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Prior to WWII, revisionist zionists in Palestine and their correspondents in Poland, Romania, Hungary, and other countries with large Jewish minorities planned to evacuate millions of Jews to Palestine, ideally with British cooperation but also taking steps to drive the British out. Jabotinsky and the Polish government, in particular, planned a migration of a million Polish Jews to Palestine over the course of the 1940s, and the Polish government lobbied diplomatically (and militarily, training Jewish militias for war against Britain) to expand the areas of Jewish settlement. Similar discussions with the Romanian and Hungarian governments indicate willingness on those governments’ parts to support Jewish emigration. Timothy Snyder’s ‘Black Earth’ describes the revisionist Zionist plan as involving mass landings of ships loaded with refugees and Jewish fighters on the Palestinian coast.

If WWII is averted circa 1938 and there is no catastrophic European war before about 1950, could Jabotinsky’s plan come to fruition? Could the Zionists drive out the British by force without WWII, or illegally immigrate in large numbers without a fight? What would such an Israel look like, with an additional 1-2 million Eastern European Jews by 1949?
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