A possibility? Israeli-Palestine

What if in 1947, instead of trying to make two seperate states, is it possible for a Israeli-Palestine nation to exist?
 
More like 1983 doomsday where every position that an Israeli takes one position, must be a Palestinian in the other positions (e.g Palestinian President, Israeli Vice-president. Israeli defence minister, Palestinian deputy defence minister.)
 
What if in 1947, instead of trying to make two seperate states, is it possible for a Israeli-Palestine nation to exist?

No.

The Zionists wanted (needed) partition because as of 1948, Arabs were still a majority in the whole territory of Mandatory Palestine. In a single state, the Arabs would rule. Besides what they would probably do to the Jewish population, Arab-ruled Palestine would not permit additional Jewish immigration, which was the fundamental goal of the Zionists.

(The Zionists got partition because it was clear the Arabs would move to destroy the Jewish settlements in Palestine once they were not restrained by British rule. Partition allocated part of Palestine as a Jewish state, where the Jews could in theory live without being massacred.)
 
There were whole organizatrion dedicated to this proposition in the 30s. Brit shalom comes to mind. the problem with these Jewish - Arab get togethers was that only jews showed up.
 
I once had something in between a fever dream and a TL idea where the USSR endorses Zionism from an earlier point, resulting in a Socialist federal republic in the region. Of course, Lev Trotsky was its first head of state, so the alien space bats must have put something in my tea...
 
I once had something in between a fever dream and a TL idea where the USSR endorses Zionism from an earlier point, resulting in a Socialist federal republic in the region. Of course, Lev Trotsky was its first Head of State, so the Alien Space Bats must have put something in my tea...
Maybe it's not related, but why the URSS would embrace Sionism? I don't think that religion was one of their priorities...
 
Maybe it's not related, but why the URSS would embrace Sionism? I don't think that religion was one of their priorities...

I mean, even IOTL creating a Jewish Republic in Crimea was discussed, and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast actually created. I think that the POD was Lenin and non-Stalin successors thinking that a Jewish State would almost certainly be socialist.
 
Maybe it's not related, but why the URSS would embrace Sionism? I don't think that religion was one of their priorities...

Jews in the Zionist sense aren't coreligionists; they're a nation (like Germans rather than like Lutherans).

The early USSR went through a period where they supported their state as a union/federation of several national substates. This is when the Ukrainian SSR, the Belarusian SSR, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, and all those funny little ethnic republics within the Russian SSR were established. Later, they reversed course and set out to crush most of the non-Russian nationalities.

EDIT: it's also worth noting that during this period they also wanted to spread the Communist revolution to all possible places. Supporting a new, firmly Socialist state in the middle of the "primitives" of the Middle East would be right up their alley.
 
What are the key events from the 1920s, up to the 1940s that affect Israeli-Arab relations?

The fact that the majority of Jewish immigrants came quite late and their influx in a short period of time gave rise to conflicts with their Arab nrighbours, esp. when the Jewish immigrants bought land from absentee Ottoman landlords.
 
So what factors that are needed to make a Israeli-Palestine?
Perhaps a neutral ambassor (preferably from the US) that can broker a deal btw the Jews and Palestinians?
 
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