Editing One-state solution (section)

====The Israeli right====
{{Main|Proposed Israeli annexation of the West Bank}}
[[File:Restricted space in the West Bank, Area C.png|thumb|200px|[[Area C (West Bank)|Area C]] of the West Bank, controlled by Israel, in blue and red, December 2011]]
In recent years, some politicians and political commentators representing the right wing of Israeli politics have advocated annexing the [[West Bank]], and granting the West Bank's Palestinian population Israeli citizenship while maintaining Israel's current status as a [[Jewish state]] with [[Arab citizens of Israel|recognized minorities]]. Proposals from the Israeli right for a one-state solution tend to avoid advocating the annexation of the [[Gaza Strip]], due to its large and generally hostile Palestinian population and its status as a self-governing territory without any Israeli settlements or permanent military presence.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Glick |first=Caroline B. |title=The Israeli solution: a one-state plan for peace in the Middle East |date=2014 |publisher=Crown forum |isbn=978-0-385-34806-5 |location=New York |pages=133–135}}</ref> Some Israeli politicians, including former defense minister [[Moshe Arens]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Strenger|first=Carlo|title=Strenger than Fiction / Israel should consider a one-state solution|url=http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/strenger-than-fiction/strenger-than-fiction-israel-should-consider-a-one-state-solution-1.296976|access-date=5 February 2014|newspaper=Haaretz|date=18 June 2010}}</ref> and former President [[Reuven Rivlin]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Ahren |first=Raphael |title=The newly confident Israeli proponents of a one-state solution|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-hebron-conference-proponents-of-the-one-state-solution-show-their-growing-confidence/|access-date=5 February 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of Israel]] |date=16 July 2012}}</ref> and [[Uri Ariel]]<ref>{{cite news |title=New housing minister rejects settlement freeze as 'dreadful' idea |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-housing-minister-rejects-settlement-freeze-as-dreadful-idea/ |newspaper=Times Of Israel |date=17 March 2013 |access-date=19 March 2013}}</ref> have voiced support for a one-state solution, rather than divide the [[West Bank]] in a two-state solution.<ref name=haaretz2010 >{{cite journal|last=Zrahiya |first=Zvi |title=Israel official: Accepting Palestinians into Israel better than two states |journal=TheMarker |year=2010 |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-official-accepting-palestinians-into-israel-better-than-two-states-1.287421 |access-date=12 February 2011}}</ref> 

In 2013, [[Likud]] MK [[Tzipi Hotovely]] argued that Jordan was originally created as the Arab state in the British Mandate of Palestine and that Israel should annex the West Bank as a historic part of the Land of Israel.<ref>{{cite web|last=Harkov |first=Lahav |url=http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Hotovely-laments-Likud-schizophrenia-on-two-states-324563 |title=Hotovely laments Likud 'schizophrenia' on two states |website=The Jerusalem Post |date=2013-08-28 |access-date=2016-04-12}}</ref> [[Naftali Bennett]], Prime Minister of Israel, included in many [[Likud]]-led coalitions, argues for the annexation of Zone C of the [[West Bank]]. Zone C, agreed upon as part of the [[Oslo Accords]], comprises about 60% of West Bank land and is currently under Israeli military control.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bennett |first=Naftali |date=5 November 2014 |title=for Israel Two-State is No Solution |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/opinion/naftali-bennett-for-israel-two-state-is-no-solution.html?_r=0 |url-status=live |access-date=2016-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129073924/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/opinion/naftali-bennett-for-israel-two-state-is-no-solution.html?_r=0 |archive-date=29 January 2021}}</ref>

In the 2014 book ''The Israeli Solution'', ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'' columnist [[Caroline Glick]] challenged the census statistics provided by the [[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]] (PCBS) and argued that the bureau had vastly over-inflated the Palestinian population of the West Bank by 1.34 million and that PCBS statistics and predictions are unreliable. According to a [[Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies]] (BESA) study,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/MSPS65.pdf |title=The Million Person Gap: The Arab Population in the West Bank and Gaza |access-date=23 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172640/http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/MSPS65.pdf |archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref> the 2004 Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza stood at 2.5 million and not the 3.8 million claimed by the Palestinians. According to Glick, the 1997 PCBS survey, used as the basis for later studies, inflated numbers by including over three hundred thousand Palestinians living abroad and by double-counting over two hundred thousand Jerusalem Arabs already included in Israel's population survey. Further, Glick says later PCBS surveys reflect the predictions of the 1997 PCBS survey, reporting unrealized birth forecasts, including assumptions of large Palestinian immigration that never occurred.

Based on this study, Glick argued that annexation of the West Bank would only add 1.4 million Palestinians to the population of Israel. She argued that a one-state solution with a Jewish majority and a political system rooted in Jewish values was the best way to guarantee the protection of democratic values and the rights of all minorities.<ref>Glick, Caroline. ''The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East''. New York: Crown Forum, 2014. pp. 124–33, 155–63.</ref>

The demographic statistics from the PCBS are backed by [[Arnon Soffer]] and quite similar to official Israeli figures. [[Sergio DellaPergola]] gives a figure of 5,698,500 Arabs living in Israel and the Palestinian territories in 2015, while the core Jewish population stood at 6,103,200.<ref>{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Elhanan |date=5 January 2015 |title=Right-wing annexation drive fueled by false demographics, experts say |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/right-wing-annexation-drive-fueled-by-false-demographics-experts-say/ |work=[[Times of Israel]]}}</ref>