What if Britain had let all the Jews of Europe into Israel in the 30s?

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Lebanon was thrown in because he showed a map of Ancient Israel, and haider thought he was also going to drag the Lebanese into it. Technically, they only wanted South Lebanon, but we all know how that turned out, didn't it? :p

Found this online
When the French Mandate government conducted the 1932 census, it enumerated 861,399 Lebanese, including those living abroad, most of whom were identified as Christians. The distribution of parliamentary seats among the confessions was based on the findings of the 1932 census; the ratio of six Christians to five Muslims, including Druzes, has been retained.

And there has been no real Census since then.

As upthread, the Area was all administered as Syria until 1888, excepting the area around Jerusalem, that was removed from Syrian control before that

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Historically, the areas of Tyre and north of that, was never considered part of Israel, while the areas south of Acre, was. The main dividing line, was the River Jordan and Dead Sea, though ancient Israel did have areas across the Jordan
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for areas of old claims
 
Found this online
When the French Mandate government conducted the 1932 census, it enumerated 861,399 Lebanese, including those living abroad, most of whom were identified as Christians. The distribution of parliamentary seats among the confessions was based on the findings of the 1932 census; the ratio of six Christians to five Muslims, including Druzes, has been retained.

And there has been no real Census since then.

As upthread, the Area was all administered as Syria until 1888, excepting the area around Jerusalem, that was removed from Syrian control before that

487px-Ottoman_levant.png


Historically, the areas of Tyre and north of that, was never considered part of Israel, while the areas south of Acre, was. The main dividing line, was the River Jordan and Dead Sea, though ancient Israel did have areas across the Jordan
470px-Hasmonean_kingdom.jpg
for areas of old claims
 
As upthread, the Area was all administered as Syria until 1888, excepting the area around Jerusalem, that was removed from Syrian control before that

Interesting and it is not ancient history this is still in use today if you hear Assad from Syria when he states "Southern Syria", he is talking of the area that is Syria, Jordan, Israel, West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon. Until about 1920 almost all of the Muslim and many Christians in this region considered themselves "Southern Syrians." If you read the speeches of Palestinian leaders in this era, you will see that they used this term to describe themselves.
 
Interesting and it is not ancient history this is still in use today if you hear Assad from Syria when he states "Southern Syria", he is talking of the area that is Syria, Jordan, Israel, West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon. Until about 1920 almost all of the Muslim and many Christians in this region considered themselves "Southern Syrians." If you read the speeches of Palestinian leaders in this era, you will see that they used this term to describe themselves.
From 1803 Ottoman Map of Eyalets, the administrative areas before the late 19thC reforms to Vilayets
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and European Map from 1740 showing the Ottoman Empire
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Many European Jews wanted to move to Israel when Hitler rose to power, but to appease the local Arabs, the Brits didn’t allow many to move.

What if the Brits had allowed it? How would 9 million Jewish migrants in the 1930s change things?

My guess is that there would be a larger Israel with a smaller Arab population.

Many ? Yes but still a small minority. Most Jews were assimilated and wanted to keep living in their birthplace. Most of those persecuted who felt compelled to leave their country to a safer place did not want to go to Palestine but preferred Western Europe and America.
 
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