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So here's another version of an alternate Isarel map I made a few years ago (made over the summer actually)

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Point of Divergence: Britain does not curtail Jewish migration into Palestine and instead encourages it with greater zeal than before. (This is part of a broader post-1806/1815 world where France was in the Central Powers instead of Germany, who ITTL allies with Russia and Britain)

In the aftermath of the First Great War, the British Empire inherited portions of the former Ottoman Empire that had fought in the Central Powers (along with France and Austria-Hungary). One of these territories was Palestine, a tiny patch of land that Christians, Jews, and Muslims hold sacred for countless millenia. The British government had some plans for Palestine, most notable was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which would provide a "national home" for the Jewish people, who for years have been coming to the region in droves. Driven by the Zionist call to establish a Jewish homeland in their ancient home, these settlers nevertheless drew tensions amongst the Arabs already living there. This culminated in several Arab revolts which were put down by the British government, and only led to the government's (with the German Empire's backing) encouragement of more Jewish migration to (hopefully) stabilize the situation.

With the rise of the fascist French government in 1933, Jewish immigration to Palestine increased even more, so that by the time war broke out once more in the continent inn 1939, the population was evenly split, with the Jews well on their way to becoming the majority by 1945 as more and more Jews fled the anti-semitic Nasis in Paris (this ensured that 2-3 million Jews were killed during this world's equivalent of the Holocaust). By the time the new United Nations decided on a course for partition in 1948, Jews had become a majority, ensuring they would get the lion's share of the territory. It was an agreement that the Arab powers of Egypt, Transjordan, and Syria were unwilling to ever accept.

For nine months, the Israelis held on, depsite overwhelming odds. However, bad judgements on the part of the Arab powers ensured that not only would the new State of Israel would grab not only all of Palestine, but in a blitzkreig movement, seize the Sinai peninsula, the Golan Heights, and even some of the areas east of the Jordan River. The War of Independence (which was an Arab defeat so large that they dubbed it an-Nakba aka "the Catastrophe") would lead to drastic changes to the Middle East, which are still being felt today. Though the issue of Islamist terrorism in the Sinai and the East Palestinian claims to all of the former mandate continue to surface, Israel's fortunes as one of the players shaping the Middle East remains as bright as ever.

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Notes
1) The title refers to Israel's national anthem Hatikvah
2) FDI is the Federal Directorate of Intelligence (this world's equivalent to the CIA). Thus, this map is made from an American point of view.
3) The Suez Canal was closed from 1948-1976, when the Camp David Accords established a demilitarized international zone supervised by the UN.
4) Lebanon was completely filled with Arab Christians and Italian settlers by the Duce (since Lebanon became an Italian mandate, which were kept due to Mussolini's smart decision not to team up with the Nasis until 1974). Hence, they never joined the Arab coalition against Israel, and now has become one of Israel's friends in the region by 2015.
5) One of the Germans who came to Palestine were the Frank family (yes, I mean the family of Anne Frank), who fled following the French invasion of Germany in 1940. They're still around to this day.
6) And yes, it was kind of inspired by AlternateHistory87 's own map of Israel

Description
So here's another version of an alternate Isarel map I made a few years ago (made over the summer actually)

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Point of Divergence: Britain does not curtail Jewish migration into Palestine and instead encourages it with greater zeal than before. (This is part of a broader post-1806/1815 world where France was in the Central Powers instead of Germany, who ITTL allies with Russia and Britain)

In the aftermath of the First Great War, the British Empire inherited portions of the former Ottoman Empire that had fought in the Central Powers (along with France and Austria-Hungary). One of these territories was Palestine, a tiny patch of land that Christians, Jews, and Muslims hold sacred for countless millenia. The British government had some plans for Palestine, most notable was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which would provide a "national home" for the Jewish people, who for years have been coming to the region in droves. Driven by the Zionist call to establish a Jewish homeland in their ancient home, these settlers nevertheless drew tensions amongst the Arabs already living there. This culminated in several Arab revolts which were put down by the British government, and only led to the government's (with the German Empire's backing) encouragement of more Jewish migration to (hopefully) stabilize the situation.

With the rise of the fascist French government in 1933, Jewish immigration to Palestine increased even more, so that by the time war broke out once more in the continent inn 1939, the population was evenly split, with the Jews well on their way to becoming the majority by 1945 as more and more Jews fled the anti-semitic Nasis in Paris (this ensured that 2-3 million Jews were killed during this world's equivalent of the Holocaust). By the time the new United Nations decided on a course for partition in 1948, Jews had become a majority, ensuring they would get the lion's share of the territory. It was an agreement that the Arab powers of Egypt, Transjordan, and Syria were unwilling to ever accept.

For nine months, the Israelis held on, depsite overwhelming odds. However, bad judgements on the part of the Arab powers ensured that not only would the new State of Israel would grab not only all of Palestine, but in a blitzkreig movement, seize the Sinai peninsula, the Golan Heights, and even some of the areas east of the Jordan River. The War of Independence (which was an Arab defeat so large that they dubbed it an-Nakba aka "the Catastrophe") would lead to drastic changes to the Middle East, which are still being felt today. Though the issue of Islamist terrorism in the Sinai and the East Palestinian claims to all of the former mandate continue to surface, Israel's fortunes as one of the players shaping the Middle East remains as bright as ever.

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Notes
1) The title refers to Israel's national anthem Hatikvah
2) FDI is the Federal Directorate of Intelligence (this world's equivalent to the CIA). Thus, this map is made from an American point of view.
3) The Suez Canal was closed from 1948-1976, when the Camp David Accords established a demilitarized international zone supervised by the UN.
4) Lebanon was completely filled with Arab Christians and Italian settlers by the Duce (since Lebanon became an Italian mandate, which were kept due to Mussolini's smart decision not to team up with the Nasis until 1974). Hence, they never joined the Arab coalition against Israel, and now has become one of Israel's friends in the region by 2015.
5) One of the Germans who came to Palestine were the Frank family (yes, I mean the family of Anne Frank), who fled following the French invasion of Germany in 1940. They're still around to this day.
6) And yes, it was kind of inspired by AlternateHistory87 's own map of Israel