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It is true that Palestinians, who comprised the vast majority of the population and owned an overwhelming share of the land, were unhappy with the
partition
plan, which awarded them 46% of mandatory Palestine.
As long as that
partition
remains in place, SDRs will function, at best, like a credit line that can be used unconditionally by the holder – a kind of overdraft facility, not a true reserve asset.
The consequences of partition, however, remain: Pakistan has not yet been able to evolve an administratively credible government.
In Afghanistan, too, an Iraq-style “soft”
partition
may be the best possible outcome.
The fact that Afghanistan’s ethnic groups are concentrated in distinct geographical zones would simplify
partition
and make the resulting borders more likely to last, unlike those drawn by colonial officials, who invented countries with no national identity or historical roots.
With a war-exhausted US having run out of patience, outside forces are in no position to prevent Afghanistan’s
partition
along Iraqi (or even post-Yugoslav) lines, with the bloodiest battles expected to rage over control of ethnically mixed strategic areas, including Kabul.
A weak, partitioned Afghanistan may not be a desirable outcome; but a “soft”
partition
now would be far better than a “hard”
partition
later, after years of chaos and bloodletting – and infinitely better than the medieval Taliban’s return to power and a fresh reign of terror.
Indeed,
partition
may be the only way to prevent Afghanistan from sliding into large-scale civil war and to thwart transnational terrorists from reestablishing a base of operations in the rubble.
According to this view, a protracted civil war can be expected, with the most probable long-term outcome being a permanent
partition
along ethno-sectarian fault lines.
Instead of thinking what Ahtisaari deemed unthinkable, a
partition
of Kosovo with a small part of the north going to Serbia and the rest linked to the Kosovars ethnic brethren in Albania or a separate state, the US plans to act without the UN’s blessing, arguing that only an independent Kosovo will bring stability to the Western Balkans.
A million people lost their lives in the savagery of the subcontinent’s
partition
into India and Pakistan, and 13 million more were displaced, most forcibly.
The Palestinian Arab state envisioned by the United Nations’ 1947
partition
plan, which was to include Gaza, was never established.
One such outcome might be the
partition
of Iraq into separate Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish states.
Nor is it based on geography: the “natural” geography of the subcontinent, framed by the mountains and the sea, was rent by the
partition
of 1947.
So it adopted the identity of an Islamic Republic – a seemingly direct and logical evolution from “Muslims as a distinct nation” before
partition
to Pakistan as an “Islamic State” afterward.
Nor can one be buoyed by Joseph Biden’s repeated calls for a “soft partition” of Iraq, even though the entire Iraqi political class has rejected the notion.
Only those who understand the pain of the
partition
of British India in 1947 will appreciate the powerful symbolism of a child of Hindu parents being welcomed back warmly to Muslim Pakistan.
Some people now warn of a “Lebanonization” of Syria –
partition
of the country into rival fiefdoms and quasi-independent regions.
In Libya, four scenarios may negatively affect prospects for democratization: civil/tribal war, military rule, becoming “stuck in transition,” and
partition.
The fourth scenario is partition, with the old three-province, Ottoman-style setup commonly mentioned: Cyrenaica (east), Fezzan (south), and Tripolitania (west).
On one side stands the risk of protracted conflict and the
partition
of its territory.
If the Hamas-Fatah split brings about another territorial partition, Palestinians’ national aspirations will suffer their gravest setback in the last half-century.
A Serbian insurgency and de facto
partition
of Kosovo remain possible, and we have yet to face the destabilizing effects of Kosovo’s claim to independence on other divided Balkan states such as Bosnia and Macedonia But the balance sheet is even worse in terms of international relations.
Pakistan was created by the
partition
of British India in 1947, but its territory was divided into two enclaves separated by hundreds of miles.
But for years the US and Israel have not uttered a word about the dozens of UN resolutions, going back as far as Resolution 49 on
partition
in 1947, which called for the establishment of distinct Arab and Jewish states on roughly half of Mandated Palestine.
In promoting and pursuing terrorism as an instrument of state policy, Pakistan seems intent on never regaining that trust, without which peace, unseen in South Asia since the
partition
of British India in 1947, is impossible.
In fact, the most likely outcome of any Afghan power struggle triggered by an American withdrawal would be to formalize the present de facto
partition
of Afghanistan along ethnic lines – the direction in which Iraq, too, is headed.
With the vote set to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the 1947 UN decision to
partition
Palestine, this sensitive issue has rattled many, including the European Commission – although its voice has once again been drowned out by its member states’ cacophony.
The number of those with memories of the bloody 1947
partition
that produced India and Pakistan as independent states is declining, and for the young generation, Pakistan is no longer a part of the great nation that was lost, but a hostile neighbor that supports violent, fundamentalist jihad.
Despite partition, India's mood in the first decades of independence was one of idealism and hope.
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