Chapter 3. “The meat and the bones”: reassessing the origins of the partition of mandate Palestine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Maps ix
5. Introduction. Drawing the line, writing beyond it: toward a transnational history of partitions 1
6. Part I. Origins and genealogies
7. Chapter 1. From minority to nation 31
8. Chapter 2. The architect of two partitions or a federalist daydreamer? the curious case of Reginald Coupland 56
9. Chapter 3. “The meat and the bones”: reassessing the origins of the partition of mandate Palestine 85
10. Part II. Distances transversed
11. Chapter 4. “Indian Ulsterisation”— Ireland, India, and partition: the infection of example? 111
12. Chapter 5. “Close parallels”? interrelated discussions of partition in south Asia and the Palestine mandate (1936–1948) 128
13. Chapter 6. Analogical thinking and partition in British mandate Palestine 154
14. Part III. Acceptance, resistance, and accommodation
15. Chapter 7. Rejecting partition the imported lessons of Palestine’s binational Zionists 175
16. Chapter 8. Arab liberal intellectuals and the partition of Palestine 203
17. Chapter 9. Poets of partition: the recovery of lost causes 224
18. Epilogue. Partitions, hostages, transfer: retributive violence and national security 257
19. Notes 297
20. Suggestions for further reading 357
21. Contributors 361
22. Index 365