What would it take to make the 1947 partition of the Palestine Mandate to work?

We all know how it ended. But could it work? The Jewish leadership accepted the plan, though with heavy heart, but the Arab leadership did not. The British were not really interested in keeping peace and left the region as soon as possible.What could make the Arab leadership more friendly to the plan, and the British to try and implement it?
 
Does it have to be exactly as the borders where in the deal or can they be altered because one thing I think would help is to have more connectivity between the Palestinian regions so the Arab leaders don't feel as boxed in.
 
Does it have to be exactly as the borders where in the deal or can they be altered because one thing I think would help is to have more connectivity between the Palestinian regions so the Arab leaders don't feel as boxed in.
Both Arab main sectors (and both Jewish main sectors) were connected with one another via a thin extraterritorial passage. Both states are de facto contiguous. If those narrow strips were made into quadripoints the states would also be de jure contiguous.

Anyway, what do you propose that the Jewish leadership wouldn't outright refuse?
 
Both Arab main sectors (and both Jewish main sectors) were connected with one another via a thin extraterritorial passage. Both states are de facto contiguous. If those narrow strips were made into quadripoints the states would also be de jure contiguous.

Anyway, what do you propose that the Jewish leadership wouldn't outright refuse?

I knew that but that thin contiguous border needs to be beefed up a bit, the Palestinian leaders felt the corridors where too thin and easily cut off which contributed to the idea on their part it was just an Israeli foot in the door to destroying an independent Palestine.
 
I knew that but that thin contiguous border needs to be beefed up a bit, the Palestinian leaders felt the corridors where too thin and easily cut off which contributed to the idea on their part it was just an Israeli foot in the door to destroying an independent Palestine.
The Arabs would have Israel by its balls the same way the Jewish had Palestine by its balls: if the Arabs take over the corridors themselves, Israel is split in 3.

If we beef up the one corridor that is under Arab control (and I suppose, keep the other one that is under Jewish control as it is) why would the Jewish accept that? This thing is unsolvable, if you ask me.
 
Perhaps the Arabs receive intellegence that Egypt is planning to annex the Gaza and Jordan is planning to annex the West Bank of the Jordan River. They decide to accept the deal on a "temporary basis", figuring that independence with poor borders is better than occupation. Although they promise to liberate the rest of Palestine the country becoems a Cyprus like status-quo for the rest of the century.
 
Terribly cynical but avoid the Turks entering WW1 or doing so on the allied side. Problem solved, as long as you are Turkish.
 
Well its said that Amin al-Husseini who was heavily allied with Hitler during WW2, that he Amin was the driving force behind the first war in 1947.

If you butterfly him out the picture maybe if the Brits are able excute him for tresson during WW2. Where after the brits replace him with a moderate.

Could that have given a peaceful partion in 1947?
 
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Fairer boundaries. The Arabs get Jerusalem and a corridor between the west Bank and Gaza Strip.

In return Israel gets a corridor to the Jezreel Valley, with Acre becoming an exclave.
Israel won't like that Jerusalem is in Arab hands. So this time will be the Arabs that may grudgingly accept and the Jewish that would refuse...

The OTL UN Partition Plan sounds like one of the most middle ground solutions between what both ethnicities were willing to concede and it wasn't enough.

Whoever comes out with a variation of the map gets a geometry Fields Medal! ;) I suspect however that mathematicians will eventually prove that this problem is unsolvable.
 
Two things are needed, and we would probably nevertheless still have a similar quagmire as today:

-UN occupation troops strong enough to deter any side to start the war of 1948
-a Marshall plan to integrate the Arab refugees into the economies of their new homes

Now as with all other ideas, these need to be accepted first. But I am afraid that re-drawing the border of 1947 this way or the other won't be much of a help.
 
Fairer boundaries. The Arabs get Jerusalem and a corridor between the west Bank and Gaza Strip.

In return Israel gets a corridor to the Jezreel Valley, with Acre becoming an exclave.

Giving Jerusalem to the Arabs would just make the Jews refuse. There were a lot of Jews in Jerusalem at that point already, IIRC they were very close to being 50% of the city's population, perhaps even being slightly over that. No one would agree to it, including the UN commission in charge, and certainly not the Yishuv leadership, that could deal with a Jerusalem under international control but not under foreign Arab control. Besides, giving the Arabs Jerusalem still doesn't give the Arabs what they demand - it gives them other stuff that they might want, but doesn't solve the main issues.
 
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