments. Since a significant portion of those hold the view that the state does exist, and since many believe that the state has fulfilled a criteria for statehood, those viewpoints must be represented.

If you are proposing that the current State of Palestine be displayed under this article as a proposed state, then you are also asking for said state to be removed from this list and this list, which would mean that all other entries of a similar status would have to be removed on the same grounds. You would be introducing a brand new policy on what constitutes a state and how and where Wikipedia should display those that don't meet the criteria. This would broadly affect hundreds of other cases and hence thousands of articles where you would meet with huge opposition from other editors on cases you would never care to delve into. These things have already been consistently established in numerous discussions in the past. What you are proposing, Drork, is ludacris and will never happen. Night w (talk) 16:35, 2 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Even if a "One State Solution" is adopted, the laws and principles of state succession would still require that the Conflict of laws in the public and private sectors be dealt with. Israel has granted a so-called "non-state entity" state immunity and lawmaking powers in the areas of immovable property and criminal law. In many instances, Israel, itself, is still employing Jordanian laws. harlan (talk) 16:47, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Harlan, you are the one who set a Wikipedian Court of Law here and decided that the English Wikipedia should recognize the SoP, based on the sources of your preference, which are by and large biased. At least two of your sources are essays by former or current legal advisors to the PLO or PA. One of your sources also claim that the US rule over Hawaii is illegal. Israel recognized de-facto the legal state-of-affairs in the WB on 4 June 1967. It never recognized a Palestinian state, nor did it ever give sweeping immunity to the PA as a "non-state entity". You simply read sources and gave them false interpretation. You also read a definition in the US law and gave it your own interpretation, disregarding the fact that the authorized US interpretation is different. So what you are suggesting basically, is that we trust false information or original research by you, because you your opinion is better than other's.
 * Night w, all of the countries listed under "countries with limited recognition", except SoP, are de-facto states, namely they exercise full or nearly full control over a defined territory, have defined population of citizens, in addition to other traits of statehood, such as monopoly over the exercise of power, control over the borders, enforcing law and order independently and often even having an independent economic system. This is the case of Somaliland, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and ever Western Sahara has a certain small territory under the control of its proclaimed government. The SoP is a different case altogether - this is a state that was declared, partially recognized, but never exercised control over defined territory (in fact, it never even defined its territory), never defined its population of citizens (no one can tell you for sure that he is a citizen of the SoP, there is no registry of Palestinian citizenship), never had an independent legal system or even independent economic system. This situation was best described by the Swedish Foreign Minister who talked on behalf of the EU saying that the EU would be happy to recognize a Palestinian state had there been one. DrorK (talk) 17:37, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * That's great. But apparently, the view that the current Palestinian state does meet (whichever) criteria is a widely-held one. So as long as that is the viewpoint of the majority, and as long as it has been recognised as a state by even one other, you're wasting your breath here and I won't argue on the matter any further. Night w (talk) 05:19, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * And this is where you are wrong. Most reliable unbiased sources brought in this discussion maintain that such a state does not exist. The sources that were brought to support the opposite claim are mostly the opinion of jurists who acted as legal advisors to the Palestinian Authority. Naturally their opinion is biased. Other sources brought here are non-compelling statements that are not compatible with the official statements. DrorK (talk) 06:16, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Can you direct me to these sources, please. I'd also like to see your rationale behind calling the opinions of 110 sovereign governments biased. That is what I refer to when I say "viewpoint of the majority". Night w (talk) 03:12, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * As I said before, 110 or just 1 (lets say Costa Rica)—the number doesn't matter. The opinion that it has achieved statehood still has to be represented as long as it exists, no matter who or what theories about law disagree. I'm out. From the looks of things below, your "debate" has now moved on to Hawaii. I don't think you're trying to improve any article here; I think you're just disrupting at this point. I'm not humouring you any longer, and—as I said before—your proposal will never happen. Night w (talk) 03:51, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * We don't know that 110 states extended recognition to SoP. This is a claim, not a fact. Apparently neither the Soviet Union nor the Russian Federation ever recognized SoP. The Republic of Austria didn't recognized it either. It "welcomed" the 1988 declaration, but it never referred to "Palestine" as a state. The Republic of Lebanon recognized SoP only in 2008 even though it appears as if extended the recognition before that. I suspect there are many more cases of disinformation and misinterpretation of diplomatic statements. I know Yasser Arafat claimed in 1989 that Austria extended recognition to SoP even though he heard the Austrian Foreign Minister's statement about Palestine and the Austrian Minister did not talk about recognition. Namibia is said to have recognized SoP in 1988, even though there were no Namibian state at the time. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Arafat and other Palestinian officials "inflated" the list of recognizing countries based on misinterpretations. In any case, we cannot trust the lists they issued. In addition, some of the countries that allegedly recognized SoP do not exist anymore: East Germany, Czechoslovakia and several others. Some countries like Romania and Poland, whether or not they actually recognized SoP, are now part of the EU and obligated to its foreign policy. The EU does not recognize SoP whatsoever. There is a detailed account with links on Talk:State of Palestine (start from the last section, where most of the information is). DrorK (talk) 08:43, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

(outdent) Drork you seem to be completely ignorant of the fact that the US government adopted a public law in which it apologized for overthrowing the lawful indigenous government of the Kingdom of Hawaii, US Public Law 103-150. The House of Representatives has adopted the Senate version of the "The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009 S1011/HR2314" which aims to reorganize and recognize a native entity identified as the "Kingdom of Hawaii".. Boyle is the legal advisor to the "Nation of Hawaii". Like any good lawyer he advised them to exercise their right to self-determination and self-government, and to negotiate for a fair share of their public lands, return of stolen communal property, for gaming rights, & etc.

I've repeatedly invited you to add sourced content or significant viewpoints to the SoP article, and pointed out that this article has no content in the current proposals subsection. If I ever decide to setup a Court I'll let you know, but I doubt that is ever going to happen. harlan (talk) 05:08, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Harlan, look at the article Kingdom of Hawaii - does it suggest that a Kingdom by this name exists today? Look at the article Hawaii - does it imply that Hawaii is an independent state? Now, look at the article Akaka Bill. It says in the lead "The bill proposes to establish a process for indigenous Native Hawaiians to gain federal recognition similar to an Indian tribe." Look at the aforementioned statute itself. It says: "Nothing in this Joint Resolution is intended to serve as a settlement of any claims against the United States.". Finally, look at what Francis Boyle says about this aforementioned statute: "When I read the public law for the first time, the first thought that occurred to me is that now the United States government, after one hundred years, has finally and officially conceded, as a matter of United States law, that Native Hawaiian people have the right to restore the independent nation state that you had in 1893 when the United States government came and destroyed it. And also then that as a matter of international law the Native Hawaiian people have the right to go out now and certainly proclaim the restoration of that state. I'm not talking about the State of Hawai'i as part of the United States of America. Rather I am talking about an independent state under international law, and ultimately someday a member of the United Nations organization and other international organizations." . Do you think we should treat Fracis Boyle's essays as reliable source after offering such a bizarre interpretation to the US and international law? Do you think we can trust his opinion when he says that a state called Palestine already exist? I just hope his advisory to the PA was better. DrorK (talk) 07:43, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes Drork, I think we should treat Boyle as a reliable source. The United States just told Serbia that it doesn't get a veto over the independence of Kosovo. The EU Ministers told Israel the same thing regarding Palestine. The same principle of law applies to "Hawaiians", "Indian Country", the so-called "dependent nations" in the US, and etc. harlan (talk) 08:35, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't ask what your personal opinion about the international law was. I asked you if we can trust a jurist that offers such strange interpretations to laws. You can write an academic thesis if you like, but this is WP. You base a great deal of your claims on Boyle, but apparently he cannot be regarded a reliable source, because he uses extremist interpretation to international law issues. DrorK (talk) 08:48, 4 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Drork the United States helped establish the principle that self-determination of peoples was a norm of international law. "In view of the importance of the rights involved, all States can be held to have a legal interest in their protection; they are obligations erga omnes." Francis Boyle didn't write the ICJ decision in the Barcelona Traction case or the UDHR/ICCPR/ICESCR (the International Bill of Rights). harlan (talk) 09:24, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * You didn't answer my question - do you expect us to take Boyle as a reliable source, when he suggests that the United States declared itself illegitimate governor of Hawaii? If these are the kind of analyses that he provides, how can we regard him a reliable source? Do you have an answer to this question? And don't bring me another far-fetched legal interpretation. You've brought too many of these already. DrorK (talk) 14:02, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * PS - President Obama was born in Hawaii, is he legitimate president per Boyle? DrorK (talk) 14:03, 4 February 2010 (UTC)


 * You need to stop using Wikipedia to defame living persons just because you are clueless about so-called "domestic dependent nations" or Tribal sovereignty in the United States. The United States has many existing treaty agreements with native or indigenous groups that guaranteed their rights to their territories. The US is a contracting party of the ICERD/ICCPR/ICESCR. The other UN member states have a longstanding legal interest in that connection under Chapter XI of the UN Charter, which contained the Declaration regarding Non-Self-Governing Territories and their peoples. That obligation was in full effect before the US admitted Hawaii to the union. In many instances, the United States is in breach of that and its other obligations under those treaty agreements. The State Department and the Congress have been tasked with remedying those situations, e.g. and


