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The most likely post-war scenario is a partition of Afghanistan, with the Taliban calling the shots in the Pashtun-dominated south and east, and the non-Pashtun northern and western regions retaining their current de facto autonomy.
NEW DELHI – Seventy-one years after the partition of India, and 47 years after the former East Pakistan became Bangladesh, one of the legacies of the messy division of the subcontinent has returned to haunt the country.
Assad must maintain control over these areas to fortify his position in any political negotiations and eventual settlement, including a potential partition.
A partial Russian victory, like that in Georgia or Ukraine, would mean carving out pieces of western Syria under Russo-Iranian protection, and ultimately the de facto partition of the country.
The brutal behavior of the Sudanese regime based in Khartoum has made the country’s evolution towards partition both inevitable and legitimate.
The main question now is whether partition will be held up as a model and a precedent elsewhere in Africa.
Many Israelis and Palestinians have come to recognize the reality of one another’s existence and the need for some sort of partition of the land into two states.
If Menachem Begin’s ultra-nationalist Irgun had joined a coalition with Ben-Gurion’s pragmatic Mapai in 1947, Zionists would have rejected the partition of Palestine, and Ben-Gurion would not have been allowed to declare the Jewish state in May 1948.
But the end of Germany’s partition also meant the end of the Cold War’s bipolar world order; and, as the world confronts an accumulation of dangerous regional crises and tensions (in Ukraine, the Middle East, and East Asia), the absence of a new order has become dangerously apparent.
Failure in WWI led to radicalization under Adolf Hitler, which ended in total defeat and Germany’s partition.
The most outspoken anti-government forces in Santa Cruz seem to be itching for partition.
More democracy and material welfare probably can co-exist with realistic local autonomy, whereas partition, it should be remembered, does not always breed political pluralism, social cohesion, and economic well-being.
A formal, mutually acceptable partition of Kosovo – a territorial exchange of the type that almost everyone concedes is the only viable solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict – could achieve a full and final settlement.
The case for partition is historical as well: these districts were part of Serbia until Tito redrew Yugoslavia’s internal borders in the 1950’s.
Only such international intransigence – and that of the Kosovo government – stands in the way of partition as an equitable and fair solution.
Opponents of partition fear opening a Pandora’s Box of other Balkan issues.
As for Syria, the worst that can happen is unacceptable: effective partition of the country, with a poor, extremist-led Sunni state in the east, shut out from the sea and the country’s wealth.
Obama had no trouble deporting more than two million Mexicans and Central Americans during his eight years in office; and there is already a partition along more than 700 miles of the 1,951-mile-long US-Mexico border.
It is not hard to imagine Trump beating Obama’s deportation record and expanding the border partition by as many miles as his predecessors have since 1993, when construction began under US President Bill Clinton.
The third failure – even more tragic – occurred in 1947-48, when Palestinian Arabs rejected the United Nations partition plan, which envisaged separate Arab and Jewish states after the departure of the British.
Yugoslavia's example shows that in multi-ethnic and multi-religious countries deeply riven by conflict, partition and separation may be the only way to ensure stability and democratization.
Unlike Poland three times in the eighteenth century, there can be no question of partition, with western Ukraine joining Europe and the country’s east returning to Russia.
The visible measures necessitated by the pandemic – face masks, greater distance between MPs, and plastic partition screens – may not be all that is different about this parliamentary session.
The religious bigotry that led to partition and the establishment of Pakistan has now been mirrored in pluralist India.
As I told my fellow parliamentarians, that was a partition of India’s soil; this has become a partition of India’s soul.
But this de facto partition ultimately may not reduce instability in Yemen and the region.
Kashmir represents the unfinished business from the 1947 partition of India that created Pakistan.
The conflict – largely forgotten by the world – has raged since the partition of India in 1947, when the maharaja abandoned the goal of Kashmiri independence and joined India in exchange for its help fighting an invasion of tribesmen from Pakistan.
Such images were last seen in India seven decades ago, when the country’s partition and the emergence of Pakistan forced millions of displaced people to stagger across the borders to their new homelands.
US President Donald Trump made the stunning declaration that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to mediate the Kashmir dispute, the most sensitive issue dividing India and Pakistan since partition and independence in 1947.
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