Isratin (, ; , ), also known as the bi-national state (, ), is a proposed unitary, federal or confederate Israeli-Palestinian state encompassing the present territory of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Depending on various points of view, such a scenario is presented as a desirable one-state solution to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, or as a calamity in which Israel would ostensibly lose its character as a Jewish state and the Palestinians would fail to achieve their national independence within a two-state solution. Increasingly, Isratin is being discussed not as an intentional political solutiondesired or undesiredbut as the probable, inevitable outcome of the continuous growth of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the seemingly irrevocable entrenchment of the Israeli occupation there since 1967. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Isratin proposal The Gaddafi Isratin proposal intended to permanently resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through a secular, federalist, republican one-state solution, which was first articulated by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, at the Chatham House in London and later adopted by Muammar Gaddafi himself. Its main points are: Creation of a binational Jewish-Palestinian state called the "Federal Republic of the Holy Land"; Partition of the state into 5 administrative regions, with Jerusalem as a city-state; Return of all Palestinian refugees; Supervision by the United Nations of free and fair elections on the first and second occasions; Removal of weapons of mass destruction from the state; Recognition of the state by the Arab League. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's proposal was eventually incorporated in Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's book released in the year 2000, which served as his official guide to address the Arab–Israeli conflict and how to solve it. Despite the suggestion of "Federal Republic of the Holy Land" as the name of this hypothetical new state, the name Isratin (, ; , ), a portmanteau of the names "Israel" and "Falastin" ("Palestine" in Arabic and Hebrew)variously spelled in English as "Isratine" or "Israteen" and sometimes rendered "Israstine"has been used as a "working title" for the notion of a single state in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with Palestinians and Jewish inhabitants of all three having citizenship and equal rights in the combined entity. Muammar Gaddafi again championed the "Isratin proposal" in an op-ed article for the New York Times as the "only option" for a solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The timing of the