?No Gaza Strip?

The current Borders of Israel are based on the 1949 Cease Fire. Under the UN Cease Fire the Borders are not official but subject to negotiation in any peace treaty.
However The possibility of any real Change in the present Borders is very Slim.

At the Time of the Cease fire Israel was posed to Move into the Area of Gaza.

?WI the Cease Fire was delayed several days and Gaza had been occupied, before it went into affect.

?WI the cease fire was delayed several Months and the West bank was Occupied in 1949?
 
It would be hard to have the conflict last much longer, because Britain was worried that any more fighting would make the monarchies in Egypt and Jordan too weak to protect British economic interests in those countries. Towards the end of December 1948 Israel was pretty worried that if they kept advancing into the Sinai the British were going to intervene in the conflict. Which is why they didn't go ahead and take El Arish and then Gaza in the first place back in late December/early January 1949.

If the aim is just to have Israel own Gaza that could happen. The Israelis were at first insisting that the armistice line be at the pre WW1 international boundary between Britain and the Ottoman Empire and the Egyptian delegation considered agreeing but King Farouk said no and eventually the compromise solution was made. So all you need to do is have King Farouk agree and Israel would own Gaza.

Sorry, I can't help you with the WB stuff you'll have to have someone else cover that.

here are some sources i found from Googling:

http://books.google.com/books?id=CC...&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=operation horev&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=zA...ge&q=Israel–Egypt Armistice Agreement&f=false
 
Israel taking Gaza and the West Bank solves their Palestinian problem. It doesn't solve "the Palestinian Problem" at large, because there's still quite a few Arabs who get displaced, but the primary issue was that Israel didn't assimilate the 1967 annexations like they did the Arabs originally within the Green Line. Israel is currently 15% Arab, with Arab citizens having (mostly) full rights, though they are a disadvantaged minority. Israel seizing Gaza and the West Bank in '49 also means that there's a lot more Arabs - almost have the country being non-Jewish (both Muslim and a significant number of Christians). I do wonder the ramifications of that.
 
A larger Israel ultimately means a differently distributed and rather larger Palestinian refugee problem. Israel capturing the entire WB seems unlikely because the Legion was one of the few Arab armies that did a half-decent job. If it did the *6 day war would be rather different. While Israel will never be defensible as such, the topographical difference is real--there's a reason all the settlements Israel wants to keep are on hilltops. Israel's water concerns (a major factor in 1967) would also be different because the WB has access to a aquifer (a sticking point in OTL, as Israeli water usage is substantially higher then Palestinian water usage even with stringent conservation).
 
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