 * Do you have any contributions that are relevant to this article yet? harlan (talk) 19:17, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Being rude is not helpful, Harlan. You are the one who dragged us into this mess by writing a non-Wikipedian article, and now you point your finger at me. We are discussing the reliability of Boyle here, not the status of Hawaii. What Mr. Boyle said about Hawaii (see quotes above) makes him an unreliable source, for the issue of SoP too. Just as an illustration, by the logic of his articles, President Obama's presidency is illegitimate, and your additional information about Hawaii does not make this source look more reliable. The other source you've brought are not better.
 * Now, to all people who joined this discussion, let me make some things clear: I never suggested we should ignore SoP. That would be very wrong. However, we cannot present it as an existing state, certainly not based on weak sources like Boyle or unverified lists of countries that allegedly recognized such state. What we need to do is the following:
 * Merging the articles "State of Palestine" and "Proposals for a Palestinian state". The best name for such article would be "Palestinian state" or "Palestine (proclaimed state)".
 * In the merged article, we should be careful not to give undue weight to some far-fetched claims that currently appear in the SoP article, such as (1) the British Mandate of Palestine was a predecessor of an Arab Palestinian state (2) the PLO's 1988 declaration in Algiers practically established a Palestinian state (3) Most countries in the world recognize a state called Palestine (4) The Palestinian National Authority is in fact the government of the State of Palestine.
 * The above-mentioned positions clearly exist, but they are very problematic, and I had take this discussion as far as Hawaii in order to show you why. There are very reliable sources written in simple language that contradict this claim, and you can see the links above. One thing should be made clear - this issue should not be taken as political. One can strive for Palestinian statehood and believe that this is a necessary solution, and yet he has to know such a state does not exist yet. One can oppose the idea of Palestinian statehood, and he too needs a clear picture of the state-of-affairs. We are not offering such a clear picture at this point. DrorK (talk) 09:38, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Declaration of state in 2011
I have commented out this section as it is unsourced future speculation and accordingly not in line with WP:BALL and as a controversial subject it is most important that content is sourced and verifiable.--Wintonian (talk) 22:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Problems with map in "Parties which recognize a Palestinian entity separate from Israel"
The colors of the map don't agree with the legend below. Benwing (talk) 22:52, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Original research in recognition section
There is an unsourced editorial and analysis that claims there are conflicting reports on the number of states that recognize Palestine, but the sources cited in the article do not say that. They also do not mention the relevance of Namibian independence, or acceptance of existing recognition by successor states. For example, embassies of the "State of Palestine" still exist in successor states like the Russian Federation, the Czech Republic, , and etc. harlan (talk) 20:48, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

New edit on West Bank-Gaza corridor
The Jerusalem Center has added this block. Unfortunately it has numerous policy issues. First off, WP:NOT and WP:NPOV--this is a speculative opinion piece, which also frequently violates Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. I've highlighted below text that is essay-ish rather than enecyclopedia, speculative, or argumentative.

The idea of a territorial link between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, commonly called the issue of “safe passage,” is often overlooked. The implications of a Palestinian corridor across Israel can be immense. ''It is vital to note that the criterion of a defined territory does not require that the state possess geographical unity. A state may consist of disconnected territorial areas, and may be comprised of separated territories between which lies territory of a foreign entity.  Based on past and present international practice, a state does not possess an inherent right to a link between its geographically distinct areas. U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 makes no mention of a territorial link between Gaza and the West Bank. '' The notion of safe passage is first mentioned in the Oslo-era Gaza-Jericho Agreement article on security arrangements. With arms and terrorists being smuggled from Egypt into Gaza through the Philadelphi Corridor, and a possible safe passage modality enabling transit to the West Bank, all forms of attacks in Israel (and from the West Bank) are likely to increase. The presence of European monitors as part of the Border Assistance Mission could assuage the threat to Israel. Unfortunately Israel’s off-putting experiences during the 1967 war with various U.N. peacekeeping missions have made the country wary of relying on these forces. 309 Qassam rocket attacks and 1,231 mortar attacks occurred in Israel in 2004. Between September 12 and 18, 2005, over five tons of explosives, 200 anti-tank grenades, 350 anti-tank rockets, and an unspecified number of anti-aircraft missiles were smuggled into Gaza from Egypt. Israel therefore has legitimate security concerns arising out of the various proposals for implementing safe passage between Gaza and the West Bank.

Though some insist upon a territorial link between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which would be in derogation of Israeli sovereignty, Israel is not required to accede to this unprecedented demand. If the Palestinians were to constructively address these concerns, such as by dismantling the terror infrastructure as required by the Roadmap, Israel’s anxiety could be assuaged. An in-depth study into this issue has been formulated by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and can be found here

Now, if the POV of JCPA is notable, the issue is relevant to this page, and that POV is balanced with others, this passage could be reworked. It will probably be a lot shorter, and less speculative. It must identify and attribute points of view that are mentioned in it.--Carwil (talk) 22:29, 12 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Also, Wikipedia has provisions against self promotion and sentences like the last one here are inappropriate. Perhaps another editor who thinks this material is relevant could re-write it...--Carwil (talk) 22:31, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

History of the State of Palestine
This article doesn't seem to have had much attention in recent months, but could be repositioned to fit better within the group of Palestine-topic article. I would like to suggest that it is renamed to become History of the State of Palestine, and merged with additional detail from State_of_Palestine, Palestinian_National_Authority and Political status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Any comments? Oncenawhile (talk) 20:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose move because the name is misleading and has an unclear meaning. Proposals for a Palestinian state is a clearly defined topic, while History of the State of Palestine is not. Also, I am moving back the article per WP:BRD. Also note that it is recommended to take controversial movie discussions to the relevant WikiProjects, WP:RM, or both—and wait for input from other editors, at least 7 days, or both. —Ynhockey (Talk) 20:12, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * There have been many proposals regarding a Palestinian state, not all relating to the state declared in 1988.  Night w   16:58, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I've heard that argument used on Wikipedia before but I don't understand it - there were many proposals for a Jewish State (or homeland), and they all form part of the History of the State of Israel. This article only exists in this form due to a historical editor debate which ultimately created the State of Palestine article. Once the edit debate finished, this article lost its direction and is now a rudderless mess. Oncenawhile (talk) 22:31, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Not exactly sure what you're saying here. There actually is a Proposals for a Jewish state article, and there is no History of the State of Israel article. The article History of Israel gives only basic outlines for the proposals for a Jewish state. —Ynhockey (Talk) 08:43, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
 * P.S. Just realized you were replying to Night w, so half my comment was irrelevant. I redacted the comment. —Ynhockey (Talk) 08:45, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Obstacles section
As it stands, this section adds nothing to the article. The opening sentence is a summary so generalised as to be pointless and the only content in the section represents only one POV with nothing to counterbalance it. It also adds no factual content as to why there would be an obstacle here, merely stating someones' opinion on the matter. I'll be bold and delete the section but if anyone has a differing view I'm happy to be persuaded of its value. BothHandsBlack (talk) 17:08, 4 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I think you made the right call. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 20:09, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Rtnews template
I've removed the Russia today news template from the page, as it had raised concern because it pointed to a single trending news page, rather than a selection of trend pages, and after discussion in the appropriate places, it's easier to remove it than it is to add lots of other trend pages, as I don't know of any (don't have time to look). If there are any comments, concerns, or suggestions please reply on my talkpage, as I don't watch this page. Penyulap  ☏  02:14, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Proposals for a Palestinian state
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Proposals for a Palestinian state's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "aljazeera.com":<ul> <li>From Gaza Strip: </li> <li>From State of Palestine: Palestine: What is in a name (change)? Al Jazeera, 8 Jan 2013.</li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 13:48, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Peace Process - Road Map
The section on the Road Map within the peace process seems slanted. It ignores Israel's obligations under the Road Map such as a settlement freeze and the effect of Israel's non-implementation of such a freeze stating that the Road Map's failure was due to "the civil war between Hamas and Fatah" despite the fact that the Hamas page itself says that this Hamas-Fatah conflict started in 2006 - 3 years after the Road Map. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.234.82.114 (talk) 16:58, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Lead
There has been a little bit of edit warring/reverting a specific edit in the lead. I'm not sure I would call it POV, but it should be discussed before the changes are made. It appears that main issues are: the difference between "establishment" and "creation;" whether or not Palestinians are a separate people or simply Arabs living in the region of Palestine; and the difference between "occupied" and "captured." These are all valid distinctions that should be discussed before any future changes are made to the article. So, please discuss the rationale for your changes and aversion to such changes, and I'll lend some opinions as well. Goalie1998 (talk) 11:10, 30 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I started discussing the changes on my Talk page at User talk:Malik Shabazz. — MShabazz Talk/Stalk 11:15, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Move it over to here? Goalie1998 (talk) 11:21, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd appreciate that. I'm using a phone and I can't copy and paste. Thank you. — MShabazz Talk/Stalk 11:25, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

I recently received a message from you stating the following:

"Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. — MShabazz"

The article you are referring to is Proposals for a Palestinian State.

However, by you actions in deleting the information, you are suppressing information, which goes against the essence of Wikipedia.

For example, where the article uses the term "West Bank" I also included the term "Judea and Samaria" which is an another term for this area. I never deleted the term West Bank, but simply added more information. By deleting the extra information you are in fact the one who is adding your own personal analysis.

Simply deleting terms that you do not want in an article, for whatever reason, especially when that term is linked to a another legitimate wikipedia page is suppression of information.

