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Dissertation Information for Yossi Feintuck

NAME:
- Yossi Feintuck

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (1985)

ADVISORS:
- Fraser J Harbutt

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected

Title: WASHINGTON AND JERUSALEM: THE UNITED STATES POSITION ON THE STATUS OF JERUSALEM, 1947-1967 (ISRAEL)

Abstract: On November 29, 1947, the United States backed a United Nations General Assembly resolution recommending the establishment of an international corpus separatum in Jerusalem. But when the British mandate over Palestine expired on May 14, 1948, the world organization was unwilling and unable to carry out its resolution. Jerusalem was now a brutal battlefield in the Palestine war. When the hostilities ended, Jerusalem was divided between Israel and Transjordan. The prospects, at this juncture, of establishing a corpus separatum in Jerusalem were critically reduced. This was inevitable as the Truman administration withdrew its early support of corpus separatum and was reluctant to send American troops and provide necessary funds for creating a corpus separatum regime in Jerusalem.

Subsequently, the United States pushed through the United Nations' Palestine Conciliation Commission a new proposal for Jerusalem. It provided for a less comprehensive international regime than corpus separatum. But the General Assembly chose on December 9, 1949 to reassert the concept of corpus separatum, declining to consider any other substitutes for a full territorial internationalization of the Holy City.

Albeit reluctantly, the United States decided to abide by the United Nations resolution; it continued, therefore, to regard Jerusalem as a single and undivided international city. However, neither Israel nor Transjordan was willing to comply with the resolution. Both asserted full sovereignty over their respective sectors of the city.

Since the United Nations refrained from any further discussion of the subject after 1950, the issue remained, for the most part, quiescent until the 1967 war when Israel captured the Jordanian-held portion of Jerusalem and moved briskly to unify the divided city. At this time, however, the American government reaction to the unification of Jerusalem implied an acceptance of the new reality there. Washington now viewed the Jerusalem question as a non-central aspect of the Arab-Israeli conflict. A solution for the issue of Jerusalem was, accordingly, to be found not by the United Nations but rather through a comprehensive Arab-Israeli reconciliation.

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