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The basic scenario is that the War is the same in the first six days, and Israel conquers the same regions from her neighbours. The POD is in the sixth day, when no ceasefire is signed and Israel instead crosses the Suez Canal, and possibly even the Jordan river, and pushes onwards into Syria, Jordan and Egypt. My questions are:

1. What modifications have to be made into OTL to make the ceasefire not happen?

2. What would it take for Israel to at least efficiently fight on and probably be successful, and what would it require the Arabs to do to counter that?

3. How successful can Israel be? IE would it conquer any Arab capitals? Would crossing the Canal even have good chances of success? Would Jordan or Iraq decide to pull out and give in to Israeli demands in such a scenario, or would they just fight on more vigorously?

4. What are the international consequences? Regarding both the relations of the Western World with Israel, the USSR's relations with Israel, Soviet relations with Arab countries (maybe becoming even more dependent on the Soviets and becoming pretty much their puppets?), and especially: would a successful Israel in this scenario mean a prolonging of the conflict, or would Arab powers capitulate more easily and agree to normalize relations with Israel in return for conquered land? What would the borders of the middle east might look like after an Israeli victory?

5. For the Palestinians, what would it mean? In the Shabak, the Israeli security service, a few years after 67', some ideas of founding a Palestinian state that would basically be an Israeli dependency came up. Is that scenario plausible? If not, in the long term (i.e 40+ years) what would happen in the West Bank and Gaza? Much like OTL, maybe, or worse?

6. How long can the war last, if Israel crosses the Suez Canal, before Arab Powers capitulate, or Israel capitulates, or the US and USSR force a ceasefire?
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