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The Original map of the mandate, or at least the one the british had. World war 1 had just ended and President Wilson was being well a complete Pest, so the americans were given the mandate to shut us up and like idiots well we agreed. This was some thing that a lot of people back home didn't need or want and what ever idealistic plans wilson had died with his stroke. Leaving us with a whole bunch of people who hated us, and hated each other, and promptly started the first arab revolt which was put down with machine guns.

The Harding adminstration, not knowing anything about the middle east decided to go with the brillent idea of splitting it into three roughtly equal thirds, the eastern 3rd was handed to the jews, the north to the muslums, and the south to the christians the holy city was like wise split up. When asked how this would work he shrugged his shoulders and talked about population transfers. This led to the 2nd arab revolt which was also put down. Then you had the coolage presidency which put the harding plan into action. Mainly by letting the revolting arabs control the cities and then cutting off their food and water in a three year long seige. The survivors moved, we thought hey now we can leave....

Nope the 30s came and gave us a what 15 year long refugee crisis as poland evicted their entire jewish population, then the germans followed suit and evicted every jew they could, and we still had to remain there to stop the three faiths from murdering each other. Then of course world war two happened and now we were at war, and guess what the arabs revolted again.....

Post war we finally got out of that mess, and three independent countries were created, Israel, Jordan, and Arabia. Fast forward to today, Jordan a jinoistic christian theocracy that poses as a democracy, Arabia instantly went communist the minute we left and is one of the last communist countries on earth. One thats so bad that North korea has asked them to mellow out. Of the three Israel's the most sane being a functional democracy, and even they have nukes and a paranoid streak a mile wide.

I think its safe to say that we completely and utterally screwed it up, that their's pretty much no way that the british could possibly screw it up as badly as we did. So what would the world be like if the british had gotten the mandate instead of us? Or some one else, any one else.
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