Gazmie (talk) 14:02, 29 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello Gazmie. I reverted your changes to Proposals for a Palestinian State, which you made on Friday and again today, because they violated Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy (abbreviated NPOV). For example:
 * You changed "an independent state for the Palestinian people" to "a State of Palestine for the Palestinian arabs". Denying the existence of the Palestinian people is a serious NPOV violation.
 * You deleted the location of the proposed state, "Palestine". Denying the existence of Palestine is also a serious NPOV violation.
 * You changed the location of the proposed state from "land that was occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967" to "lands captured by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War". Denying the Occupation is another serious NPOV violation.
 * You added the name "Judea and Samaria Area" after the term "West Bank". While you believe this makes the article more neutral, most other people disagree. A few years ago, a group of Wikipedia editors reviewed the relevant reliable sources and concluded:
 * "'West Bank' or 'the West Bank' (capitalized) is the most commonly used name for the land area known by that name...."
 * "When discussing specifically the administrative area of Judea and Samaria, in the context of that administration and not merely referring to a specific land area, the term 'the administrative area of Judea and Samaria' or Judea and Samaria Area (with the last word capitalised as here) may be used, subject to clause 6 below, namely that it cannot be used without qualification as though it is the neutral point of view." (see WP:WESTBANK)
 * In other words, on Wikipedia, "West Bank" is considered neutral and "Judea and Samaria Area" is used only when referring to the Israeli administrative area. Since Fatah doesn't administer the "Judea and Samaria Area"—nor is it likely to ever administer such an area—to change a sentence to say "the West Bank / Judea and Samaria Area, which is administered by the Fatah faction of the Palestinian National Authority" (as you did) is factually incorrect and considered non-neutral on Wikipedia.
 * If you have further questions, please feel free to ask. As an alternative, you can post a message at WikiProject Israel or WikiProject Palestine, where other editors can participate in the discussion. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:02, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Would it be acceptable to change the sentence, "...for the Palestinian people in Palestine on land that was occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967 and prior to that year for 18 years (1949) by Egypt (Gaza) and by Jordan (West Bank)." to something along the lines of "for the Palestinian people on land that has been occupied by Israel since its capture from Egypt (Gaza) and Jordan (West Bank) after the Six-Day War of 1967."?
 * I believe it still maintains the neutral point of view, while also addressing some of the issues Gazmie raises.
 * I will not address whether or not Palestinians are ethnically/genetically/actually/theoretically... different from Arabs, because I don't believe that this article is the forum for such a change (if a change is even necessary at all).
 * Palestine today encompasses the Palestinian Territories, as well as Israel, so I don't think that stating that the Palestinian people want to establish a state in Palestine is necessary - it is a little redundant to me.
 * The West Bank and Gaza were not viewed as occupied from 1948-1967 (as far as I can tell they were annexed by the respective countries? But I am open to comment on that), which is why I removed that, and were captured from Egypt and Jordan after the war. I left in occupying to show that the international community still views it as an occupation.
 * Judea and Samaria is a term used by Israel for the same area known as the West Bank, and not by most of the international community, so I do not support that change.
 * Goalie1998 (talk) 12:05, 30 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this, Goalie1998. I don't have any objection to your formulation, although I seem to remember that some editors were insistent that the lead mention how long Jordan and Egypt had occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, respectively. I'm hesitant to make any changes before we hear from Gazmie, because I'm still not sure what her/his concerns are. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 21:35, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your support on this. Gazmie has been blocked for another day and a half. I'm willing to wait, in the mean time, I'll make the changes? I wasn't aware of the past issues with Egyptian and Jordanian occupation, but I don't have a problem reworking that in. Let me know if that works for you. Goalie1998 (talk) 23:08, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

recent changes
Occupied is the word used to describe the Palestinian territories in reliable source and here on Wikipedia. And five Arab countries did not "invade" Palestine, and that issue is discussed amply elsewhere. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 16:55, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The five Arab states that joined the war were Egypt, Jordan (Transjordan), Syria, Lebanon and Iraq sending expeditionary forces of their regular armies. Additional contingents came from Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
 * Additionally, it may be interesting to note that the current occupation could be attributed to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Had the Arabs at the time accepted the UN Partition Plan there would today be a Palestinian State. OR, if Egypt and Jordan granted the Palestinian People a state instead of occupying and annexing the land, respectively I believe, there would also probably be a state. But those are just my interpretations of the events, and have no bearing on the edits in question. It is, however, interesting that more weight isn't put on the time period between 1948 and 1967 when Israel did not have any territorial control over the areas that are currently being occupied. Goalie1998 (talk) 15:15, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:SOAP. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 18:35, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Like I said, just interpretations that have no bearing on the edits. I left my views out of the article. What is not my interpretation, however, and is fact is that five Arab countries did invade Palestine in 1948. There is no question about that. And my suggestion to put more weight on the time period when Arab countries controlled the lands destined for a Palestinian State for 18 years without granting it a state isn't really soapboxing, just an interesting observation that I don't think many other editors have thought of. Goalie1998 (talk) 23:41, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * My point of that link was to say that it would be better if we left our own views out of the talk page as well as the article. There are any number of places on the internet where people can discuss and debate the topic, this however is not one. Regarding the point though, lets take a look. Five Arab countries invaded Palestine you say. Well, the Arab Legion never entered any territory included in the Jewish state under the partition, nor dfid the Jordanian army. The Egyptian Army did bomb Tel Aviv, but I dont know if that qualifies as an invasion as their ground troops stopped at Isdud (now Ashdod, then allocated as part of the Arab area under the partition plan). Those Arab forces were called for by the Arab leaders in Palestine, so I dont think you can say they invaded that territory. They may well have liked to continue into what was allocated for the Jewish state, but they didnt. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 00:19, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

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Im correcting those issues. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 18:39, 2 July 2015 (UTC) //
 * gained by Israel - no, they were not, they have been occupied by Israel.
 * part on who controls what - not really relevant and beyond that inaccurate
 * Added the - not proper grammar.
 * Correction done - typos and grammos of the lead fixed - and edits due to (WP:LEAD) // gained by Israel-> occupied by Israel // part on who controls what: -> shortened + sourced // Added the - not proper grammar.: -> "The term .. refers to" // "The permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people over the natural resources of the Palestinian territories has been recognized by 139 countries," -> taken out - not really relevant & due to WP:LEAD & needs citation anyway --Miraclexix (talk) 06:24, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Somewhat expanded the lead due to many former WP:LEAD issues. I did attempt to sort the synoptic sentences/statement/ according to historical emergence and logic blocks. My attemt is aimed as an sourced NPOV one -- I would like to get help and edits from others. Please do not simply revert if you do not want to give work/edits back, and an actually read of WP:LEAD could help. Thank you, I see positively forward to constructive suggestions and critique :) --Miraclexix (talk) 07:57, 3 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Your edits are POV pushing at its worst. Please stop. — MShabazz Talk/Stalk 14:30, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * That is an expression of a personal sentiment, could you please give input to argue about in a constructive way, particularely in view that you actually reverted to a typo/grammo prone version of the lead section, see WP:LEAD please. And please explain yourself, otherwise I had to regard your actions, without explanations/arguments at all, as WP:UNCIVIL and would request, that you abstain from your involvement here. In other words, give your sweat/work or restrain, please.  --Miraclexix (talk) 21:22, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

