The UN Rejects a Partition of Palestine in 1947

Quite a lot. The Czech Me-109s were IIRC the only fighters the Israelis had. Czech supplies were about 40% of Israel's arsenal by the end of the war. Again, IIRC, which I may not; but at least 20%, I'm sure.

The Isrealis also bought Spitfire LFIXes from the Czechs - who made them pay through the nose - and tried to buy the L290 (a rebuilt Junkers Ju 290).
 
The Czech arms deal started before the Communists gained complete power in Czechoslovakia in February 1948. And its motive (even after the take-over) was not a conspiracy by Stalin to help Israel--it was strictly commercial from the Czechoslovak government's viewpoint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_shipments_from_Czechoslovakia_to_Israel_1947–49 Still, Stalin could have stopped the sales if he wanted to (even before February--after all, the Communist Gottwald was Prime Minister and the pro-Communist Svoboda Minister of Defense).
 
I've got another question--would Britain do the same thing (just withdraw from Palestine and let the parties fight it out among themselves) in a scenario where France doesn't fall in WWII and where WWII thus ends early in an Allied victory?
No FoF leave GB as a superpower (likely no FoS or long NA war), they will be far more powerful and could have many more options.... its such a different world that I'm not sure you can comparable it.
 

CaliGuy

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'One' of the problems that the British had was stopping the influx of Jewish peoples from Europe without looking like absolute scumbags given the sympathy the Jewish peoples of Europe 'enjoyed' at the time.

Indeed it was a 'lose - lose' situation as far as Britain was concerned

Had the UN done as the OP suggests then this would give the British an internationally supported mandate and to that end greater freedom to stop and deport Jewish Migrants as well as greater freedom to prevent the build up of arms and equipment as well as greater freedom to act against the more militant factions either militarily or by having greater powers of arrest etc.
Would crushing armed Zionists actually be perceived favorably in the international community after the Holocaust, though?
 

CaliGuy

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No FoF leave GB as a superpower (likely no FoS or long NA war), they will be far more powerful and could have many more options.... its such a different world that I'm not sure you can comparable it.
Options such as forcibly disarming the Zionists in Palestine?
 

CaliGuy

Banned
Quite a lot. The Czech Me-109s were IIRC the only fighters the Israelis had. Czech supplies were about 40% of Israel's arsenal by the end of the war. Again, IIRC, which I may not; but at least 20%, I'm sure.

The Czech arms deal started before the Communists gained complete power in Czechoslovakia in February 1948. And its motive (even after the take-over) was not a conspiracy by Stalin to help Israel--it was strictly commercial from the Czechoslovak government's viewpoint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_shipments_from_Czechoslovakia_to_Israel_1947–49 Still, Stalin could have stopped the sales if he wanted to (even before February--after all, the Communist Gottwald was Prime Minister and the pro-Communist Svoboda Minister of Defense).

Thanks for this information, you guys! :D
 
Would crushing armed Zionists actually be perceived favorably in the international community after the Holocaust, though?

Well this is why an International Mandate would be required as OTL domestic and international condemnation of fighting the Jewish terrorists made HMG reluctant to continue to carry out the Palestine Mandate.

I do know people who served out in Palestine during this time in both the British Army and Palestine Police (British Paramilitary Police) - and despite the sympathy for the Jewish people's plight I easily got the impression that they had more sympathy for the Arabs (Palestinians whatever??) than the Jewish.

They would often having acted on tip offs etc discover weapon caches and wanted terrorists - at one place they knocked down a cook house in a Jewish village and dug down many feet in order to find a large cache of guns and ammunition buried below it.

Had the will of HMG been robust enough and the backing from the UN giving them the necessary mandate then I doubt that the modern state of Israel would exist today

However as you say there was a lot of Sympathy for the Jewish peoples both in Britain and in the International community (largely I think due to the guilt of them ignoring the plight of the Jewish people in Europe before the war, particulalrly those from Germany and Czechoslovakia with many thousands being turned away etc or refused permission to immigrate) so I cannot see this happening.
 
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