The Palestinian Revolt of 1936 to 1939 was devastating for Palestinian political and community leadership and devolved into an internal hunt for collaborators as much as fighting of Jews and the British.
The extent and length of the revolt also resulted in a British-Zionist alliance convenience to put down the revolt, with the British allowing Night Squads and other quasi-military formations to gain experience.
To an extent, the Palestinians won a victory because the British government did want to reduce their popular outrage by setting tight limits on Jewish settlement from mid-1939, in what is known as "the White Paper".
Let's say Palestinian political operators and organizations go to ground and give up the revolt earlier, before 1936 is out, and they limit internecine killing and accusation of collaboration.
What is the comparative strength of the Jewish Yishuv and Palestinian Arab community by 1947?
Is the Jewish community more advantaged over the Arab Muslim and Christian community compared with OTL because of higher rates of immigration in the few months before WWII and the war years themselves?
Or is the Jewish community weaker in terms of military experience even if a bit larger in numbers?
Would Palestinians be defeated as badly as OTL or worse by a somewhat larger Jewish community?
Or would the Palestinians be able to put up a stronger fight and hold land on their own terms with more surviving leadership and perhaps more men with British Army or Police or administrative experience?
The extent and length of the revolt also resulted in a British-Zionist alliance convenience to put down the revolt, with the British allowing Night Squads and other quasi-military formations to gain experience.
To an extent, the Palestinians won a victory because the British government did want to reduce their popular outrage by setting tight limits on Jewish settlement from mid-1939, in what is known as "the White Paper".
Let's say Palestinian political operators and organizations go to ground and give up the revolt earlier, before 1936 is out, and they limit internecine killing and accusation of collaboration.
What is the comparative strength of the Jewish Yishuv and Palestinian Arab community by 1947?
Is the Jewish community more advantaged over the Arab Muslim and Christian community compared with OTL because of higher rates of immigration in the few months before WWII and the war years themselves?
Or is the Jewish community weaker in terms of military experience even if a bit larger in numbers?
Would Palestinians be defeated as badly as OTL or worse by a somewhat larger Jewish community?
Or would the Palestinians be able to put up a stronger fight and hold land on their own terms with more surviving leadership and perhaps more men with British Army or Police or administrative experience?