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After WWI, Poland pursued various schemes to acquire colonies—from demanding some ex-German colonies to trying to buy off Liberia and Brazil. Poland also pursued, after 1935, a policy of encouraging Jewish emigration to Palestine. Behind closed doors, Polish diplomats lobbied for Britain to take more immigrants, and for the Mandate to be expanded to the Suez Canal and the Transjordan. By 1939, the Polish Army was even training Jewish militia to set up a Jewish state for that purpose.

Would it be possible at all for Britain to wash its hands of the Mandate of Palestine and leave the headache of Jewish-Arab relations to Poland? To have the League of Nations assign the Mandate to Poland? For Poland, this would achieve the twin goals of acquiring a colony and off-loading its Jewish population.

Obviously, the tenuous nature of Polish independence until the Treaty of Riga is a big obstacle.

And how would Polski Izrael develop? Jewish immigration would be much greater than IOTL. Might there also be Polish immigration? Would this touch off a much earlier Arab-Israeli conflict? And, if WWII still happens, how does Polski Izrael fit in?
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