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A good starting point, which could solve 2/3 of the problem, would be to settle the refugees outside of the West Bank and Gaza, where else, where they are (as you'll note, in footnote b, Israel did over 5 decades ago). UNRWA stats from a pro-Palestinian source.

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UNRWA Registered Refugees (1950 - 2000) By Each Five Years
(as of 30th June each year) (a)

Year	Lebanon	Syria	Jordan	West Bank	Gaza	Total
1950	127,600	82,194	506,200	--	198,227	914,221 (b)
1955	100,820	88,330	502,135	--	214,701	905,986
1960	136,561	115,043	613,743	--	255,542	1,120,889
1965	159,810	135,971	688,089	--	296,953	1,280,823
1970	175,958	158,717	506,083	272,692	311,814	1,425,219
1975	196,855	184,042	625,857	292,922	333,031	1,632,707
1980	226,554	209,362	716,372	324,035	367,995	1,844,318
1985	263,599	244,626	799,724	357,704	427,892	2,093,545
1990	302,049	288,731	929,097	414,298	296,339	2,422,514
1995	346,164	337,308	1,288,197	517,412	683,560	3,172,641
2000	376,472	383,199	1,570,192	583,009	824,622	3,737,494

Source: UNRWA Annual Reports.

(a) Given the impossibility of carrying out a proper census of refugees throughout the area of operations, these statistics are based on the registration records of UNRWA, which are updated periodically. The number of registered refugees present in the Agency's area of operations, however, is almost certainly less than that recorded.

(b) This total excludes 45,800 persons receiving relief in Israel, who were the responsiblity of UNRWA until June 1952.

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Thank you for the refugee list. That's very interesting. Taking the "refugees" out of the west bank and Jordan would move 1.3 million of the claimed 3 million Palestinian Arabs out of Israel.

By the way, I wonder how many people who post here are aware that roughly an equivalent number of Jews from Arab countries were expelled from those countries (or left under extreme duress) during the same period. All were resettled, mostly in the US, UK, France and Israel, and none has refugee status.