Points of Divergence : Israel

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• Jewish Egypt (instead of Exodus)
• WI: A united Canaan
• Canaanites defeat Hebrews
• WI Gideon proclaimed king ?
• Two Jewish states
• Challenge: Iron Age Jewish empire
• No fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and no fall of Kingdom of Judah
• Plausbility check: A feasible "Palestine Canal" ?
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• Jewish Revolt in ca 30 AD
• Jewish state survives (1)
• Jewish state survives (2)
• Jewish state survives (3)
• Jewish state survives (4)
• Jewish state survives (5)
• Earlier Jewish Revolt
• No Jewish Revolt
• No Jewish Diaspora
• Emperor Hadrian decides to destroy Jewish identity differently
• Julian rebuilds the Jewish Temple (1)
• Julian rebuilds the Jewish Temple (2)
• WI: Jewish victory in the Kitos war ?
• Challenge: Make Jewish culture the most dominant in the Mediterranean
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• An earlier Israel under the Ottoman Empire (1)
• An earlier Israel under the Ottoman Empire (2)
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• Israel not established (1)
• Israel not established (2)
• Israel not established (3)
• Ideal Sevres (for everyone but Turkey)
• A Saner Sykes-Picot
• WI population movements post-Balfour
• WI Sir Isaac Isaacs successfully derails the Jewish State project ?
• WI: British didn't restrict Jewish entry to Eretz Israel
• WI there was no 1936 Arab Revolt in Palestine ?
• Effect of an early Israel on Nazi strategy & WWII
• Remapping the Levant
• Nazi Israel
• The Middle East and Axis puppet regimes
• Challenge: Make a binational Palestine by the end of WWII
• Jewish BDE WI
• Jewish volunteer legion in Palestine 1947/48
• WI: Different partition of Palestine
• Secular Levantine state established in 1948
• Challenge: Prolong British control of the Palestinian mandate
• Plausibility check: How many wars would happen in Middle East if Israel never existed ?
• Arab countries respect UN decision
• WI: 1949 - Israel and Palestine
• A happy Israel ?
• A peaceful Middle East
• WI the Arabs win the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
• WI Palestinian Arabs beat Israel during war of independence
• Israel defeated
• WI the Palestinians never left ?
• Total Israeli victory in War of Independence
• WI Jordan renamed to Palestine
• Challenge: A Secular democratic Palestine
• Israel wank
• Greater Israel
• Largest possible Israel in same location
• Plausibility check: Jewish civil war in June 1948 after ALTALENA affair
• Israeli Civil War
• Challenge: A much greater migration of American Jewish to Israel
• The House of Rothschild as the Israeli monarchy ?
• Plausibility check: Zionist terrorists
• The Israeli assassination of Konrad Adenauer
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• Challenge: Make the Arab nations win the the wars with Israel
• WI Israel is defeated and ceases to exist in the 1960s-1980s ?
• Result of Israeli defeat in various wars
• Israeli School for Super-smart soldiers
• Israeli Cheiftain tanks (1)
• Israeli Cheiftain tanks (2)
• Israeli Cheiftain tanks (3)
• An Israeli dictatorship ?
• Israeli Empire
• Greater Israeli adventurism and ethnic homelands
• Israeli strike on Pakistan's nuclear program
• Plausibility check: Israeli Panther tanks ?
• Indigenous Israeli tanks by 1973
• Challenge: Arab Israeli Settlement by 1973
• Decisive Israeli victory in Yom Kippur War
• Let say the Israeli had the F-14 Yom Kippur war
• The Israeli Capture of Damascus, 1973
• 1973 Arab Israeli war alternate scenario
• Israeli Palestinian settlement in the late 1970s
• WI the Sinai was still in Israeli hands ? (1)
• WI the Sinai was still in Israeli hands ? (2)
• WI the Sinai was still in Israeli hands ? (3)
• Israeli Suez Canal
• 1982: No Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
• Shimon Peres elected Israeli PM
• Peres wins the 1996 Israeli elections (1)
• Peres wins the 1996 Israeli elections (2)
• French peacekeepers vs. the Israeli Air Force in Lebanon
• WI: Some Israeli soldier kills Ahmadinejad during his visit to Lebanon in 2010 ?
• WI: Israel annexed settlements after Palestinian UN bid
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See also Alternate Israels.

• Most likely alternate Israel
• Some other unspecified place (1)
• Some other unspecified place (2)
• Some other unspecified place (3)
• Challenge: Pin the Zion on the Eurasia
• Israel in more than one place (1)
• Israel in more than one place (2)
• Israel in more than one place (3)
• Challenge: European Israel
• Somewhere in Europe
• Salonika (1)
• Salonika (2)
• Kaliningrad
• Germany (1)
• Germany (2)
• Germany (3)
• Germany (4)
• Bavaria
• East Prussia (1)
• East Prussia (2)
• Bukovina
• Yemen
• Cyprus
• USA
• The western US (1)
• The western US (2)
• the Wild West
• Sasketchewan
• Alaska (1)
• Alaska (2)
• Belize
• South America
• Somewhere in the New World (1)
• Somewhere in the New World (2)
• Kenya
• Rhodesia
• Italian East Africa
• Madagascar
• Western Sahara
• a Jewish SSR
• Manchuria
• Australia
• Challenge: More than one alternate Israel created during the 20th century

• Relations between European Zionists and local Jewish population ?
• DBWI: Make Israel survive
• DBWI: No Israeli Economic Collaps in 1982
• What would a Jewish "homeland" in Africa be called ?
• Jewish/Israeli ATLs
• Logical Middle east borders
• DBWI: Massive Anti-Jewish Protests in Madagascar
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• WI: No Sinai
• The Sinai Island
• ISOTing the Israelites to New Zealand
• WI: Israel ISOT to 1914
• WI: Gaza and the West Bank ISOT to 1914
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