WI: Israel is created before WWII

Onyx

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Yep, Israel is created lets say 1918 if the British decide the Jews need there own country (But that was far fetched during that era).

Anyways, I can see a mass Jewish immigration, but what would happen to Israel during WWII? Would HItler (THE WILD AND CRAZY GUY!!!!) make an invasion on the country and well, start a god forsaken massacre? Or something else...
 
An invasion of Israel sounds likely, and having the Holocaust occur there instead of europe, does that means Hitler doesnt invade Poland?
 
Hitler's not going to invade Israel. In fact, if there's mass immigration of Jews from Germany to Israel, there's probably not even going to be a Holocaust.

The Jews were a present 'threat' in the sense that they were immediatebly available to blame. If they all live in Israel, then it sort of takes the bite out of things for der Fuhrer. There would likely still be a lot of violence against any remaining Jews, but with Israel there as an escape hatch, they probably would just be deported while some other group (Gypsies?) bears the brunt of Nazi racial ideology.
 
Hitler would probably wave good bye to them and forget about them. Probably deport those who don't leave(which won't be many).

As much manpower and industy they put into the Final Solution, Germany would probably be better off as far as the war goes. And Jews or not, Hitler's Germany has to go to war by 1940 at the latest.
 
Some of the Nazis had the idea of setting up a puppet Jewish state and raising SS legions from it, just as they did from other occupied countries.

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So let's say Israel is created in the aftermath of WWI and the Nazis, for whatever reason, breach the Suez barrier and enter the Levant.

This might actually happen.
 
Well assuming that hitler still decides to eradicate jews, I mean it would have been far more efficient for the Nazi's to simply deport jews to Spain or Switzerland or something, but in stead they concentrated on eradicating them, so it could be argued that hitler would attempt to eradicate the Jewish State. This would probably be disasterous for the Germans, as I recall any drive to the suez and the middle east in general would have been a logistical nightmare, probably it would turn into a vacuum for men and resources which would probably yeild little return and these forces and supplies would not be available somewhere else (i.e. Russia)
 
3 January 1919,
Faisal and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization sign the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement for Arab-Jewish cooperation, in which Faisal conditionally accepted the Balfour Declaration based on the fulfillment of British wartime promises of development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and on which subject he made the following statement:


"We Arabs... look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted yesterday by the Zionist Organization to the Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate and proper. We will do our best, in so far as we are concerned, to help them through; we will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home... I look forward, and my people with me look forward, to a future in which we will help you and you will help us, so that the countries in which we are mutually interested may once again take their places in the community of the civilized peoples of the world."
On 7 March 1920, Faisal was proclaimed King of Greater Syria by the Syrian National Congress government of Hashim al-Atassi. In April 1920, the San Remo conference gave France the mandate for Syria, which led to the battle of Maysalun on 24 July 1920. The French were victorious and Faisal was expelled from Syria. He went to live in the United Kingdom in August of that year.
So what whe need is No San Remo Conference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Remo_conference.
Britain to accept that It's Palestinian Mandate is only over the Jerusalem part of the below map. and then decide to establish a Independent nation in the territory.

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