An American Mandate in Palestine would be like interesting.
Woodrow Wilson volunteers to occupy Palestine as a neutral party in the region (The United States doesn't have any colonies in Africa). The Americans maintain a Marine detachment headquartered in Jerusalem and maybe the US Navy maintains a Mediterranean squadron to make regular port visits.
American Jews could move to Palestine and establish their own American style Kibbutz. Evangelists in the twenties would support an independent Palestine seeing it as a sign of end of days.
Things would really get interesting if the Italians invade Libya kicking off the North African campaign. Would the Italians go out of their way to avoid an incident with the neutral Americans? what would the Germans and Vichy French do?
Corrected an "auto-correct" mistake: Not having broader interests of significance in the wider Muslim world, the US mandate administration might give carte blanche support to the Zionists. Maybe George Patton needs to command some cavalry to
Defeat some Arab insurgents.
On the other hand, the US might seek to limit Jewish immigration (not shut it off entirely) to the mandate, to keep peace and quiet with the Arab population, and the participants in "the inquiry" the us study of postwar problems noted the opposition of Christians and Muslims in the region to a Jewish state.
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