A thought I've been tossing around in my head for quite a while now. Could a Jewish state have been established in Palestine, even in a world where the Entente won the Great War?
Im going to say its highly unlikely. The Ottoman Empire may have lost Palestine in the Post-war Treaty, but eventually all the Muslim states will unite and kick the Jews out, there is no way the Jews can with stand that much onslaught.
Things weren't as rosy for the Jews at the beginning of the 20th century as they are now: they were pretty much hated outcasts everywhere. There actually was a movement called "Zionism" around that time which wanted to establish a Jewish "home nation" called Zion, but the movement ended up dying a slow lingering death from the '40s to the '60s as things got better for Jewish people in their own countries, making the movement irrelevant.Why would the Jews want to move to Palestine? It's desert and swampland surrounded by hostile Arabs.
They already number in the millions in East Africa, Somaliland, Tanzania and Rhodesia. Warm, beautiful lands where they have dramatically helped the locals.
What's the point?
Yeah, that's my point. Right now, Jewish people in Africa have it brilliant. Around the time of the Great War, they didn't. No Jews did. Although a nation like Zion is unthinkable now, it wasn't then.Zionism was that guy Herzl's idea, right? I can understand the religious element, but in these modern times, with Africa having been so good to them, what is the point? The Jews practically rule East Africa, to the point you probably could call it Zion and actually have it not be laughed at.
Dude, we're not talking about some weirdo fringe terrorist Neo-Zionists. We're talking about the possibility of Zion being established some time after the Great War. This is an alternate history forum, in case you forgot.Good Grief!!! Why are we listening to a few rabid terrorists and their demands? Ever since Meyer Kahane, leader of the Kach guerillas, was hanged by British and Ottoman authorities in 1990, people have been talking about the state of Zion as if it would work politically. With Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane and of Rabbi Avraham Toledano bombing civilians in Istanbul (2001) and Damascus (2004), I am surprised that the Muslim world isn't planning to attack Europe or the United States in some form of retaliation....