DaHound22
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If the Arab armies are rampaging at will through Tel Aviv, there will be very little the Americans can do other than threaten to nuke Cairo and Damascus.
The Arabs then respond by demanding an unlimited right of return, full citizenship, and new Knesset elections which effectively end Israel as a Jewish homeland. Possession is nine tenths of the law, they say.
In comparison, the Americans could well believe that a Versailles-style Israel is preferable, with the understanding that American "peacekeepers" will be in Israel for the long term.
Actually you make a really great point. Also I was thinking about it; maybe a Versailles-style treaty might make it easier to get Kahane the kind of power he'd need?
Say the Arabs force this treaty on Israel. That means that Americas strongest ally in a largely Soviet-allied area is rendered almost useless. Maybe to regain dominance in the region, America may get desperate enough to fund a Kahane coup that kicks the Arab inspectors out and give Israel a relative amount of power back? I mean America funding international coups is certainly within the realm of possibility as we seem to do it quite often