Greater Israel

Only way I can see this happening is if the US/UK involve themselves directly in the war. And by directly, I mean sending troops, carriers, jets etc, under their banners to crush any opposition to Israel. And while the thought of the US using a nuke on Cairo because the Egyptians attempt to nationalize the Suez Canal earlier is interesting, it's very unlikely if not impossible...
Egyptians nationalized Suez years AFTER Israel's war of independence. And your other masterpieces are not less fascinating.
 
Egyptians nationalized Suez years AFTER Israel's war of independence. And your other masterpieces are not less fascinating.

Understand I knew that, but considering that the US/UK jumped into the war, what real weapon does Egypt have? Nationalize the canal and screw over British shipping...
 
Understand I knew that, but considering that the US/UK jumped into the war, what real weapon does Egypt have? Nationalize the canal and screw over British shipping...
American/British meddling is only necessary if you are dead set on making Israel from Lybian to Iranian border (i.e. including Lower Nile area and pretty much all Iraq, Jordan and Syria). It can get West Bank, Gaza and Sinai with much smaller PODs.
 
At the time, Israeli forces were too disorganized and busy to make any true gains against the Egyptians. Conquering Sinai is impossible, conquering Gaza is highly unlikely.
The West Bank is simply ridiculous. The Israeli army barely managed to bleed the Transjordanians enough to make them agree to stop fighting for some wierdass cause they don't really care about. They were a far better military force in every perspective (except motivation).
If anything, I could see how some shit goes on between Israeli and Lebanese forces on the border. Israeli troops would invade Lebanon and cause it to collapse. The Lebanses Galilea would be annexed to Israel, and a Maronite Christian pro-Israeli national state would be founded in Beirut. That was the Ben-Gurionite fantasy, anyway.
 
At the time, Israeli forces were too disorganized and busy to make any true gains against the Egyptians.
Yeah, encircling Egyptian army in Falujah does not count. BTW, there were no other Egyptian forces worth talking about between Israeli and Suez (perennial Egyptian mistake of throwing all available forces into battle without much thought given to proper lines of operations).
Conquering Sinai is impossible, conquering Gaza is highly unlikely.
Israeli more or less finished Egyptians as proper fighting force between Gaza and Suez. They did not take Gaza because they did not want to give citizenship to another bunch of Arabs (returned it to beaten to bloody pulp Egypt in 1956 for exactly the same reason). Suez is pretty serious logistic challenge, not fighting one.
The West Bank is simply ridiculous. The Israeli army barely managed to bleed the Transjordanians enough to make them agree to stop fighting for some wierdass cause they don't really care about. They were a far better military force in every perspective (except motivation).
Jordanians failed to make any gains against volksturm of worst kind in Jerusalem (all able-bodied and trained fighters were pressed into service outside of the city, so it has very few defenders aged between 15 and 50 and not suffering some kind of chronic decease) every time Israeli had a chance to supply volksturm units with rifle cartridges (they got Old City thanks to Britons, who organized and maintained blocade for months in advance) and almost lost key position in Latrun to bunch of new immigrants, who did not have any military training, spent previous half-decade in camps and could not understand their Hebrew-speaking commanders. Israel's makeshift armoured trucks broke into Jordanian position (feat not often achieved by infinitely superior German armoured cars against ragtag Partisan groups in USSR or Yugoslavia), but "infantry" did not understand orders to attack. Then Jordan signed truce at 1st opportunity and behaved extremely quiet. If that's what you call "far better military force", so be it.
 
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