There are a ton of problems with this article, many of which pre-date the recent edits. Besides the factual issues, its just a really poorly written introduction to the subject. Part of it comes from the reflex of needing to use the article name as the first words of the article, but there are factual issues in it too. Im going to try to list the problems I think that are in there and try to address those, but heres a partial list: Im going to try to re-write the lead later on, and if somebody objects they can revert but I think the lead as it stands is kinda terrible. No offense to the collaborative process that brought it to its current state of course. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 06:33, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * First sentence is poorly worded, current administration isnt accurate (Fatah doesnt administer the West Bank, the PNA, or officially the State of Palestine now I guess, administers Area A and partially Area B, not at all in Area C), and besides I dont see why which party runs what needs to be in the lead
 * The Israeli military commander exercises usufructuary rights in accordance with international law, but it is not the legal sovereign of the disputed territory., well yes Israel is supposed to act as administrator and usufructuary over a number of things in the occupied territory, but thats not really all that relevant to the topic and doesnt seem to add any real information. Israel is the occupying power is much more encompassing of the issue and more to the point.
 * Under agreements reached with Israel, the Palestinian Authority exercises de jure control over many natural resources, while interim cooperation arrangements are in place for others. I guess it works with the previous sentence, but if anything these two sentences are either unnecessary detail for a lead or need to be much better flushed out in the body. As it stands, as far as I can tell, these are the only two sentences that have anything to do with natural resources besides one line that says a particular proposal doesnt address natural resources.
 * Thank you, Nableezy for your words, something to argue about, at least. Could we work together and take the WP:LEAD as base? Would you mind to agree on this? As you seem buisy and do not try to rewrite the articles lead section, I will try a version according to your suggestions. Please come in and fix/ad as you like. --Miraclexix (talk) 21:22, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Constructive, agreed uppon changes made so far:
 * "First sentence is poorly worded," Typos/Grammos out
 * "use the article name as the first words of the article" - that's how articles start in WP, pal
 * "for the Palestinian people " this was a racist/apatheid statement, it needs source at least, who ever said that the Palestine state was for Palestinians only?
 * The Israeli military commander exercises usufructuary rights in accordance with international law, but it is not the legal sovereign of the disputed territory., taken out so far.
 * Nableezy, your statement "Israel is the occupying power is much more encompassing of the issue and more to the point" contradicts your say: "Palestine now I guess, administers Area A and partially Area B" - so a version/rewrite sensitive to both truths would be necessary here. BTW it is in disregard of NPOV and WP:LEAD, at least
 * "Under agreements reached with Israel, the Palestinian Authority exercises de jure control over .." and your statement :"these are the only two sentences that have anything to do with natural resources", actually I agree. -- So I hope this would make a minimum starting point. --Miraclexix (talk) 21:48, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * If this is going to stay close to as is, you must update it show that both the PLO and PNC have amended their views towards Israel, and as such no longer have those claims. Goalie1998 (talk) 22:14, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Uh no, that isnt how articles start, pal. And your edits are incredibly tendentious, removing even the pretext of neutrality. A racist/apartheid statement? Jesus christ. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 00:31, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I re-wrote the lead. Ive removed the citations as they arent needed in a lead, and ill work on the rest of the article in a bit. But I dont think any of the changes i made should be controversial, i think the lead i wrote is fair and factual without the spin that characterizes the recent changes to it. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 00:53, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Because this is a relatively hot topic, I think at least some citations should remain in the lead. Goalie1998 (talk) 01:15, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Ill add if necessary, but in general lead sections dont require citations. They supposed to be summaries of whats cited below, but Ill work on that. Any objection to the rewrite though? <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 03:31, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * First of all, thank you for the fine re-write, Nableezy!
 * Thank you, Goalie, for your contributions!
 * Nableezy, Your are right in general WP leads do not require citations _except_ the lead content was highly controversial/hot/debated. In that case I too (w/Goalie) would like to have citations in it - at least some.
 * I argue that the sentences were too long. In order to be readable/accessible by children/youngsters/un-educated/foreigners even disabled persons, they should stay shorter and focussed. I tried a fix on this.
 * To me, the use of the pronomen 'Palestinian' is too abundant. In its historical context simple Arab or Palestine should be more appropriate, because Palestinian as a denomination for 'Palestine Arabs' emerged noticable only around 64-67 and after. So i.e. 47 Arabs did by no means call themselves already Palestinians, and if so it would have been the denomination for Jews,Druze,Bedouin also.
 * Second Arab-Israeli War actually is not correct, see Arab–Israeli_conflict
 * within territorial dispute. added because factually it is/was/will be within dispute
 * members of the international community not a clearly defined term -it is en-vogue, though. It is redundant. & there has been a rapid increase in the recognition of this proclaimed state.  is a subjective statement, maybe original research.
 * The international community considers those territories to continued to be occupied by Israel today, -- out of the lead section, because it is not represented in the article elsewhere. It is also redundant, because it says 1 sentence above, that Israel occupied... --> changed to NPOV "In 2005, Israel left the Gaza Strip according to its unilaterally disengagement plan. "
 * newly declared state of Israel changed to newly recognized - as a matter of fact (w/ wikilink) --Miraclexix (talk) 15:26, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * No, this is nonsense. The Palestinian territories are occupied by Israel, and this territorial dispute euphemism is a straightforward violation of WP:NPOV. You are removing a super-majority view and replacing that with the Israeli line that these are "disputed territories". And the line on the disengagement is not NPOV, it does not reflect the super-majority view on the matter. Israel did not leave Gaza, they redeployed and they continue to control its airspace, territorial waters and nearly every land crossing. Your personal distaste for the word Palestinian is curious considering the name of the article you are editing. And finally, that is several reverts past the 1 revert rule. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 17:09, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I have to say, I support this current revision. It is a pretty accurate summary, and seems to be NPOV to me. Goalie1998 (talk) 17:28, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Which current revision? The changes made by Miraclexix have several problems. Heres a list: The changes made are factually deficient, poorly written, and non-neutral. Not calling 67 the second Arab-Israeli war, sure fine, I didnt consider Suez. The rest of it though, its poorly written and a distortion of the issues. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 18:38, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * within territorial dispute replacing on either a portion of or the entirety of the Palestinian territories, meaning the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which have been held by Israel under military occupation following their capture from Egypt and Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. First off, that's not really English. Second, where is this supposed to happen? Some random territory under dispute? Third, whats the current status of the territory. All these questions are wiped aside strictly to avoid including the fact that the territories under discussion are commonly known as the Palestinian territories and that they are held under Israeli occupation. Its an old move, saying wait these arent "occupied territories" they are "disputed territories". Well, whether or not there is a dispute over the territories doesnt negate that they are occupied by Israel, and that it is a super-majority view that the territory is occupied by Israel.
 * In 2005, Israel left the Gaza Strip according to its unilaterally disengagement plan, and the Israeli military commander exercises usufructuary rights in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) in accordance with international law, but is not the legal sovereign of the disputed territory. replaces The international community considers those territories to continued to be occupied by Israel today, however Israel considers its occupation of the Gaza Strip to have ceased when it unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in 2005. First, the easy one, using Judea and Samaria like this is a straightforward violation of WP:WESTBANK. Second, the usufructuary line is pointless, it has next to nothing to do with the topic. Third, the change makes it so that only the Israeli view is included here. That is a straightforward violation of WP:NPOV. And again, this disputed territory euphemism. Please note that I did not shy away from calling Egypts control of Gaza occupation or for that matter Jordan's control of the West Bank and EJ.
 * We do not have agreement on all of the lead section from my side (reflected in my reverted edits). There are still issues and incorrect statements and incorrect wikilinks.
 * territorial dispute stands beside the mention that Israel military occupied.., it is a statement of the upheld opinion of 1 side of the conflict, for balance, both side should be represented, hence no violation of WP:NPOV. This should be addressed, like: "Israel helds that ..." Not mention all views of the dispute _would be in effect_ violating WP:NPOV.
 * 2005 Gaza disengagement  it is a matter of fact and should be addressed in a neutral way.
 * "international community.." statement needs sources
 * The dispute from yes/no occupation of Gaza and still in effect control of Gaza borders and air, is due to the nature of the islamic (fundamentalist) Gaza dictatorship. UN does not trust them and Egypt also does control Gaza's air and borders - so in your logic Egypt was an occupying state, too then?
 * Yes the 1RR rule trapped me, though it was under 3RR and I did the 2 consequent edits in *good faith*, like subsection by subsection for clarity reasons, could have done it in 1 edit. I meant to cooperate with you, picking up your edits and adjusting them. (Was noticed of the 1RR by and senior editor, after my edits, I am sorry)
 * "Palestinian": I hold that it should be used more sensitive to its historical background, because its meaning changed over time and therefore the most precise and sensitive term should be used, this could mean to use the pronomen Palestine instead.
 * I again, argue that the sentences are too long. In order to be readable/accessible by children/youngsters/un-educated/foreigners even disabled persons, they should stay shorter and focused not using unsoured adjectives like "rapid" etc...
 * Second Arab-Israeli War actually is not correct numbering in reference to the Six-Day-War (1967)
 * The international community considers those territories to continued to be occupied by Israel today, -- out of the lead section, because it is not represented in the article elsewhere. It is also redundant and would need un-biased sources..
 * newly declared state of Israel should be changed to newly recognized - as a matter of fact
 * If the strong and highlighted statement of "Israel occupying" is left in it needs a balance with the "usufructuary rights" statement edited out.
 * Last question, why you call my proposals "nonsense"? Lets get to a civil level of discussion. --Miraclexix (talk) 19:01, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Territorial dispute is a euphemism, an extreme-minority view. That is abundantly clear to anybody who has even scratched the surface of the available sources. It is a super-majority view that the Palestinian territories are under Israeli occupation. Where Israel actually disputes that it occupies the territory (Gaza) the text makes that clear. A line could be added about EJ. But calling it some territory under dispute is lifting up an extreme minority view as though it were fact; in other words a non-starter
 * The disengagement is addressed in a neutral way. The UN, the ICRC, and a ton of scholarly sources continue to consider Gaza occupied territory as Israel exercises effective military control over the territory. Israel disputes that. Here's an excerpt from a report from the office of the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court. Heres CNN reporting on the UN position.
 * Palestinian in common usage, today, refers to Palestinian Arab. It is a precise term, and I dont intend to argue over its sensitivity. Especially when somebody thinks it "sensitive" to deny that title to a people.
 * This is an encyclopedia article, not a children's book. There's a wikipedia for children and others for whom English is not their first language ([simple.wikipedia.org simple wp]), but this purports to be a serious source, and serious sources can have long sentences with long words and clauses with sub-clauses and so on and so forth.
 * Thats been changed to 1967 war.
 * Ill expand the body to cover that, but that is not even a little bit controversial. There is no dispute that the international community considers the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. The dispute only exists when people for whatever reason insist on not applying plain, factual, widely-used descriptions when dealing with Israel. Im not going to begin to discuss why people do this, but there are hundreds of sources backing up that line, and if I need to I will cite a hundred sources.
 * Well no, it shouldnt be. In the context of that sentence what matters is that Israel was declared. When talking about relations with other countries what matters is recognition.
 * Why call it nonsense? Well, forgive me, but replacing occupied with disputed has been a long running game on Wikipedia, and I frankly lost the patience to deal with argument some number of years ago. People dont like calling the occupied Palestinian territories occupied. That doesnt matter, the overwhelming majority of sources are clear on this point, and the personal feelings of a collection of people on the internet does not matter at all to me and should not matter at all as far as the content of a wikipedia article is concerned. There are hundreds and hundreds of sources on this, and nearly all of them come down on one side, Israel holds the Palestinian territories under belligerent occupation. Hell, for the West Bank at least even the Israeli Supreme Court agrees. But that isnt enough for some people on this website, people whose purpose here is seemingly to whitewash all language regarding Israel and the Palestinians. I, having dealt with this for quite a while, and having done the requisite reading to gain at least somewhat of an understanding of the topic, do not have the patience to deal with such a simple issue anymore. Thats why I called at least that part of your changes nonsense. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 22:19, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Im not going to remove this right now, but I do object to the inclusion of Neither country made attempts to establish a Palestinian state between 1948 and 1967. Thats a personal commentary that I dont see as meriting a place in the first paragraph of the article. Its as if youre saying well the Egyptians and the Jordanians had 20 years to do this and they never did. That isnt a just the facts please detail that belongs in the lead of the article. And besides, its an over-simplification. Egypt formed the All-Palestine Government to administer the territory, and their view was that a Palestinian state should exist but it couldnt viably do do when split between just Gaza and the West Bank. Egypt also set up a legislative council for Gaza. But besides that, the line is commentary, and on that basis I think it should be removed. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 21:05, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I think it is relevant, and not personal. This whole page is an oversimplification of very complex situation that goes back at over 30 years before the 1948 UN Partition Plan (ignoring any we were here first, no we were type arguments). Jordan annexed the West Bank and gave the Palestinians citizenship . The government that Egypt set up had no power - it is even briefly discussed in the body of the article . Both of those actions show that there were no real attempts to make a Palestinian State. The lead, if this fact is omitted, ignores a 20 year period when Israel had no control over the Palestinian Territories, which is not insignificant. I am not opposed to a re-wording of the statement, but something must said for that 20 year period when there was no establishment of a Palestinian State. Goalie1998 (talk) 22:26, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * What proposal for a Palestinian state occurred in that time period? <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 23:47, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * That is an interesting point. I believe in pertinent positives as well as pertinent negatives. It could be reworded to say something along the lines of from the time period between 1948 and 1967 all proposals for a Palestinian state ceased. Goalie1998 (talk) 23:55, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Are there reliable sources that discuss the lack of "real attempts" to create a Palestinian state? Because we generally write about things that have happened, not about things that didn't happen, unless their absence is notable. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 02:10, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * But that isnt true. Egypts position at the time was that all of Palestine is the rightful Palestinian state, and they would prepare for war to make that happen. Now obviously thats not how things turned out, but to say that they were not interested in creating a Palestinian state is incorrect. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 05:05, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * If you look at the sources provided, it shows that they didn't. If one country (Jordan) annexes the land that is supposed to be the state, and the other (Egypt) sets up a dummy government with no power, only to dissolve it, I think that is pretty obvious that there was no intention to form a new state, but to incorporate the land into their own countries. Palestinians in the West Bank were given full Jordanian citizenship (including seats in the Jordanian government). The source above even says that annexing the West Bank was part of the Jordanian expansion plan. This is a notable lack of action. We have a section in the article about Palestine under Arab rule which echos exactly what I have been saying, why should it not be mentioned in the lead? Goalie1998 (talk) 09:15, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * But no, it isnt a "notable lack of action" unless there are reliable sources discussing said "lack of action" in the context of the subject of this article. This is why I say this is personal commentary, it is your own view on the topic, it is not coming from any source discussing this subject. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 16:18, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Do you have any sources showing that there were attempts made? "In some circumstances it can be safely assumed that if a certain event had occurred, evidence of it could be discovered by qualified investigators. In such circumstances it is perfectly reasonable to take the absence of proof of its occurrence as positive proof of its non-occurrence."


