Overview

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.

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Author:   Yossi Katz
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780714648460

ISBN 10:   0714648469
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   30 April 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Choice - 1998 ""Rather dryly written, this monograph is nevertheless a useful addition to libraries with specialised collections on the Middle East."" The Jerusalem Post ""A well written and piercingly researched book by a most knowledgeable scholar, of tremendous contemporary relevance."" Zion - review in Hebrew - see file Middle East Journal - Vol. 53, No. 3, Summer 1999 ""Katz has done fine and fairly comprehensive archival work ... This is a valuable monograph on one aspect of a formative period in Zionist history."" Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol 28, No 4, Summer 1999 ""Yossi Katz, a professor of geography at Bar-Ilan University, has produced more than a discussion of territorial mapmaking; he summarizes a host of Zionist research reports, position papers, and internal debates, and translates dozens of fascinating verbatim quotations from the lips of the major Zionist decision makers."" The International History Review ""another important contribution to a fair historiographic treatment of the Jewish-Arabic conflict in Palestine"

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