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Israel would sooner withdraw from the entire Sinai then give up the Golan. The Egyptians couldn't actually take the entire thing in time, so it would give Israel enough time to reinforce the Golan front, as a priority for almost any other front.

Wouldn't it led to a Bengali led Pakistan? There would be more Bengalis then people In west Pakistan, so we might have a later war in which West Pakistan tries to gain independence from the East.

As Starman said, without the Attrition War, Egypt might not have the experience and confidence to fight Israel as successfully as in 1973. Egypt had arguably won the Attrition war, so I don't see how avoiding it would help them. It's not like the lacked in men or material. Egypt might try to...

Why would they? They were part of the northern elites that mostly wanted to put the war in the past.

Scientists, engineers, doctors, city planners, you name it.. they all happily joined the nazis. If you could link your field of study in some way to racial studies or the conquest of the world? You would even get some funding.

Probably. Even if they still call themselves Greeks they would view their country and people as the continuation of the Christian byzantines and not the pagan ancient Greeks.

When I said border corrections in the Caucasus I meant minor ones in Kars and Batumi, not something huge, and even then the Russians could promise to hand it after the war but then to "forget" about this promise later on. Regarding Bulgaria you are right that they don't have much to do without...

He could decide to give them something else instead, and surly Libya and Rhodes are worth more than two ships.. What he promised to Russia is not a problem, its not the first time the British promised something that they didn't plan to keep. A Turkish strait is much preferable from British pov...

What if an early Italian entry cause the Ottomans to join the Entente? The entente can now offer them Rhodes and Libya, maybe border corrections in the Caucasus and Arabia. Thus the straits stay open. The ottomans choosing the Entente means that Bulgaria also join the Entente, and so does...

I guss that cheerleading would be more similar to soviet ballet (in the sense that you have male athletic dancers) , and would fill similar cultural niche. So disgraced male cheerleaders forced to join top secret CIA missions?

Thats true, but on the other hand there is also less equipment and foreign officers for the Jordanians and other arab armies. And Syria and Lebanon might still be french, so one less front against the Jewish side. I am not sure that non-jewish volunteers for the IDF were really a thing in 48...

Oh, I meant a war at the end of the British mandate (like in 1948), not wwii, sorry for not making it clear.

I believe that war was probably inevitable by the 30's. Britain probably leaves in the mid to late 50's, and by then the Jewish percentage is gona be around 40% or such. There is no reason to think that the war will end differently, as the POD doesn't change the total unpreparedness of arab...

There already was a mass immigration movement of jews by that time, and as the economic conditions in Palestine continues to improve while Poland slides more and more towards authoritarianism and antisemitism continues to rise in the Baltics, Germany and France, than you will see continued...

On the contrary, without the leadup to WWII the British are less likely to restrict immigration, as there is less need to try to placate arab public opinion. With a much greater pool to draw from, jews could achieve parity by the 50's.