 * It would be much harder to find sources that directly say that nothing happened than for you to find a source that shows what efforts were made to establish a state in that time period. Anything that says that either Egypt or Jordan made attempts to communicate with each other to set up a Palestinian state? Any diplomatic communications to the rest of the world implying that their interests were to establish the state? All evidence I found has shown that they both were only interested in their self-wants - Jordan more obviously so than Egypt. Goalie1998 (talk) 16:47, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I dont need to find sources that show attempts to be made. Im not the one trying to put something in to an encyclopedia article. WP:BURDEN is fairly clear on this point. The sentence you put has been challenged on the basis that no reliable sources discuss such a lack of an attempt to create a Palestinian state while Gaza and the West Bank were under Egyptian and Jordanian occuption respectively to the topic of this article. Absent such a source the sentence needs to be removed. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 19:47, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I reject the fact that the burden is on me to prove a non-existence, but since it is impossible, I removed the sentence, and added sources to the previous. As a thought experiment, I would like you to objectively think about 1948-1967 and tell me why no state was formed. We can have that discussion on my talk page if you would like - it might be a little challenging for you. Goalie1998 (talk) 21:04, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I dont think it would be difficult, but I doubt Im going to do so. Unrelated, I dont think the http://www.shehadehlaw.com/businessLaw.htm source should be used. I dont necessarily dispute anything in it, cant say I actually went through it, but we can do better with sourcing than a law firm's website no matter how highly regarded they or their clients are. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 21:23, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't mind removing the source, there is another one that says basically the same. I thought it would be more viable as it was written by a Palestinian Arab. How about you find me a source showing that there were attempts made. I won't add the sentence back in either way, but I think it will be educational for you to do the search. I haven't been able to find any references to that time period at all. Goalie1998 (talk) 21:37, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * With all due respect, no I dont think Im going to do that. I dont see the point, and Im not trying to add anything to the article. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 21:51, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * No worries, I wasn't making the suggestion for the scope of this article, just as a learning experience for you. Education for the sake of education isn't for everyone I guess. Goalie1998 (talk) 21:57, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Again, with all due respect, you might want to reconsider the apparent condescending tone of your last couple of messages. You dont know how much or how little Ive read on this topic or how much education I could use or how difficult it would be for me. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 00:08, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * If you have done so much reading on the topic, please enlighten me. That is with all seriousness, I am very interested in learning what happened in those 20 years, and haven't been able to find anything on it. So if you have some knowledge you are willing to share, please do. Goalie1998 (talk) 04:41, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I didnt say I had done so much reading, I just said you might reconsider the tone. But, and I dont really find this relevant to this topic, to answer your question, the focus in that period was not establishing a Palestine on the area the Arabs still controlled, the focus was on recapturing all of Palestine. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 06:26, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * But not to recapture all of Palestine to set up an independent Palestinian state, but to set up Greater Syria headed by King Abdullah I. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goalie1998 (talk • contribs) 08:27, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Jordan never really had the lead among the Arabs or the Palestinians, they fell to Egypt almost by default. Abdullah's plans were no more than his own plans, not the Arabs. Whether or not Nasser would have established a Palestinian state separate from a pan-Arab one I couldnt tell you. But back to the point, this doesnt have anything to do with this article. I dont plan on having a general discussion about this topic on wikipedia. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 08:32, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

For this sentence: "The international community considers those territories to continue to be occupied by Israel today, however Israel considers its occupation of the Gaza Strip to have ceased when it unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in 2005." Would it be appropriate to also mention that Israel views the West Bank as "disputed territories?" It could be a vital point in why the Palestinian state is yet to be. So something along the lines of "The international community considers those territories to continue to be occupied by Israel today, however Israel considers its occupation of the Gaza Strip to have ceased when it unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in 2005 and views the West Bank as disputed territories." I can see this might be a controversial change, which is why I am bringing it up here first. Goalie1998 (talk) 13:58, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * No, as that isnt exactly correct and meaningless anyway. And also, if you look at any number of Israeli Supreme Court cases youll see that even they say flat out that the West Bank is held under occupation. "Public diplomacy" aside, there is nearly no dispute over the status of the West Bank, while there is for Gaza. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 17:32, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * It does need source, otherwise it should be removed. Goalie1998 (talk) 17:49, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Palestinian Territories?
The term "Palestinian Territories" is not a neutral term and implies taking sides in the conflict. The territories should be referred to as the Gaza Strip and West Bank. The territories are disputed territories, with both sides in the conflict claiming their rights. By using the term "Palestinian Territories" you are stating that they belong to one side and therefore their is no dispute in ownership.

Mandate for Palestine

Also, an often forgotten piece of history was the fact that the original Mandate for Palestine included modern day Jordan (Trans-Jordan). The Mandate for Palestine was to create a Jewish and Arab state in Mandate Palestine. The Mandate for Palestine was 120,466 Sq.Km in size. Transjordan was created as an arab state and constituted 92,300 Sq.Km  which was 77% of Palestine. The remaining 23% was set aside for the Jewish State ( what today we call Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip). It is the remaining 23% which was set aside for a Jewish State that we are now discussing breaking up to create another arab state.

Gazmie (talk) 13:32, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Palestinian Territories is the most accepted vernacular on wikipedia right now. Your objection to the Mandate of Palestine doesn't really have any bearing on this article, because the UN Partition Plan was basically an update to the Mandate for Palestine. We could change the references of the British Mandate for Palestine to Mandatory Palestine - which is usually used to refer to Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. I actually think that change should be made, as the British Mandate for Palestine includes areas of Jordan, and Mandatory Palestine only includes Israel and the Territories. But I will wait for more editor input. Goalie1998 (talk) 14:02, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

@ Goalie1998

"Palestinian Territories is the most accepted vernacular on wikipedia right now". The fact that it is most accepted does not mean it is the most accurate. The main reason it has become so accepted is because it is used so often. Wikipedia is about supplying the most accurate information, not necessarily the most popular.

If the territory is still disputed then it is incorrect to call them "Palestinian". Otherwise, the article must also call them Judea and Samaria to create a balance. Gazmie (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 14:16, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree with you to an extent, however I don't think you will get a consensus to make that change. Additionally, Judea and Samaria has been discussed before, and has been quite controversial, so I would steer clear of using that. Unfortunately being a community driven enterprise, what you view as most accurate is not always what will be published. That is why the academic community doesn't accept wikipedia as a reliable source in itself. Goalie1998 (talk) 14:35, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Whoa whoa whoa. Palestinian territories is not neutral? But calling it Judea and Samaria is? Wow. The common name for the territory under discussion is the Palestinian territories, often appended with the word occupied. As far as this nonsense about Transjordan, see Transjordan memorandum. And further, the idea that all of Palestine was set aside for a Jewish state is both laughably untrue and rather bizarre to see written in a post about accuracy. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 16:16, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

@nableezy

Please read carefully what I said! Don't just scan over the words quickly.

I stated that using the term "Palestinian Territories" is not neutral because, whether it is your intention or not, you are taking sides in the conflict.

By calling it "Palestinian" territories you are stating that the territories are not disputed and definitely belong to one side (the "Palestinians"). Clearly, both sides in the conflict, the Jews and the Arabs believe they have a right to these territories, whether it be historic, biblical, security etc.

In fact, I stated that the term that should be used is West Bank and the Gaza Strip. However, if you insist on calling them "Palestinian" territories then for the sake of balance you have to also refer to them by the Jewish/Israeli term.

You may find it "laughable" regarding the comments on the original Mandate for Palestine. However, it is a fact that the original mandate included modern day Jordan (Trans-Jordan). The Mandate for Palestine was to create a Jewish and Arab state in Mandate Palestine. Again, if you would actually read what I said properly you will note that I stated that the Mandate was to create a Jewish and Arab State.
 * Do not lose your temper - unsubstantial jabberings like "laughable" are just meant to get you do the same and than threaten you with an auto-warning tag on your Talk Page, to make you nervous or to make you look bad. As experienced editors as they are, their repeated violation of WP:CIVIL started giving Nableezy and MShabazz the count themselves. --Miraclexix (talk) 21:10, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Transjordan was created as an arab state and constituted 92,300 Sq.Km  which was 77% of Palestine. The remaining 23% was set aside for the Jewish State ( what today we call Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip). It is the remaining 23% which was set aside for a Jewish State that we are now discussing breaking up to create another arab state.

Gazmie (talk) 10:31, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Gazmie (talk)

--Miraclexix (talk) 11:42, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree with Gazmie on that topic here, and find Goalies standpoint reasonable & particular his approach good. We could get a reasonable consensus, without leaving out legitime and factual accurate statements and/or vernaculars.
 * I disagree with everything Nableezy has pointed out. It is not helpful in my eyes.
 * Palestinian territories is not neutral? the question was if it was _accurate_ in regard to this article. Off cause does the pronomen Palestinian define the distributed territories as already belonging to the palestinian people: question is why did they reject their own land 1947, then, when Israelis/Jews did rightfully owned land and the international community did had a consensus to share mandatory territories between predominatly Jewish and predominatly Arabic sides? The Palestinian Arab people could have had more land, then what is under dispute to this day, all without terrorising the world and launching war after war together with their Arab neighbors. For example did Nazi Germany also felt the need to terrorise the world and wage war, but it lost the World War II and had to give land as a compensation for that. Today, Germans no longer see parts of Poland and Ukrain and Belorus as German territories! In other words, times are a changin and wars are just evil!
 * calling it Judea and Samaria is? - the question was if the one-sidedness of Palestinian territories must appear in the lead over the article on disputed territories, to create a balance Samaria and Judea also appear. 'Judea' and 'Samaria' are terms in their own right as is 'West bank' there is no reason not to mention either of them, if it was the most accurate and helpful approach in some textual context.
 * Transjordan memorandum : accoring to international law Trans- and Cis-Jordan (cis meaning 'on this side', trans meaning 'over the other side' technically remained one mandate, the split off of Jordan as a gift to the hashemites was against int. law. The British did use the tactic of divide et impera (divide and rule) to get oil-rights. The minority of shia Hashemite was against a majority of sunni (palestine) Arabs - so that they would fight against each other in their land and the West could sell them weappons against cheap oil. Now both British and Arabs (both shia and sunni) point their bloody fingers to Israel, because otherwise they would look bad.

