Peel Israel in WW2

In 1937 the Peel Commission proposed a partition of Palestine between a Jewish State, Jordan, and a continued British mandate around Jerusalem (see below). Nobody wanted to see the Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini running an Arab Palestine, so the bits listed in the map below as "Arab State" were to go to Jordan. The Arabs of Palestine (or more specifically, their leadership) shot down the idea, but let's say the

What if Israel had been established in 1937 and involved itself in WW2? In the 1948 War, the Israelis had an initial 30,000 soldiers and by the end of the war had 117,500 soldiers. They'd likely serve in the Syrian, North African, East African, and Cretan Campaigns, I think.

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Large numbers did service in the Allied armies and it was a major supply base and production region for the allies AS IS.

For significant changes to the timeline, I would be looking at Jews now would have somewhere to run too when the doors were slammed shut on them. Plus having somewhere to send them might change the Final Solution. Many antisemites did not want to kill them, they just wanted them out. Also, the knowledge that a Jewish State would be looking for retribution after the war would be a significant check for some of the problems that the Germans had in Hungry for example.
 
Is this Jewish state still a British protectorate or an independant state. If the latter, it may not have the resources in 1937 to train and field large armies. In that case it would not send soldiers to distant theatres. It is more likely that it would absorb immigrants, licsence weapons manufacturing from Allied compnies and beome a major supply depot. The Jews of Europe would have somnewhere to flee so probably no Holocaust. However, the middle east theatre in WW2 maybecome more intense. Arab nationalism will be even more receptive to Nazi entreaties than in OTL. A battle with Vichy forces in Syria leading to the israelis annexing the Golan and southern lebanon south of the Litani perhaps. The big stumbling block to this TL is how to convince the British to implement the plan inthe face of Arab opposition. What changes the British imperialist calculation?
 
As has been stated above, a Jewish state established earlier provides a release valve for the Jewish population of Europe. Although the UK is still going to be wary about accepting large flows of people from a state they're not on good terms with. Perhaps some of the treaties that preceded WW2 could include provisions about Jewish migration from Germany to this Israel, with annual caps set by the UK and limits of property that can be transferred set by Germany. There's going to be more Arab agitation, but without the means to capitalize on that I don't know that the Axis would fare much better during the war. The UK might have to divert some more troops to garrison duty, but I don't see that breaking their capabilities.

Assuming everything goes basically as OTL did minus the presence of as many Jews in Europe then we'll be looking at an Israel that's much smaller than OTL, and one that's going to be bucking to get ahold of the Jerusalem area that the UK is administering. The conflict for that territory could be the trigger for an Israeli-Arab war ITTL. But there's also the possibility that the UK manages to hand the mandate off to some sort of UN body that allows access to all religions.

Long term I don't see this situation as really stable. There's going to be more Jews earlier on, and by the end of the war there's going to probably be as many Jews in Israel as there was OTL, meaning population pressure and conflict with the Arabs is going to be at basically the same level as OTL. Eventually, with decolonization, this is going to mean war. What that war will look like I don't know. Israel is going to be more prepared to fight as more Jews will be coming in earlier and the apparatus of the state will have been constructed beforehand instead of being assembled as the war for independence is being waged. The IDF will already be a thing by the time conflict rolls around, instead of being constructed out of disparate armed militias.
 
Not happening as Syria and Lebanon are French Mandates
In WW2 they are controlled by Vichy France an allly of Nazi Germany and so fair game for an allied attack. The only thing that kept that front stable was the overextended supply lines of both sides. That would change infavor of the allies with the Peel plan.
 
In WW2 they are controlled by Vichy France an allly of Nazi Germany and so fair game for an allied attack. The only thing that kept that front stable was the overextended supply lines of both sides. That would change infavor of the allies with the Peel plan.

The Free French would oppose Israeli annexation of parts of their colonies.
 
This Israel would have been part of the Allied nations from the start, and it would get right into the UN in the post-war. When something like NATO starts to form up, if something like the Cold War still happens, they're in it.

Is a Peel Israel likely to fall on the Soviet side of the post-war situation?
 
I'd imagine any Israeli forces are probably getting deployed in Italy after the invasion there, instead of northern France. Either way, expect a LOT of warcrimes on either side when they go up against SS units.
 
This Israel would have been part of the Allied nations from the start, and it would get right into the UN in the post-war. When something like NATO starts to form up, if something like the Cold War still happens, they're in it.

Is a Peel Israel likely to fall on the Soviet side of the post-war situation?

It'd be the same leadership as OTL Israel in charge here, more or less, so I don't see why they'd go pro-Soviet.

Israel may be run by Socialists, but they're still pretty committed to Democracy.
 
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