Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, urged Arab countries today to follow his example and send home all Palestinians to expose what he said was Israel's plan to create a Palestinian state in name only.

Speaking at a makeshift camp in the desert near the border with Egypt, Mr. Qaddafi told a crowd of thousands that his expulsion of thousands of Palestinians was the greatest service to the aims of establishing a Palestinian homeland.

"The Zionist plan is to create a Palestine without Palestinians," he said, adding that "other Arab countries are taking part in this Zionist plan by allowing the Palestinians to stay in their land."

But in the West Bank, both supporters and opponents of the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasir Arafat, in a rare show of unity, heaped scorn on Mr. Qaddafi at a news conference today for what they called the "transfer" of Palestinians from Libya.