Sullivan Actually Sullies Himself This Time

Go on, have a real hearty laugh at the stupidity of Andrew Sullivan when he writes in The Atlantic:

...Jerusalem was 84 percent Arab in 1946 and well within Palestinian authority under the partition plan the Palestinian Arabs rejected. It is undoubtedly true that Palestinian and wider Arab refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist has been a huge part of this problem - arguably the central reason for this conflict. But it remains true to my mind that the current Israeli government needs an attitude adjustment, and soon.

In case you are wondering why I am laughing and why you should laugh, well,

a) Jerusalem had a Jewish majority since the late19th century;

and

b) Jerusalem was actually slated to become a corpus separatum, a "special international regime'y under the 1947 Partition Plan recommendation, B-III and the territory slated for such an entity was much larger than even today's municipal boundaries - which means that all of the so-called "Jewish east Jerusalem neighborhoods" are not in annexed Jerusalem but are in the area the UN set aside for Jerusalem, albeit under an alternative administrative institution;

and

c) true or not, Israel's "attitude" needs no adjustment. The 'Pals.' need a complete turnabout not only in attitude but deed.

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AK asks me to add:


Note that he says Jerusalem was well within "Palestinian" (by which he means Palestinian Arab) authority. Not so. Not only because, as you note, it was to be in a corpus separatum, but because there was no Palestinian Arab entity in the picture then. Dealings were with existing Arab states.