There is some misunderstanding about the rules around here. Neutral point of view does not mean giving equal weight to opposing views. As the policy says, "Ensure that the reporting of different views on a subject adequately reflects the relative levels of support for those views, and that it does not give a false impression of parity" (my emphasis). That is why we give the overwhelming view of the international community greater weight than the Israel fringe view. Besides that, the "history" presented here by Miraclexix is just the fairy-tale version of the Israeli right and doesn't belong here at all. Zerotalk 12:12, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your input. I agree, but you may misunderstand. The issue in regard to Neutral point of view here was, that specific statements can not be blocked from entering the lead just because the greater weight is on the one side. I agree, there must not always be the counter point mentioned, but can be mentioned if appropriate and in accordance with WP:LEAD. Additionally: statements were detected as biased, because they may represent the felt view of a "int. community" but are not sourced in the lead, nor appear anywhere in the article's body. The autor who made these statements in the lead said on the article's TP, that he was aware of the problem, and that they (the statements in question) would refer to material that he was willing to put into the article to some point in the future. da capo ! --Miraclexix (talk) 13:04, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * ""history" presented here by Miraclexix is just the fairy-tale version of the Israeli right" - but it is the opinion held by some people and some scholars, too. I am aware that these are *spicy* musings ;) --Miraclexix (talk) 13:07, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

This is nonsense. Palestinian territories is the common name for the territories occupied by Israel in Mandatory Palestine. The idea that we are taking sides is asinine. Or no less asinine than saying we cannot call it Israel, we must call it the Zionist entity, otherwise we are taking sides on whether or not that rightfully is Israeli territory. We will not use Judea and Samaria for the West Bank. That is a settled issue, and if people insist on inserting it I will ask that they be banned from editing this topic as they clearly have no interest in following the rules of editing in this topic area. Nearly everything written by Gazmie and Miraclexix is just plain wrong. No, the entire mandate was not for the creation of Arab and Jewish states, Transjordan was never a part of that. No, calling the Palestinian territories the Palestinian territories is not "taking sides", it is using the common name for a territory. No, calling it Judea and Samaria is explicitly disallowed by WP:WESTBANK. No, the Hashemites are not shia (lol), and no Jordan has nothing to do with this. Miraclexix, I will add the material to the body today. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 17:29, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * O.k. I like that. But it is too late. You violated, as I pointed out to you WP:LEAD! While I like good contributions to articles, and like to encourage editor to contribute, please take into account, that you are in a heated debate already, and if you make the additions controvers and without balanced sources, they will be reverted and you will be called upon to achieve consensus on this talkpage first! You already did the rewrite of the lead, which is far from aceptable, without any consensus on this talkpage, while MShabazz selectively and uncivil reverted to this state of attrition. Further, your additions, still may be not enough reason to have the pre-lauched biased parts in the lead, because you seem to add them simply because of your agenda, to get your opinion in the lead. --Miraclexix (talk) 21:02, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I have not added any opinion, or "biased parts", to the lead. And the material is now in the body. I added high quality sources to the body. Your additions, or changes, have all been poorly written, factually inaccurate, and not abiding by NPOV. This is getting more than tiresome and starting to become disruptive. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 21:13, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Judea and Samaria (+/-Area)
This is well covered by WP:WESTBANK, you cannot use the term Judea and Samaria in Wikipedia's voice to refer to the West Bank. And before people start saying the tired line but these are historical terms, no, Judea is a historical term, Samaria is a historical term, the combination of the two as in Judea and Samaria to refer to the West Bank is however not, it is settler speak, used to claim title to the West Bank. Adding Area to it doesnt fly either, as the guideline says that is to be used when referring to the administrative area in the context of that administration and not merely referring to a specific land area. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 02:41, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I was giving Miraclexix benefit of the doubt that Judea and Samaria Area was used in the source he was citing but didn't transfer correctly. The changes were reverted before I had the chance to ask for a source update. If you read the sentence that he wrote, he is talking about the Israeli administration of the administrative area. Therefore, the usage was well within the guidelines. Goalie1998 (talk) 04:36, 7 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I disagree with the generalized oppinion of Nableezy. --Miraclexix (talk) 12:07, 7 July 2015 (UTC)


 * But then it isnt accurate. Here is an explanation of what rights Israel has as occupying power, but its over the territory held under occupation. Which isnt the Judea and Samaria Area, its the West Bank and East Jerusalem. And those two things are not equivalent, and the diistrict name that Israel uses for it irrelevant. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 06:13, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I disagree, because the statement "you cannot use the term Judea and Samaria in Wikipedia's voice to refer to the West Bank" is simply false.
 * WP:WESTBANK says: "2. In the context of events during the British Mandate (1920–1948), terms used by the British administration (i.e. "Judea" and "Samaria") are probably most appropriate."
 * WP:WESTBANK says: "5. Judea and Samaria Area (with the last word capitalised as here) may be used" in notion of article 6. "inside verbatim quotations from sources (..)" etc.
 * The statement "But then it isnt accurate. Here is an explanation of what rights Israel has as occupying power" is not quite right. The source given refers to "Public and Private Property in Occupied Territory" not to Israel in specific. Since the Oslo accords Israel gave de facto power to the PA, so the question is if Israel really de jure was an "occupying power" and if the source therefore really applies, besides beeing a general perception or not. Anyway this oppinion needs source, otherwise it might be original research, violating NPOV.
 * In the context of the Israeli administration of the administrative area "Judea and Samaria", it remains relevant, in the context of mandatory palestine it can be used, even if Nableezy disagrees. --Miraclexix (talk) 12:07, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * You seem to misunderstand those two clauses. For 2, we arent talking about the British district anywhere in the article, and for 5 there are no quotes. As far as the ICRC quote, that explains what rights you seem intent on including in the lead. And its not an opinion. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 17:20, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

50% of the territory allotted to the proposed arab state

 * The statement "50% of the territory" needs sources. Also it has the issue, that it only appears in the lead.
 * "allotted to the proposed arab state" - this was the original version of Nableezy's re-write, and can therefor stand (because even Nableezy would not disagree). It is more accurate that "Palestinian", see the discussion, and seems to have a majority support so far. --Miraclexix (talk) 12:11, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * You seem to be under the impression that we cant use the word Palestinian for the Palestinians. You are wrong. Im sorry to break it to you, but that word is commonly used for Palestinian Arabs. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 17:21, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * No, I see your point, everyone has the right to call themselves as they like! Why I opposed, I layed down and must not be repeated here. -- I do not have anything against the use of the term Palestinian(s) - in the correct context! Actually, I find it funny, that the Arab language has no sound for the hard Greek sound "P"! --Miraclexix (talk) 21:26, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Do you see the banner at the top of this page? The one that says "This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Proposals for a Palestinian state article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject."? Please follow its advice. You've been told repeatedly that this is not a forum. Once again, I recommend you read WP:ARBPIA or you may be blocked from editing for violating it. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 21:33, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your advice, I will read it again and take the guide to heart. Unpleasant comments are given from more than 1 side, even by you, I repeatedly begged you to follow WP:LEAD! Thank you! --Miraclexix (talk) 21:42, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * it is generally considered poor form to change a comment thats already been replied to. But thank you for that comment that you did change. Quite enlightening on the views of ones interlocutor. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 22:12, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * No problem, I do not like to heat the discussion needlessly. Like you, I like to stay constructive! In regard to the comments, they are simply taken from other authors and adapted, too. You do you call all the use of warning templates "poor form" in this way. Think it through. Btw I like this , here. --Miraclexix (talk) 11:31, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

The international community considers those territories to continue to be occupied by Israel today
Issues:
 * The statement "The international community considers " needs sources!
 * The statement "The international community considers those territories to continue to be occupied by Israel today" only appears in this form in the lead, so it violates WP:LEAD. --Miraclexix (talk) 12:31, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Done and done. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 18:04, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, every good work is appreciated. I will check the sources in the next days. --Miraclexix (talk) 11:25, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Controversy & Historical focus in the LEAD after rewrite of user Nableezy

 * The lead does in general rather be in opposition with WP:LEAD
 * The most part of the lead is occupied by controversial stuff resulting out of the controversies regarding the view on the History, due to the re-write attempt done by Nableezy ( 00:52, 5 July 2015 "rewrite lead" ). Subsequently, the rewrite attempt of Nableezy became rather controversial, with follow up harsh reverts all to often. We do not have consensus on major parts of it, so the lead prior to the rewrite could suffice (with additions or alterations).
 * The topic of the article is not sufficiently reflected in the lead. Key points like Peace process and two-state-solution, Oslo accords are not mentioned.


 * In conclusion: It seems reasonable to me, to opt for a revert to the status ante and starting a process of getting consensus prior to a rewrite and putting in part after part, again. --Miraclexix (talk) 12:31, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

The sister article Proposals for a Jewish state has a rather short lead section: "There were several proposals for a Jewish state in the course of Jewish history between the destruction of ancient Israel and the founding of the modern State of Israel. While some of those have come into existence, others were never implemented. The Jewish national homeland usually refers to the State of Israel or the Land of Israel, depending on political and religious beliefs. Jews and their supporters, as well as their detractors and anti-Semites have put forth plans for Jewish states." -- Thats all!
 * I'd say we should have a rather short, less controversy prone lead here also. --Miraclexix (talk) 14:22, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * We must be reading a different article. Oslo is explicitly mentioned, the two state solution is featured prominently, though not using those words. As far as a rather short lead, what another article has isnt really relevant. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 18:06, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I did refer to the relative proportionality, you seem to miss my point by 100% --Miraclexix (talk) 11:24, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

As a result of the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel captured the rest of Mandatory Palestine from Egypt and Jordan ???
This statement at the beginning of the second paragraph is incorrect.

Israel did not capture the rest of "Mandatory Palestine".

The original Mandate included what is today known as Jordan.

