DBWI: Jewish State in the Levant

In the late 1940s, the British had a plan that was ultimately scrapped, to partition the Mandate of Palestine (now divided between Jordan and Egypt) between the Jews and Arabs. Instead, a European Jewish state was carved out of a portion of Saxony, Thurnigia and Northeast Bavaria.

What would happen if the state was instead formed in the Levant in historic Judea/Israel?
 
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I'm wondering on what linguistic base such a state would work. Growing up as a non-Jew in northern Yisroyl myself (I think the official figure right now is roughly 65% Jews, 25% Christians, 10% non-religious), I can state that daily life between Jews and non-Jews is quite normal because Yiddish is not too far away from German. But if they'd have founded a Jewish state down there, they'd somehow need to revive Hebrew - I don't know how that would work. Possibly the integration of Sephardic Jews might have worked better. They are still frowned upon by our mainstream politicians and by much of the population - Jewish and goyim alike. Jews consider them to be "not real Jews", while Christians (especially the antisemitic Bavarian Order of Virgin Mary) and atheists see them as alien "desert people".

Without Jewish immigration, the megalopolis of Bernburg-Halberstadt-Köthen-Halle (considered to be the "Silicon Valley of Anhalt") would probably be a bit smaller and more rural.
 
Well, there will be no Arabia for one. You'll basically be condemning one of the world's major nations to endless infighting based on their response to the Jewish state to the point where it will never form. Since the pan-Arab union has good enough despite initial hurdles, how might the world react without such an influential player in politics (looking at the oil money in particular!).
 
I'm wondering on what linguistic base such a state would work. Growing up as a non-Jew in northern Yisroyl myself (I think the official figure right now is roughly 65% Jews, 25% Christians, 10% non-religious), I can state that daily life between Jews and non-Jews is quite normal because Yiddish is not too far away from German. But if they'd have founded a Jewish state down there, they'd somehow need to revive Hebrew - I don't know how that would work. Possibly the integration of Sephardic Jews might have worked better. They are still frowned upon by our mainstream politicians and by much of the population - Jewish and goyim alike. Jews consider them to be "not real Jews", while Christians (especially the antisemitic Bavarian Order of Virgin Mary) and atheists see them as alien "desert people".

Without Jewish immigration, the megalopolis of Bernburg-Halberstadt-Köthen-Halle (considered to be the "Silicon Valley of Anhalt") would probably be a bit smaller and more rural.

Raising a dead language from the grave sounds impossible. Maybe wider adoption of Aramaic, which is still spoken in scattered areas of the region

Well, there will be no Arabia for one. You'll basically be condemning one of the world's major nations to endless infighting based on their response to the Jewish state to the point where it will never form. Since the pan-Arab union has good enough despite initial hurdles, how might the world react without such an influential player in politics (looking at the oil money in particular!).

If anything, a jewish state would provide the perfect "other" enemy for Arabia, and maybe the pan-arab movement would be a federation rather than a fractious supra-national union.
 
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