What if Lebanon and Syria (and the Antioch part of what is now Turkey) split up in 1919, along with Palestine, etc. Turkey is kicked out and fighting a war, Britain and France are broke because the US stopped funding them in 1918, so
Yiddish, Lithuanian, Russian/Ukranian/Belarussian, Polish, Hungarian, Rumanian, Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian/Slovenian, Czech/Slovak, Yemeni, Morroccan, and Iraqi Jews. Coptic, Armenian, Orthodox, and Maronite Christians, Druze, Sunni, Shiite, Alawite, and Yazidi Arabs. Alawites are now running Syria, Yazidis more or less worship Satan (I've got that wrong, I know, but it's what little I remember. If you are interested, google it and correct me. They are an ethnic group). Add in the secular socialists, the secular capitalists, and maybe some Kibbutznik communes and you have a really, really, fractured country.
Yiddish, Lithuanian, Russian/Ukranian/Belarussian, Polish, Hungarian, Rumanian, Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian/Slovenian, Czech/Slovak, Yemeni, Morroccan, and Iraqi Jews. Coptic, Armenian, Orthodox, and Maronite Christians, Druze, Sunni, Shiite, Alawite, and Yazidi Arabs. Alawites are now running Syria, Yazidis more or less worship Satan (I've got that wrong, I know, but it's what little I remember. If you are interested, google it and correct me. They are an ethnic group). Add in the secular socialists, the secular capitalists, and maybe some Kibbutznik communes and you have a really, really, fractured country.