Gazmie (talk) 13:50, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * In the article Transjordan it says: "The territory was officially under the British Mandate for Palestine, but it had a fully autonomous governing system from Mandatory Palestine." - the use of the term "Mandatory Palestine" in Wikipedia is ambiguous. That Jordan and Palestine together were the British Palestine Mandate, and were proposed -according to international law -as the "Jewish homeland" is confused throughout many Wikipedia articles, sadly. --Miraclexix (talk) 14:19, 7 July 2015 (UTC)


 * It is you who are confused. The legal document known as the Mandate for Palestine and the region called Palestine throughout the mandate period are different things.  There is no disagreement between primary sources, nor among historians except for a few on the radical political fringe, about what Mandatory Palestine was. And the idea that Transjordan was ever for one second proposed as part of a Jewish homeland is simply nonsense.  It never happened.  You need to read better sources. Zerotalk 15:04, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Maybe, but the use of "Palestine" is not resticted -throughout this period- to only Cis-Jordan. Palestine also refers to Cis-Jordan plus (total or parts of) Trans-Jordan. You maybe select your source to your liking and simply neglect others, to feed your bias. Zero, to clarify the matters of fact for you, you may look up the meaning of the term "Mandate" and its ethymology. It is not just the title of a paper. --Miraclexix (talk) 20:40, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

@ Zero

The point that you are missing is that the arabs were given 77% of Mandate Palestine. The Jews were left with 23%. It is the remaining 23% that the world is trying to break up to create another arab state. It is not the fault of the Jews that the British gave 77 % of Palestine to the Hashemite minority.

Gazmie (talk)
 * No, all wrong. Like every single word wrong. And completely irrelevant. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 17:35, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * And take into account, that 2/3 of that tiny 23% Israel is just (negev, southern) dersert! It is my understanding, that if a democatic Israel can have 20% Arabs (that like to call themselve after the ancestral greekish philistines/plishtim), the future democratic Arab-Palestinian "State of Palestine" can have 20% Jews as well, today there are less than 20% Jewish residents of the Judean and Samaritan hills. Maybek, the adjective "democratic" is but an oxymoron in this context? --Miraclexix (talk) 20:40, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * WP:NOTFORUM. You all want to discuss this topic kindly do it elsewhere. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 21:10, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

@ Nableezy

"No, all wrong. Like every single word wrong" you say.

I understand how difficult it is for you to accept this historic fact because it goes against everything you have been told and conflicts with your whole belief system.

However, simply saying "wrong, all wrong" without disproving the fact that Mandate Palestine included modern day Jordan and therefore the arabs received 77 % of Palestine, you are simply acting emotionally and defensive and not responding with your intellect.

Gazmie (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 10:56, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Palestinian Identity?
" The existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new tool to continue the fight against Israel and for Arab unity".

Before anyone rushes to attribute the above statement to a "right wing Israeli", please note that it was said by Zuheir Mohsen a Palestinian leader of the PLO.

Gazmie (talk) 14:15, 7 July 2015 (UTC) Gazmie (talk
 * Gazmie, do you know of the source of an Egypt newspaper of 1993, in that the PLO leader said in Arabic that all of the Oslo accords were just a show / tactics of war? (In english papers the PLO leader spoke of peace and two-states ...), but the egypt source (I once had the english translation of it): do you know where to find it again? --Miraclexix (talk) 14:31, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

You two, talk pages are not forums. Material like this is not allowed. Zerotalk 14:57, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

@ Zero0000

I think that any article that is entitled "Proposals for a Palestinian state" should include comments from "Palestinian" leaders who actually rejected the concept of a distinct separate "Palestinian people". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gazmie (talk • contribs) 15:44, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * What does that have to do with anything? <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 17:34, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * While Zero for sure is entitled to have his say, it simply is a proposal, related to the article, that could come into the article, if Gazmie could give the source. --Miraclexix (talk) 20:28, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Not if it is wholly irrelevant to the topic. Kindly do not abuse the purpose of Wikipedia talk pages. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 21:10, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * It fits the historical background perfectly! --Miraclexix (talk) 21:48, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Make a proposed edit, here on the talk page, that you would like to use incorporating that quote. Take this away from the forum feel it has, and make it relevant to the article. Goalie1998 (talk) 21:51, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * You might want to check the source first? --Miraclexix (talk) 11:23, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Proposed Edit

The article should include the historical fact that many arabs and PLO leaders rejected the identity of being called "Palestinian". It must be remembered that the term Palestine is not a an Arabic term. The Romans changed the name of Israel to Palaestina, in order to remove the jewish link to the land after exiling the jews.

The Arabic language does not even have a letter P. In fact, initially the Arabs could not even correctly pronounce the word Palestine in their native tongue, referring to area rather as “Filastin.”

The article is called "Proposals" for a Palestinian State. A Proposal is when something is put forward in order for a decision to be made.

It is important, therefore, to provide some detail on those PLO leaders who rejected the concept that there is a distinct Palestinian People and who stated that is was simply a tool to continue the fight against Israel.

Gazmie (talk)


 * "The Arabic language does not even have a letter P." Are you for real?  Seriously, this is so pathetic. Look, I can do that too: Hebrew has no letter J, therefore the Israeli claim to Jerusalem is obviously phoney. It's ridiculous. I don't think you should be editing, as your knowledge of the subject seems to be at Zionist coloring book level. Zerotalk 12:35, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * There does seem to be an influx of users at that level recently. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 18:59, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

@ Zero0000

The point I was making was the fact that many arabs try to give the impression to the world that Palestine is an arabic term. I was trying to highlight the fact that it is not arabic and has been adopted by Arabs only for the political purposes, even though they traditionally struggle to pronounce it, and even though the term was never used throughout Islamic history, prior to the re-establishment of Israel.

The difference between your example of Jerusalem is that Israelis will use the Hebrew term Yerushalayim. The term Yerushalayim has been used by the jews for thousands of years.

Your comments about my knowledge being from a "Zionist coloring book level" are very revealing about your true views and question how neutral you really are!!

Anybody putting forward comments that you disagree with seem to branded "Zionists"

Rather than ridicule, Zero, why don't you answer the following questions, and don't cop-out by stating they are not worth your response. If you do not have the answer be honest!!


 * Please refute the historic fact that the arabs received 77% of Mandate Palestine.


 * Please provide historical prove, prior to the re-establishment of Israel in 1948, that the the term Palestine was used by the arabs or mentioned in Islamic literature.

Gazmie (talk) 12:15, 9 July 2015 (UTC)


 * (I feel like I'm transported back to the Usenet of the late 80s.) The earliest known versions of the name Jerusalem did not start with either J or Y. The analogy with Palestine/Filastin is perfectly valid and the use of name variations between languages to prove anything is perfectly ridiculous in both cases. The first of your silly challenges has been answered multiple times on this page (and incidentally I hear that the Jordanian government is interested in a swap; hahaha).  The second of your silly challenges is answered multiple times on the page Timeline of the name "Palestine".  I'll quote just one Israeli scholar on the great Arab historian Mujir al-Din ‎(1456–1522):  "Among other things Mujir al-Din’s book is notable for its extensive use of the term 'Palestine.' The simple fact is that Mujir al-Din calls the country he lives in Palestine (Filastin), a term he repeats 22 times." Zerotalk 13:24, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Long sentences
In regard of the KISS principle and readability for non-native English readers, handicapped, and young people, I suggest to have shorter sentences with clear structure and less nested statements. --Miraclexix (talk) 15:01, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * And I think that is foolish. This is an encyclopedia article. Not a coloring book. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 17:33, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * It is a goal in itself! Because this principle widens the possible audience. It is not meant as a critique about your qualities as an editor/author! --Miraclexix (talk) 20:31, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I reject the goal. We are not writing a childrens story. Theres another Wikipedia for that simple wikipedia. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 21:11, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * There is nothing wrong with simplifying the structural elements of the article while keeping the content. Increasing readability is essential for understanding this complex subject. There is a difference between clarity and simplicity, and the simplicity used for simple wikipedia. Goalie1998 (talk) 21:54, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Theres nothing wrong with it now. It is perfectly readable for anybody with a higher than say 8th grade understanding of English. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 22:11, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Which is why no changes have been made. Goalie1998 (talk) 22:21, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Your pejorative speech, Nableezy, misses my point entirely, therefor I see it as a bad habit and a personal vulgarity of yours. Accessibility and readability is a high held goal in itself, I still stand up to that. You may simply do not have the life experience to understand my point, I sorrow that lack of yours. --Miraclexix (talk) 11:19, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * WP:COMPETENCE seems to be lacking here. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 18:57, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

last edit
There are some glaring factual errors in the latest edit, which removed most of the lead. First off, it isnt true that all Arab and Palestinian leaders rejected the partition plan, next it isnt just Palestinian and Arab leaders who have indicated support for various proposals since, and last consensus of who? <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 23:59, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I support the idea of the new lead - a quick summary of the rest of the article - but it probably should have been discussed first. It definitely needs a lot of work. I don't think, though, that the lead needs the amount of detail it had in the version before this one. Goalie1998 (talk) 09:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Ive corrected some of the issues that I saw, and fleshed out some of the material in the body of the article. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 18:56, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, nableezy. I think your version is a big improvement over the "maly-ndate" version cobbled together without discussion by editors canvassed by Miraclexix. — MShabazz Talk/Stalk 20:03, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I support the last edits, because they are to remedy the controversy for a long time. Nableezy, since your hole re-write (see, []) did only lead to further enhanced controversy, and heated accusations and WP:GAMING, and was in its entirety made on grounds of no consensus at all in the first place, why do you need to ask :"last consensus of who?", now? double standards? --Miraclexix (talk) 11:14, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * You clearly dont understand what I write, so Im not going to respond to a post that has absolutely nothing to do with anything that I wrote. Finally, stop selecting users to ask them for help in this article. It is WP:CANVASSING, and you can try to act like it isnt but it is, because you are selecting specific users, not posting on a wikiproject or something of that nature. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 18:56, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Your latest changes of the day have been repeatedly highly controverse, w/o consensus or rejected ; we've gone beyond edit-warring and are now entering WP:IDHT territory. Seek consensus on this TP first, please. --Miraclexix (talk) 19:12, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Exactly what about the changes I made do you dispute? And if you didnt notice, the edit you reverted to didnt have any consensus here. Specifically and using sources, what exactly do you dispute in the edits you reverted. Im sick of this arguing with somebody who either cannot or will not understand basic English. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 19:15, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, and you returned some pretty basic typos in your revert. Not that I expect you to pay attention or anything. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 19:18, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

