WI: Israel attempts East Prussia-style clearances in 1949

Disclaimer: Due to the extremely sensitive subject matter involved here, I wish to make clear that I in no way condone what the title suggests. This is an exercise like any other.

What PODs/leaders/forces are necessary to get the Israelis to consider forcibly expelling Palestinians from the pre-1967 areas of Israel that they (obviously) controlled as of the state's birth and establishment? What reaction would the rest of the world give? I can't imagine the West or the Soviets taking it too kindly as it would be incredibly destabilising. Would it even work, or would the Israelis risk turning every single Palestinian man, woman or child into a soldier determined to fight them at every turn and, ultimately, bring down the Israeli state?

Does the risk involved make it ASB? What if it did happen and then (butterflies) in a later *1967 War the Israelis occupy more territory? Would they then expel from there, or would that seem too much like the 'zionist empire building' we're told by some that the Israeli government is doing IOTL?

I know next to nothing about Israeli history beyond what everyone knows so would appreciate help here. What I can estimate is that this would create a far, far more dystopic middle east than OTL, which would really undermine the point of the exercise, which would be to stabilise the Israeli state by expelling anyone who wasn't Jewish. The more I think about the more ASB it sounds, but knowing Israeli politics there was surely some group calling for it.
 
Many nations might not care, this being immediately after the Holocaust. Of course, this could mean a much stronger Arab force, with more reasons to hate Israel...
One more thing to note- a lot of the Arabs pushed out weren't necessarily Muslim, but Christians or Druze. This could potentially lead to a lessening of Christian support for Israel- and given how the dispensationalist views of Hal Lindsey and others had yet to rise to prominence...we could see a different 1967 with stronger Arab armies and the US taking action after the Liberty's sinking....
 
Disclaimer: Due to the extremely sensitive subject matter involved here, I wish to make clear that I in no way condone what the title suggests. This is an exercise like any other.

What PODs/leaders/forces are necessary to get the Israelis to consider forcibly expelling Palestinians from the pre-1967 areas of Israel that they (obviously) controlled as of the state's birth and establishment? What reaction would the rest of the world give? I can't imagine the West or the Soviets taking it too kindly as it would be incredibly destabilising. Would it even work, or would the Israelis risk turning every single Palestinian man, woman or child into a soldier determined to fight them at every turn and, ultimately, bring down the Israeli state?

Does the risk involved make it ASB? What if it did happen and then (butterflies) in a later *1967 War the Israelis occupy more territory? Would they then expel from there, or would that seem too much like the 'zionist empire building' we're told by some that the Israeli government is doing IOTL?

I know next to nothing about Israeli history beyond what everyone knows so would appreciate help here. What I can estimate is that this would create a far, far more dystopic middle east than OTL, which would really undermine the point of the exercise, which would be to stabilise the Israeli state by expelling anyone who wasn't Jewish. The more I think about the more ASB it sounds, but knowing Israeli politics there was surely some group calling for it.

This is a sensitive subject indeed.....
One needs to remember the fact that 800.000 Jews were forced to flee for their lives, from the Arabic countries, in the aftermath of the creation of Israel without the world giving a s..t. These Jews were assimilated into Israeli society, and the same could have been done with the Arab refugees from Israel. Indeed, that could have been done even OTL, but the Arab countries chose not to.

So if it happens in the immediate aftermath of the War of Independence, I don't think there'd be too much of an international reaction. Later, though, it's a different story.
 
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You'd need to alter Zionist politics in the mandate era for the quickest and easiest route to a full on East Prussia or Bosnian civil war style campaign of explicit, consistently applied ethnic cleansing during the 1948 war.

Having the Irgun become much more powerful vis a vis the Haganah is a way to get a more aggressive and callous Zionist armed force which is not simply content to ethnically cleanse a few key areas (mostly OTL near Jerusalem) and bar Arabs who fled the fighting from returning (as in OTL), but would seek to apply what happened in, say, Deir Yassin to the whole of Arab Palestine.

Perhaps a more vigorous British repression of Zionist movements pre World War 2 leads to hardline Zionist groups like the Irgun and Lehi rising to ascendancy as the mainstream Haganah militant group is suppressed or broken up. If the OTL Arab revolt never happens (not quite sure how to get rid of that, though), perhaps it's the Jewish community of mandate Palestine which first rebels against the British and has it's mainstream leaders imprisoned or exiled. Say, then, the British establish some sort of Arab armed force or make concessions to the Arab populations to counterbalance what it sees as a restive Jewish population. A population which is more scared, and more radicalized than OTL.

By the time the UK finally withdraws. I don't think a Zionist movement with people like Jabotinsky or Stern at the helm would have any qualms with expelling or killing as much of the Arab population as they could, rather than opportunistically encouraging existent refugee movement and violently purging key areas as in OTL.

Now, I don't know why the Jews would rebel and the Arabs wouldn't in this TL sketch, and maybe somebody with a better knowledge of the history of the Zionist movement could find a more plausible way to get the hardliners calling the shots, but it's worth mentioning that there were groups who advocated the policies in the OP OTL.
 
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