AHC: Texas-Israeli War 1999

Texas's refusal to extradite reputed Christian fundamentalist terrorist Billy Bob Presley, believed to be the mastermind behind the destruction of the Dome of the Rock (in an attempt to hasten the second coming), led to his abduction by Israeli special forces operating out of French Second Republic Caribbean territory. The hot-headed (and possibly slightly senile) President-for-Life of Texas declared war on both Israel and its French ally: lacking the logistical ability to attack their homelands directly, Texas then invaded French ally Mexico...

Bruce
 
Texas's refusal to extradite reputed Christian fundamentalist terrorist Billy Bob Presley, believed to be the mastermind behind the destruction of the Dome of the Rock (in an attempt to hasten the second coming), led to his abduction by Israeli special forces operating out of French Second Republic Caribbean territory. The hot-headed (and possibly slightly senile) President-for-Life of Texas declared war on both Israel and its French ally: lacking the logistical ability to attack their homelands directly, Texas then invaded French ally Mexico...

Bruce

Suh-weet!!!!
 
Texan forces respond to cross-border skirmishes by the Holy Republic of Israel, a Mormon state based out of Utah. This escalates into a full-scale war, that Texas ends up winning.
 
Israel is allied to the *Soviet Union in the Cold War, and Texas to the United States. Nuclear war.
 
Which is why the Second World War is often referred to the Hungarian-Australian War. :D

Bruce

Ach! Semantics got me!

Attempt number two: Henry Clay wins the election of 1844. Texas remains independent. German immigration is greater to Texas than OTL. Texas remains neutral in both World Wars. German emigration to Texas after World War II is massive. Former Nazis (yes, yes, butterflies) become major Texian statesmen in that conservative country. Mossaud agents capture a TTL analogue to Adolf Eichmann. Their boat is intercepted by Texian frigates in the Gulf of Mexico, and before the crisis can be resolved, they fire upon one another. This precipitates a naval war, which continues for several months until the United States invades and occupies the troublesome nation, and reconstructs it as it did Germany. Texas pays token reparations to Israel to this day.
 
Ach, Scheisse, that doesn't really make sense for 1999 so much as 1959. Back to the drawing board.
 
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