List of changes reverted

Which of these changes do you dispute and why? Here's why each of those changes were made:
 * 1) In the lead"Since then a number of Palestinian and Arab leaders have indicated support for various proposals for a Palestinian state on either a portion of or the entirety of the Palestinian territories—the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Though various other sources have made their own proposals for a Palestinian state, the current consensus is to let the parties directly involved in the Israel-Palestinian conflict negotiate the final settlement of the conflict on the basis of a two-state solution."changed to "Since then there have been proposals to establish a Palestinian state on the basis of a two-state solution on either a portion of or the entirety of the Palestinian territories—the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which have been occupied by Israel since 1967."
 * 2) Added Prior to the expiration of the British Mandate, civil war broke out between the Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine. at the end of mandate section and changed section title from Arab plans for Palestine to Post British Mandate
 * 3) Section on History"The Israeli Declaration of Independence was followed by the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and a consequent displacement of the Arab population, many of whom left or were forced from their homes for a number of reasons, personal, tactical and political. Many wealthy merchants and leading urban notables from Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem fled to Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan, while the middle class tended to move to all-Arab towns such as Nābulus and Nazareth. The majority of lower class workers ended up in refugee camps. More than 400 Arab villages disappeared because of population shifts, and Arab life in the coastal cities virtually disintegrated. The center of Palestinian life shifted to the Arab towns of the hilly eastern portion of the region—which was immediately west of the Jordan River and came to be called the West Bank."changed to"more than 700,000]] Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes. Around 400 Arab towns and villages were depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus with a number of places entirely destroyed and left uninhabitable. |undefined"
 * 4) Arab rule section"As a consequence of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Palestinian territories were occupied by Egypt by Jordan between 1948 and 1967. At war's end in 1949, Jordan had control of the West Bank of the Jordan River, including East Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Egypt took control of the narrow Gaza Strip, while Israel controlled the rest of the Mandatory Palestine."changed to"As a consequence of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank were occupied by Egypt by Jordan respectively between 1948 and 1967. Israel controlled the rest of the Mandatory Palestine."
 * 5) Arab rule section"King Abdullah I of Jordan decided to grant citizenship to the Arab refugees and residents"changed to"King Abdullah I of Jordan granted citizenship to the Arab refugees and residents"and"In Gaza, a government calling itself the All-Palestine Government formed, even before the war's end in September 1948. The government, under the leadership of the Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, declared the independence of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. The All-Palestine Government would go on to be recognized by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, while Jordan and the other Arab states refused to recognize it. In practice, the All-Palestine government was only a publicity stunt, as it was given no real authority by the Egyptian government. In 1959, Egypt's new leader Gamal Abdul Nasser ordered the dismantling of the All-Palestine Government, yet notably refused to grant Palestinians in Gaza Egyptian citizenship."changed to"In Gaza, the All-Palestine Government was formed prior to the war's end in September 1948. The government, under the leadership of the Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, declared the independence of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. The All-Palestine Government would go on to be recognized by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, while Jordan and the other Arab states refused to recognize it. The All-Palestine Government had very limited power however, as Egypt maintained control over Gaza's administration. In 1959, Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser ordered the dismantling of the All-Palestine Government."Also removed opening of Palestinian declaration about Nullifying Israel's right to exist.
 * 1) Whether or not a number of Arab or Palestinians have supported something isnt really the point, and a number of others have called for drastically different solutions. Also, the current status of the territory needs to be included, otherwise theres a gaping hole in to why such proposals even exist in the first place. "Current consensus" is vague to the point of being misleading, current consensus among who?
 * 2) The war didnt just start when the Arab armies entered Palestine, it had been ongoing for a year and change before that. That should be included.
 * 3) The information on the Palestinian exodus is so wrong that I question how anybody can pretend its a faithful representation of history. They left for tactical, personal and political reasons? So being forcibly removed and having the village of your forefathers razed to the ground had nothing to do with it? The material changed is straight from top quality sources and does away with the asinine idea that the Palestinians just left of their own accord for their own reasons. And the line on villages disappearing because of population shifts is horseshit. No, they were mostly forcibly depopulated of their residents and then destroyed to prevent anybody from coming back to them.
 * 4) Calling them the Palestinian territories between 48 and 67 is an anachronism. The change is more accurate and to the point.
 * 5) Better English in the first sentence, then a tighter and less fluffy into to the All-Palestine government. About the line on Nullifying Israel's right to exist, that assumes that Israel has such a right, and it has Wikipedia endorsing it. That is a NPOV issue. Denying an Israeli "right to exist" might work, but nullifying does not. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 19:37, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

I came into this discussion only recently, and have not had a chance to absorb the issues raised in the discussion on the talk page. My immediate impression, though, is that there is an excessive concentration on the Middle East conflict, which detracts from the main point of the article, which is the presentation of all the "Proposals for a Palestinian state". For example, why revisit on numbers of refugee? Why dwell on occupation? Etc. These are all historic issues which are better dealt with in their own articles. Here they bury the true references to "proposals". Enthusiast (talk) 20:30, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Well where the article discusses the refugees it should do accurately, not just wave a hand and say oh some people picked up and left, and the reasons they did so were mostly their own. Regarding occupation, I dont think its being dwelled upon, but it is an important topic, as in what is the current status of the place they are proposing to make a Palestinian state. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 20:59, 8 July 2015 (UTC)


 * The point I am making is that I do not seek to downplay the significance of all these events, but only those aspects that impact on the "proposals" question should be mentioned in this article. And, with respect to those personally effected, the numbers and their circumstances should not be repeated here. Enthusiast (talk) 22:30, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I understand your point, and I dont fully disagree (I mean I dont think it needs to be overly emphasized here, but it should be covered). But my point was that the circumstances were already included, but they were done so in a misleading way. Im not saying it was your edits that caused it, I didnt actually check where that material came from, but regardless the material that was already in the article was misleading. But to the point on the impact on the proposals, the right of return for refugees is a major sticking point in nearly every proposal from at least Oslo onwards. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 23:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Misleading lead
The current lead is misleading in focusing on the rejection of the UNO Partition Plan Vote. There were many plans that were proposed at the time and not all rejected by Arabs (Peel Plans, Woodhead Comittee Plan, a proposal of the Jewish Agency in 1946, a British proposal in 1946, an Arab proposal for a multiconfessionnnal State (like Lebanon), a proposal for a binational State in 1947, 2 UNO Partitions Plan and the Bernadotte Plan).

These Plans should be described and the lead should immediately be changed stating several plans were proposed but both parties never found an agreement and none of them could be implemented.

Pluto2012 (talk) 04:51, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Please do so. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 08:42, 9 July 2015 (UTC)


 * If there is no objection, I will proceed next week. Pluto2012 (talk) 06:21, 10 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Most of those plans were also rejected, but even if they weren't, the UN Partition Plan was the most significant plan raised by the international community to create an Arab and a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine. I don't believe the Woodhead Committee Plan (for example) deserves the same importance in lead than the 1947 UN plan.--Averysoda (talk) 06:34, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
 * They can be mentioned in passing, but probably shouldn't be focused on. Goalie1998 (talk) 18:13, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I have modified the lead accordingly. Pluto2012 (talk) 06:17, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Post British Mandate
I think this section should be removed, with the information reworked into the other sections that already exist. Most of the information is repeated under Under Arab Rule anyway. I can work on it over the next few days. Goalie1998 (talk) 20:48, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 12 September 2015
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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 13:01, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Proposals for a Palestinian state → History of the State of Palestine – Propose move to a name more consistent with other History of [State] articles. In addition, it would be good to merge some of State_of_Palestine and State_of_Palestine into this article, since the vast majority of these overlap entirely with this article. Oncenawhile (talk) 09:37, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Ok Even if it is still a proto-State, I don't think it is an issue to title "History of the State of Palestine" and that in any case it is a better option than "Proposals for a Palestinian State", which sounds strange given the lack of accuracy of the word "proposal". What about the "fight", "lobbying", "negociations", etc. The situation today is not just the results of "Proposals": other aspects are talked about in the article. Pluto2012 (talk) 09:53, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Support per nom. Rob984 (talk) 13:40, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Support: I am though not sure how Two-state solution should be handled. There is a fair bit of overlap there as well. Kingsindian &#9821;&#9818; 14:11, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Khestwol (talk) 16:30, 14 September 2015 (UTC)


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Lead statement
Now it says "This triggered the 1948 Palestine war, which established a Jewish state but no Palestinian state" - which is to the least simplistic and perhaps a deliberately misleading statement. It is completely disregarding the 22 September 1948 announcement on the creation of All-Palestine and formation of the All-Palestine Government in Gaza under Egyptian protectorate, which was recognized by all Arab League members except Hashemite Transjordan. The later inability of the All-Palestine protectorate to effectively govern Gaza Strip and to be admitted into UN (due to Egyptian internal politics) eventually led the Arab League to announce Egypt as a "guardian" of All-Palestine in 1951, stripping much of All-Palestine's status and it was finally dissolved by Nasser in 1959. It was however initially a serious attempt for a Palestinian state.GreyShark (dibra) 11:15, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Mcchon-Hussein correspondence
This section has so many things wrong. First of all, too lengthy (undue). Mostly unsourced. Fails to emphasize the fact that the agreement built on this correspondence didnt last too long and was considered void. Doesn't mention the Transjordan memorandum. And quite honestly barely has anything to do with state of Palestine (West bank and gaza). Makeandtoss (talk) 10:26, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

lead
"In 1969, for example, the PLO proposed the establishment of a binational state over the whole of the former British Mandate territory. This proposal was rejected by Israel, as it would have amounted to the disbanding of the state of Israel." "This proposal was rejected by Israel" lmao, obviously! Why is this in the lead anyway? Doesn't feel to me like an important piece of information considering the change in PLO policies since 1969, aka the Oslo Accords. Makeandtoss (talk) 09:47, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

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