Challenge: Prolong British control of the Palestinian mandate

Oil is discovered in Gulf region under british control. Control of Suez becomes important in securing it's flow.
 
Weimar Republic survives, while the Nazis slowly fade into irrelevance after a peak in 1933. Zionism is a small movement, though the overwhelming majority of Jews would rather stay in Germany or Poland or France.

Palestine gains its independence during the delayed decolonization process.
 

Cook

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Simple. Have the Brits not issue the Balfur Declaration.

The Balfour Declaration was issued during World War One when Britain desperately needed international financing and the support of Rothschild. Britain received a mandate to govern Palestine during the Paris Peace talks after the war. Without one they may not have had the other.

Without the Balfour Declaration the Palestine Mandate would have remained part of Trans-Jordan which became independent earlier.
 
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Cook

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These were never intended to be permanent colonies; they were territories mandated by the League of Nations to France and Britain for them to prepare for independence.
 

Cook

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British retain control of these regions and Suez is seen as a vital link in securing the flow to Britain

Aktarian,

The Suez Canal was seen as a vital maritime link to both India and the Arabian Oil Wells and those of Persia. And had been for quite a while.

That does not constitute a change.
 
Aktarian,

The Suez Canal was seen as a vital maritime link to both India and the Arabian Oil Wells and those of Persia. And had been for quite a while.

That does not constitute a change.

The difference is that they actually keep control of it. And Palestine as a buffer
 
The difference is that they actually keep control of it. And Palestine as a buffer

Except the British lost Palestine before they lost the Suez and lost both after oil was discovered and found to be profitable by the British. So........
 
As seen above. Prolong the control to sometime in the early 50's.

1. No Balfour Declaration would be a start.

2. No division of Palestine into two (preferably with 1920 borders), and allow Faisal to be Emir of Palestine. Maybe even setting up a Westminster-style parliamentary democracy, adapted to Palestinian conditions.

3. Get the Ashkenazim and the Palestinians (here including the Christians, Muslims, Druze, and Sephardim) on the same side, working together. Difficult but possible.

4. Enact major land reform so that everyone has some form of property/real estate and actually hae a clear economic programme for Palestine, including granting Imperial preference to Palestinian goods.

All those would be a good start, IMO.
 
Surely the most simple is the following:

No WWII. Weimar dosen't collapse, no Hitler. If USSR declares War it won't be anywhere near as anti-semetic. No Holocaust, so large Jewish populations remain in Europe and the driving force for the creation of an independent Jewish State in Palestine is greatly reduced. The Empire crumbles through the 50s-80s and Palestine goes independent in around 1970.
 
By 1948 when the Mandate expired, Britian was not interested in renewing it.
If they had requested it - The UN would have happily renewed it for another 10 or 20 years.

So what this need is a POD to keep the British wanting to remain involved in the Mideast.
 

Faeelin

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No WWII. Weimar dosen't collapse, no Hitler. If USSR declares War it won't be anywhere near as anti-semetic. No Holocaust, so large Jewish populations remain in Europe and the driving force for the creation of an independent Jewish State in Palestine is greatly reduced. The Empire crumbles through the 50s-80s and Palestine goes independent in around 1970.

I could see this going the other way, though. Antisemitism in Europe means Jews still want to leave, but there are far, far more of them.
 
I could see this going the other way, though. Antisemitism in Europe means Jews still want to leave, but there are far, far more of them.

Thing is, Zionism wasn't big among the mainstream populations. If more leave, they'll prefer to go to America. Zionists could get up to about 30-40% of the population of Palestine, but that'd be through buying property and under british rule.
 
Would Western countries allow massive immigration of Jewish populations? I imagine the OTL level of Jewish migration was pretty controversial in the US and I can only imagine it would be more so if there was no Holocaust.

Certainly I do not see the White Dominions relaxing things too much either, with no WW2 to make continued mass non Anglo immigration a positive aim.
 
Zionism remains a small extremist movement among the Jewish population which most remain in mainland Europe due to the Nazis not gaining momentum and taking power in Germany. There is still a fairly substantial Jewish migration to the British mandate in Palestine but they remain a small, sparsely dispersed minority in a land that is mainly inhabitated by the Palestinian Arabs. Transjordan and Palestine are combined to form one large federation under king Faisal. The discovery of oil in the region keeps the British occupied in the area while cultivating a nice friendship with the local monarchy and helps train the Palestinians to govern themselves and hopefully if things don't come out too badly, the Kingdom of Jordan can become a fully independent and well developed nation.
 
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