Israeli Defense Force... Under Embargo?

Israeli Armed Forces, under arms embargo…
There’s a been a couple threads about what the South African military might have looked like without an arms embargo. That got me thinking about another scenario where the situation was reversed:
Israel, 1948. They’d just kicked the snot out of multiple Arab armies (this isn’t a debate of that war).And lets say that per OTL, we have hundreds of thousands of Palestinians relocated into the West Bank, and otherwise removed from their land.
America and the UK in OTL did relatively little to remedy this beyond UN Resolution 194… which ended up not meaning anything practical.
However, let’s say the US and the UK DID buckled down a bit more. Granted, most of the world was still riding on post-WWII sympathy towards the Holocaust survivors, but for the sake of discussion, let’s say that in support of 194, the US and UK decide they aren’t going to allow further arms shipments to Israel until the situation is “rectified”. Regardless of how “rectified” is defined, Israel is now cut off from her major arms supplies. Immigrants continue to flood in, as well as monetary support.

So, what do they do? Late 1940’s, and the floods of surplus of WWII material from the US and UK has been turned off. Where would they go for weapons, and what would the IDF end up looking like?
 

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So, what do they do? Late 1940’s, and the floods of surplus of WWII material from the US and UK has been turned off. Where would they go for weapons, and what would the IDF end up looking like?

They buy even more French, Czech and Soviet equipment, using foreign donations and the like. Pretty much like IOTL, but more so really.

Which a means a lot of WWII surplus, especially things like Panzer V Panthers, and KV and T-34 derivatives.

They'd probably have a crap ton more ex-Wehrmacht equipment ITTL, even compared to IOTL, where they made use of Kar98ks and MP40s pretty heavily in 1948 and 1949.
 
It should be noted that the South Africa arms embargo happened in 1977 which reinforced partial and voluntary embargoes set up in 1970 and 1964 by Security Council Resolutions.

For the UN to set up such an embargo against Israel in 1948 would require a very different set of circumstances that what actually existed in 1948.

I really don't see why or how an Israeli specific arms embargo is going to be passed by the General Assemly or Security Council in 1948. General Assembly resolutions, like 194, are not binding. In addition, the Arab states unanimously rejected that same resolution anyway since they were committed to complete victory and no compromise that would result in recognized state of Israel.

Unless the Arab states are willing to accept Israel and agree to a compromised end of the war, it is impossible to see why an arms embargo would be approved in 1948.

Of course, any compromise would probably need to include the millions of Jewish refugees who were now being forced to leave their Arab homes.

Resolution 194 clearly states that it applies not to refugees in general, but specifically refugees who wish to live at peace with their neighbors. This implies any such return must be accompanied by a negotiated peace acceptable to all.
 
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