What common enemy?One unknown: the Middle East. World War III would be starting right in the middle of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Would the Arabs and Zionists be willing to fight a common enemy like China's Nationalists and Communists were? And with Allied weapons production running at full tilt, the Israelis would find it much harder to get foreign arms.
British had already left,this TL means they are busy being shot at in Germany, USSR is too busy counting mushroom clouds to offer anything, and USA is occupied with dropping nukes to add to that total.
The last Czech arms shipments had already arrived, cut off by Stalin's order
They are on their own, and the Israelis were winning, both against Lebanon and the Egyptians
from the wiki
Israeli forces subsequently launched raids into the Nitzana area, and entered the Sinai Peninsula on 28 December. The IDF captured Umm Katef and Abu Ageila, and advanced north towards Al Arish, with the goal of encircling the entire Egyptian expeditionary force. Israeli forces pulled out of the Sinai on 2 January 1949 following joint British-American pressure and a British threat of military action. IDF forces regrouped at the border with the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces attacked Rafah the following day, and after several days of fighting, Egyptian forces in the Gaza Strip were surrounded. The Egyptians agreed to negotiate a ceasefire on 7 January, and the IDF subsequently pulled out of Gaza.
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