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Nope, not the optimal solution. IMO the optimal one presuming a post WWI PoD would have been a Levant not sliced up by Sykes and Picot with religious freedom, a habit of welcoming refugees, and perhaps a municipal/cultural autonomy option. I talked about that one already though.

That being said, a multi-national invasion with the stated intention of removing the Jews from the Palestine Mandate outright was a worse solution. Not least because it backfired outright in TTL.

So rather than a declaration of war, WI the Israeli DoI or the prospect of same was met with saber-rattling demands for a more comprehensive conference? The results in terms of territory/borders looks pretty much like this with what amounts to broad gated intersections at the two quadpoints until the planned giant viaducts/overpasses get built and surveying for a limited access highway to Jaffa to start immediately.

On a political level?
  • The Jewish state is free to set it's Law of Return in stone, establish Hebrew as the working administrative language, and so forth. However the civil, property, and voting rights of all Arabs on it's side of the border shall remain sacrosanct (this includes any who have moved but still own/lease property there).
  • The Arab state is for it's part free to bar or regulate any further immigration as it sees fit, however the civil/property/voting rights of Jews/'Zionists' already living there are also non-negotiable.
  • Jerusalem? The Head of State position is to be a triumvirate periodically selected by the senior local Muslim, Christian*, and Jewish clergy, with actual day-to-day governance handled by something as much a City Council as a National Legislature. Access to religious shrines there and elsewhere are mandated by law (indeed the major shrines might be exclaves of Jerusalem for legal purposes), however education in all languages (and there is a list) is to be run locally.

(*: Officially, St. Peter's, St. George's, et. al. have no say here. They have also been unofficially and firmly "asked" to keep out of it.)

Nobody is wholly happy, but nobody wants to start a war (or at least be seen as starting a war) over the matter.

How does things go locally, regionally, culturally, and economically in the short/medium/long term?
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