Israel in the second World War

The short answer is no way. One can debate the reasons why, but the UK, holder of the "Palestine Mandate" for the League of Nations, was NOT inclined to push things in the direction of a Jewish state in the 1920s -- and even less so in the 1930s -- despite the Balfour Declaration.
 
The short answer is no way. One can debate the reasons why, but the UK, holder of the "Palestine Mandate" for the League of Nations, was NOT inclined to push things in the direction of a Jewish state in the 1920s -- and even less so in the 1930s -- despite the Balfour Declaration.

This. Britain was pretty anti-Semetic at the time - but so was everyone else, to be honest.
 
A Liberal or Labour government in the UK almost certainly would have pushed the creation of Israel through in the 1930s, if not before kristallnacht then very soon after.
 

Cook

Banned
A Liberal or Labour government...

Such a proposal by a British government of any persuasion is extremely unlikely since it would have critically compromised British interests in the Middle East.
 
Such a proposal by a British government of any persuasion is extremely unlikely since it would have critically compromised British interests in the Middle East.

I think Dominion status deals with the concerns about strategic and economic interests there.
 
If it did exist, it would certainly be a meagre player militarily, but financially and politically its role could grow quite major once the impact of the Holocaust is understood. It would give an added anti-anti-semetic element to the politics of the group of world leaders, and could be quite important in the closing stages of the war

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Grey Wolf
 

Cook

Banned
I think Dominion status deals with the concerns about strategic and economic interests there.

No, it doesn’t. Palestine itself was of no value at all to the British. It’s only intrinsic value was in its’ location. A Dominion of Palestine would immediately collapse into a civil war that would have made the Irish one look polite. Such a situation would have been a potential threat to the Suez Canal. Keeping control of Egypt and The Gulf, including Iraq, was difficult enough without a civil war right in the cockpit of the region.
 
Not without a PoD much earlier than that.

A Jewish homeland could, possibly, have been established in the same period of time, which would require a PoD that led, for whatever reason, to the U.K. never establishing a presence of any sort in the land. Once the U.K. had moved in militarily, there was no way for a Jewish homeland to come into being in any form, Balfour declaration notwithstanding.

And, even then, let me reemphasize the phrase Jewish homeland: even that would be difficult, and a such would not have a government outside the auspices of some other power - ironically, in my opinion, the most likely being a somehow more widely supported, larger and more unified Arab revolt and postwar state. And, keep in mind, this is merely in my mind the "most likely", not actually likely in and of itself.

So the answer is, on the question of a Jewish state, however meager, in the 1920s is a clear no, unless you have a major PoD well before World War I, and at that point the butterflies are much more difficult to predict by the 1920s-1940s.

Or, of course, ASBs.
 
Simply, nope.

Not big enough number of Jews there in 1920.;)

And that is the main reason. You'd have to have a PoD pretty far back to change both the anti-semetic attitudes of the British government and make scattered Jewish people across Europe want to move to the desert.
 
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