DBWI: Israel Wins War of 1948?

What if Israel was able to overcome the odds and beat the Arab Invasion of 1948? Would they replace Palestine? If they did the Arabs would certainly war against them until they were destroyed so how long would Israel survive? Would they still establish the Jewish State? How would the rest of the world react to a Jewish Palestine? Would they support it?
 
The Middle East might be peaceful, when you think about it. The Arab nations was united to destroyed Israel. After that was over they all started fighting each other over what was to be Israel, old rivalry between the Arabs took hole, outside and inside.

Palestine might be a real nation and not land divide between the winners of the 1948 war.
 
I don't think you'd see a lot of Jews moving to Israel, as the religious ones would think Zionism is idolatry, and the secular leftists would object to the colonialist aspects of the whole enterprise. So you'd end up with a rump state, regarded as a joke at best, and villified as a monstrosity at worst, even among Jews.

The Soviets might cynically continue their suppport for realpolitik reasons, and try to encourage their Jewish populations to move there, but without much success. A few starry-eyed true-believers would heed the call, and head out to the kibbutzim, making a laughingstock of themselves trying to build agrarian socialism in the desert, on Moscow's dime.
 
If Israel wins it gives one of two ways, armed to the teeth and about as paranoid as the koreas since the continuation war because the Arabs have united against them or they turn into a bucolic backwater that's economically focused on agriculture only because the Arab league is so busy infighting that they ignore Israel. My honest opinion is that the second is the more likely possibility. They would be a lot like otl Lebanon, not important enough to be fought over and also not important enough for the west to invest in. One thing is certain with Jordan holding Jerusalem, you know they would never give that city up and the Arab legion is one of if not the premier force in the middle east, what's the real interest in a bunch of Jews? The other Arabic states would have objectives worth going after not isreal
 
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