AHC/WI: British and French settlements in the Middle East

Albert.Nik

Banned
At their peak,both the British and the French had colonies in the Middle East and the Levant. So in this AHC/WI,what if British and French start building up settlements in the Middle East and parts of North Africa with Mediterranean climate which everyone loves and plenty of strategic resources from connectivity to Oil. So you could have Settler colonies of their respective Empire countries in these lands. They would build up new cities and townships and settle there. If not a total majority,they could form somewhere around 45-50% of the population in these countries. Israel still is given as a Jewish state after WW2 and probably a bit bigger and it comes in the same region where it is today but only has a friendly and a well integrated large minority of British people around 15-20%. The countries where settler colonies would be built would be in Iraq,Jordan,Lebanon,Syria,Egypt,Yemen and small parts of Palestine which later becomes Israel. So how could such a World turn out in the late 20th and 21st century? The core settlements would be done separately from the cities inhabited by natives. They would be advanced and planned settlements. In the cosmopolitan centers like Jerusalem,Damascus,Tel Aviv,Sana'a,Aden,Beirut,Aleppo,etc you could see a large minority and then after the settlements get large enough,you could see a large minority of natives there. The native civilians are treated well and nobody would be harmed. So again,how would the whole world be in the late 20th and 21st centuries?
 
Algeria meets Northern Irish Troubles on the whole MENA; probably not the best thing to happen. That said, from the perspective of the colonial metropolis, while the empire is still going strong, it would be a very good idea as it would create a base that wants them there. While I would never condone it, maybe some repopulation tactics or some tactics that are euphemized as "repopulation" and "population relocation" in conjunction to what you are proposing would probably yield either BOTs and France Outre Mer in Lebanon, or Syria, as well as elsewhere, or still worse problems like Apartheid-like regimes.
 
The Arab-Israeli wars would be paralleled by Arab-French and Arab-British wars. Eventually, outside of Lebanon the European settlers would largely move back.
 

Albert.Nik

Banned
The Arab-Israeli wars would be paralleled by Arab-French and Arab-British wars. Eventually, outside of Lebanon the European settlers would largely move back.
Would they really want to after forming a 45-50% of the population and having good wealth? Instead the belligerents would either be fought back or tamed by offering some incentives.
 
How the hell are British and French people going to form nearly half the population of the Levant? It would require massive ethnic cleansing of the Arab inhabitants. Also, it's not like the British or French even had any real desire to colonize the area like the Jews did.
 

Albert.Nik

Banned
How the hell are British and French people going to form nearly half the population of the Levant? It would require massive ethnic cleansing of the Arab inhabitants. Also, it's not like the British or French even had any real desire to colonize the area like the Jews did.
Large portions of empty lands could be irrigated using more advanced industrialized techniques of irrigation and then large settlements would be built there where the British and the French would settle with their respective colonial country. Oil and Solar could be used to power them all and it can be shared even with the other native towns and cities as well.
 

Albert.Nik

Banned
By the way,this could see Latin and Latin descendant speakers return to where they were once widespread! English is a partial descendent of Vulgar Latin and French a complete descendent of Vulgar Latin. Irish and Scottish settlers could bring back Celtic languages last seen during the Galatians. French are also descendents of Romans so that could even mean a Neo Roman Syria!
 
Large portions of empty lands could be irrigated using more advanced industrialized techniques of irrigation and then large settlements would be built there where the British and the French would settle with their respective colonial country. Oil and Solar could be used to power them all and it can be shared even with the other native towns and cities as well.

But still, you need to provide a motivation for having such a large number of British and French people immigrating to these Middle Eastern colonies; because aside from the American colonies centuries ago, they never became an outright majority or plurality in most of their overseas colonies.

See French Algeria and Italian Libya; at the peak of European migration to these countries, the settlers never exceeded more than 13% of the total population (and in the case of Libya, this was even after the Italian Army massacred tens of thousands of native people).

Having non-Jewish Europeans form somewhere in the range of 10-20% of the population of the Levant (without any violent ethnic cleansing) sounds much more plausible than having them form close to 50% of the population.
 
Would they really want to after forming a 45-50% of the population and having good wealth? Instead the belligerents would either be fought back or tamed by offering some incentives.
But if French and British wanted to leave the country, settle an area with a warm climate and have a good standard of living, why wouldn't they just emigrate to the western United States, or Australia?
 

Albert.Nik

Banned
But if French and British wanted to leave the country, settle an area with a warm climate and have a good standard of living, why wouldn't they just emigrate to the western United States, or Australia?
Coming to the British,Scottish and Irish,British Govt could pay the settlers so that the West and the Britain will have a good hold on the strategic Middle East if they have that proportion of population there. Oil and trade could be a very enriching factor coupled with developed nations of Britain and France. French would have the same motivation as British. And then because of all these reasons,USA could also support the same.
 
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