TL: The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

This is an interesting ASB thread but you need to address something in detail.

What have you done with Ben Gurion and that generation of avowed Zionists who would have been a constant thorn in the side of the Hashemite monarchy? They were not going to settle for being part of a Hashemite superstate. How have you dealt with the Jewish underground groups who would have pursued terrorist actions against the monarchy.

Exiled? Executed? All of them? What about the next generation?

As a big fan of Israel and Jordan, I am interested in this thread but to avoid it becoming some Westernised fairytale of what the Middle East could have been, you need to explore how the Hashemite monarchy addressed Zionism.
 
This is an interesting ASB thread but you need to address something in detail.

What have you done with Ben Gurion and that generation of avowed Zionists who would have been a constant thorn in the side of the Hashemite monarchy? They were not going to settle for being part of a Hashemite superstate. How have you dealt with the Jewish underground groups who would have pursued terrorist actions against the monarchy.

Exiled? Executed? All of them? What about the next generation?

As a big fan of Israel and Jordan, I am interested in this thread but to avoid it becoming some Westernised fairytale of what the Middle East could have been, you need to explore how the Hashemite monarchy addressed Zionism.

Well first of all this is a traveloge not an in depth history of the Kingdom of Palestine.

Also the Zionists joined forces with the Palestinians when Egypt and Syria invaded. The have autonomy of their region. The more extreme members could have died in the fighting or tempered their beliefs so that the Jews could maintain their rights.
 

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Well first of all this is a traveloge not an in depth history of the Kingdom of Palestine.

Also the Zionists joined forces with the Palestinians when Egypt and Syria invaded. The have autonomy of their region. The more extreme members could have died in the fighting or tempered their beliefs so that the Jews could maintain their rights.

This is an interesting ASB thread but you need to address something in detail.

What have you done with Ben Gurion and that generation of avowed Zionists who would have been a constant thorn in the side of the Hashemite monarchy? They were not going to settle for being part of a Hashemite superstate. How have you dealt with the Jewish underground groups who would have pursued terrorist actions against the monarchy.

Exiled? Executed? All of them? What about the next generation?

As a big fan of Israel and Jordan, I am interested in this thread but to avoid it becoming some Westernised fairytale of what the Middle East could have been, you need to explore how the Hashemite monarchy addressed Zionism.

I don't think it's ASB personally; external factors have combined to provide a unifying force (ie. repulsing Egypt and Syria). Abdullah from all the research I did whilst out there genuinely seemed to be a King who wanted to find happy ground with the Jews, peaceful co-existance, whilst fending off Egypt and Syria. He also desperately wanted to be King of a larger Kingdom. Whilst the questions over the uber-Zionists are reasonable questions to ask (and I will get to that over the next 3 chapters; I want to do Beirut, then Jerusalem - with the history of bringing Transjordan and Palestine together - and then to Amman).

But this certainly isn't a rose-tinted what-if in the Middle East, even if I am an optimist at heart. The unifying force for the Arabs in their mutual hate of Israel is no longer particularly present, Cold War politics will lead to a more fractured Arab World, complete with several more wars as I have alluded to so far.

To be honest, the OTL history of Israel fending off the entire combined Arab forces with a rag tag army, managing to grow themselves despite an Arab-wide embargo, then actually capturing territory in the 1960s is more ASB in some ways I think. They then manage to run a military occupation zone in the West Bank, to the disadvantage of the OTL-Palestinian Arabs (to what level is arguable), right in the face of the Arab world, with little to no real kickback. Oh and at the same time, build up a nuclear weapons arsenal.
 
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