Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the Mandate Era

by Katz,Yossi

• ISBN13: 9780714644011
• ISBN10: 0714644013
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-04-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In 1937 the British Royal Commission headed by Lord Peel proposed solving the Arab-Jewish conflict by partitioning Palestine into two nation-states. The concept of partition in exchange for a state was acceptable to the Jewish Agency Executive, but not the details set out by the Royal Commission, and thus in 1937-38 the Agency formulated an alternative plan for consideration by the British authorities. At the core of the proposal was the issue of borders - a key factor in every partition plan - but the Agency's suggestions and preparations for a Jewish state addressed additional elements including the question of Jerusalem; population transfer; the status of the Arab minority in the future Jewish state; stages in the establishment; and plans covering governance, foreign policy, immigration and development, religion and state, finance and security. In this work Yossi Katz shows that the Jewish Agency Executive's partition plan, though never implemented, was not an isolated episode, but had short-and long-term implications from the Jewish perspective - that as well as having an impact on the immediate settlement policies, it also had significant effect on the partition of Palestine in the late 1940s, and on shaping the state-in-formation.

Table of Contents

From the partition plan of the Royal Commission until the appointment of the Partition Commission

the activism of the Jewish Agency executive and the formulation of alternative partition boundaries

the proposal for partitioning Jerusalem

attempts to formulate a plan for transferring the Arab population within the framework of partition

the status and rights of the Arab minority in the future Jewish state

the demand for full sovereignty and early studies on the issue of forming a Jewish state

land purchases and settlement as tools for attaining the partition boundaries conforming to the plan of the Jewish Agency Executive

postcript or preluce? - the Jewish Agency's partition plan - an episode or a portent?

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