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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.
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