Sinai as a jewish state!

In 1903 there was a proposal for Jewish Settlement in and around El Arish

From Wikipedia

Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, proposed Arish as a Jewish homeland since neither the Sultan nor the Kaiser supported settlement in Palestine. In 1903, Joseph Chamberlain, the British colonial secretary, agreed to consider Arish, and Herzl commissioned the lawyer David Lloyd George a charter draft, but his application was turned down once an expedition, led by Leopold Kessler had returned and submitted a detailed report to Herzl, which outlined a proposal to divert some of the Nile waters to the area for the purpose of settlement.

The 1906 Boundary Agreement may go differently here as well if Sinai is the site of a Zionist scheme. Britain may get Rafah and Eilat perhaps.
Alternatively, they push harder to get Gaza and Beersheba, which later many Egyptian Nationalists would claim as their on the idea that the Negev is an extension of the Sinai.

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