AHC: Communist Israel

Wasn't Israel a communist state till the mid 70s i think ?

No. The leading party, Mapai, was Socialist but not Communist--it had been a member of the Second, not Third International. Mapam is a different story--it started off as Marxist-Leninist-Zionist--but (1) it was never the largest party, and (2) its most pro-Soviet members eventually split off to join the Communist party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapam
 
It must be stated that the left Zionists were never Marxist. Marxism by definition is incompatible with Zionism, an ideology based on a form of nationalism. This is why when Zionism was becoming popular among the diaspora in the 20's, many Marxist jews, especially in the Soviet Union, led anti-zionist campaigns in an attempt to bring Jews to Marxism and away from Zionism. Marxism and Zionism were at this point fighting an ideological battle for support from the diaspora, with Zionism winning out by the 30's. A great great ancestor of mine, Phillip Krantz, was head of a Yiddish Anti-zionist group in New York around this time, that had split from the Socialist Labor Party and was attempting to do ideological battle with the Zionist groups at the time.
 
It must be stated that the left Zionists were never Marxist. Marxism by definition is incompatible with Zionism, an ideology based on a form of nationalism. This is why when Zionism was becoming popular among the diaspora in the 20's, many Marxist jews, especially in the Soviet Union, led anti-zionist campaigns in an attempt to bring Jews to Marxism and away from Zionism. Marxism and Zionism were at this point fighting an ideological battle for support from the diaspora, with Zionism winning out by the 30's. A great great ancestor of mine, Phillip Krantz, was head of a Yiddish Anti-zionist group in New York around this time, that had split from the Socialist Labor Party and was attempting to do ideological battle with the Zionist groups at the time.

So, you need a faction of Marxism that loses the Universality of mainstream Marxism...

OR a Israel with plans and hopes of bringing "exporting" Marxism to the Palestinians...

The OP did not require a happy Marxist Israel after all...:eek:
 
Well, that faction did exist historically. When Stalin decided to pragmatically give support to Israel in '48, the Israeli communist party was split in two, with the mostly jewish members forming a communist party based on "the jewish peoples right to self-determination" and following the moscow party line. The mostly arab membership then broke off and formed an explicitly anti-zionist communist party, Maki, which is the one that is still alive to this day.
 
Your mission is to make Israel a communist state with a PoD before the Yom Kippur War. It's up to you how you handle this. Good luck :D

You'd probably need a different Israel, TBH. The Left Zionists, although a fairly powerful force in the pre-Begin days(especially early on), were not full-on Marxist, by and large.

But, I can say that a Communist Israel might perhaps be a happier one, as long as it avoids the nastiness of Stalinism.....
 
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