JFP: OK, I'll delete the last part until I can create the necessary PODs later on. Deal?
January 5, 1952: A far-right extremist assassinates Maurice Thorez in Paris.
OOC: I know take that's tend to happen a lot, but really, we're way pushing it in terms of assassinations already. And besides, an assassination like that by the right will only make the communists more popular.
OOC: I know take that's tend to happen a lot, but really, we're way pushing it in terms of assassinations already. And besides, an assassination like that by the right will only make the communists more popular.
Well, I don't think that can ever achieve quite the control the MG Patriots did (like rigging elections), so I figured a more realistic version would be an earlier Tea Party type deal, except a lot more violent.
That is slightly ASB, actually. The only options on the table are a Jewish state in all of Palestine, an Arab state in all of Palestine and dividing it into two.November 29, 1947: In a close vote (29-23 with 4 abstaining), the UN passes a Resolution calling for a single Palestinian Federation.
May 20, 1948: The British Mandate in Palestine expires, and the Levantine Federation takes its place. The new state is greeted by shells from extreme Zionists and Arabs, but it survives. For the moment.
That is slightly ASB, actually. The only options on the table are a Jewish state in all of Palestine, an Arab state in all of Palestine and dividing it into two.
A single federation for both these peoples is out of the question, and wouldn't survive at all(not just for the moment).