"They've shown that partition doesn't equal division".
They are scrawled on the blast walls that partition this city of concrete.
But the EU also decided last December that partition need not, in theory, prevent Cyprus joining.
It escaped the intercommunal violence that Partition brought to the neighboring Punjab when the British left the subcontinent, in 1947.
Those who still favor a centralized state like to insist that partition would further destabilize the country.
This was a position that he had previously opposed, and, according to Hajari, he privately "reassured skeptical colleagues that Partition was only a bargaining chip".
Other assessments, however, emphasize that Partition, far from emerging inevitably out of a policy of divide-and-rule, was largely a contingent development.
A few weeks before sending the bulldozers to eradicate Netzarim and Kfar Darom, he was still not able to admit that partition would be his legacy.
The good news is that partition will have the practical effect of limiting Iran's influence to southern Iraq and parts of Baghdad.
The plan failed, hostilities continued and, in 1938, the Woodhead Commission reworked Peel's proposals into three variations, eventually concluding that partition would be impracticable.
