With a PoD after July 1945, how could the British pull this off?
They can't.
why not?
The Zionist guerillas differed in their objectives and tactics. It was relatively widely known that the Haganah, for example, had less desire for an immediate confrontation than the Irgun or Lehi, with the British, and that they were moving people and resources into position for the inevitable post-partition conflict during most of 1946-1947. They did little clandestine action and much of it was non-violent.
The British for their part wanted out almost as soon as possible and had wanted out for a while before the end of the war anyways. The partition plan was probably inevitable.
Beacuse the actual reason for the mandate of palestine was to create a jewish homeland, and as the didnt belive that a multi-etnic state is a viable option the decided to go for the partition plan.
The British govorment *wanted* to partition the mandate, and they wanted to get out as soon as fucking possible.
When nobody else was willing to take the refugees?
They can't.
Snip.
The British wanted out, but they wanted to preserve some semblance of a presence in Palestine, which they viewed as a major strategic area for the upcoming Cold War
In other words, you would have Britain abandon thirty years of policy to place the governance of mandatory Palestine in the hands of the less well organized, but larger population group. I don't know that they could do this under the terms of the mandate for one. Two, there is other precedent from the same era for Britain leaving a colony under the political and/or economic domination of a minority population: Sri Lanka, or, arguably Malaya. Third, for a whole host of reasons, there were very real hostilities between Jews and Arabs in the mandate. It's an unmitigated PR disaster for Britain if Ashkenazim migrate in droves to Palestine to seek escapee from pogroms in Europe only to potentially face a new one in their new land.What about the British organizing a handover of all their mandate infrastructure, and the mandate's local police forces, to people loyal to Transjordanian King Abdullah, and the chain of command of the Arab Legion. When Britain departs Palestine, it could leave all its administrative and military posts and mandate controlled real estate to this police force, and members of the Arab Legion seconded to it or on leave from it.
Not with a late POD, which you seem here to want.Granted, if you expand the Arab Legion too much or too fast you risk diluting its loyalty and relative competence, but there might have been a way to gradually extend it add a speed that new members could be vetted and brought into the Hashemite patronage network and build it up to a force that can hold on to all the positions the British ultimately hand over to them. The Arab Legion in OTL was strong enough to besiege and take the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, despite relieving it being a big priority for the Israelis and many relief attempts.
But Jewish immigration nonetheless increased, and Zionists organizations strengthened their institutional and military advantages in the mandate throughout the war despite a haphazard effort to possibly back off. Wasn't the Peel Commission right around then anyway?The 1939 White Paper was an effective disavowal of the idea of "mandate is primarily to create a Jewish National Home". And that came on top of rejecting various partition plans.