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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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