Peel commission Palestine partition plan implemented.

What if the english decided to set up the whole plan ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Peel_map_pd.png
(big map)

Or the Woodhead commission, with the smaller jewish state proposal ever made ( in plan C)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Commission

http://sites.google.com/site/misjud...938---la-comision-woodhead-sobre-la-particion

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What happen ?

Even more, I'm wondering the effect the absence of a sandwiched jewish state territorially cutting apart the arab world would make there.


Maybe a loose arab federation between, say, egypt, jordan, Lebanonand syria would be more successfull.
 
My immediate thoughts are the Haganah end up expanding the Jewish controlled areas - at least in the Galilee region. There were a lot of settlements in what is now Israel prior to the 'official' formation of the state of Israel in 1948.
The British controlled Negev area maybe becomes Bedouin-arabian, or possibly part of a greater Jordan - but this would cut off the strategically important town of Eilat - and in the very least upset the Kibbutzim in the area; leading to Haganah involvement. I could envisage the Haganah lasting longer, perhaps evolving into something like the PLO.

I'll give more thoughts on the matter. :)

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But there wasn"t as many settlement in 1938 than ten years later. By far.
This being said, even in 1947, according to this map it would not be ASB.

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Ah, I see what you're saying now. You're thinking of a Jewish state founding in 1938 using the plan described, rather founding later in 47-48.

I'd go with plan A, which also gives the Galil to the Jewish state, and makes the Negev Arab controlled. Most of the Israeli population live on the coastal strip from Ashkelon to Tel-Aviv anyhow. Although, earlier on, Israel was very much more agricultural orientated via Kibbutzim then it is now.

Plan C I think would result in the Jewish state wanting to expand into the British controlled areas at some point. The population would quickly outgrow a country that size.

The questions then arise into what becomes of the Negev and Westbank areas in the long run. In our timeline, the Westbank was part of Jordan until the six days war. Maybe in this reality, the Wesbank, Negev and perhaps Gaza are merged into a new Palestinian state. Gaza could, of course, end up as Egyptian territory.

A second problem lies with Jerusalem - which is sacred to not only Judaism, but also Islam and Christianity. Maybe Jerusalem becomes a separate entity like the Vatican?


How easy is a smaller Jewish nation to defend though? Unless this Israel somehow gets accepted by surrounding Arabian populations, I can see the same issues emerging - perhaps more so. This Israel's 'equivalent' occupied territories could be southern Lebanon, as well a parts of Syria (to protect the Galil-Elyon), and the northern portion of the Westbank (to protect Tel-Aviv). Their equivalent 6-days war becomes a Jerusalem crisis as Israeli troops close in on the city.
 
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