Alternate succession of events:
1 Pelatine retains a more stable, economic and politically active jewish minority in Ottoman Palestine, which reaches aprox 25% of the population by 1800 (Jaffa or Acre remain a Salonika-like jewish city, for exemple )
2 Minor migrations pre-1880 (Damascus affair, Perushim) and decreasing arab population (Jews had moved to the coastal cities before Galilee earthquakes)
3 Palestinian jews decide to back Muhammad Ali during egyptian conquest, and after the 1840 Oriental Crisis the Powers agree with Egypt retaining Palestine. More loyal jewish immigration and investment are encouraged
4 Following the assassination of Alexander III, there's big pressure from Zionist across Europe for accepting more jews, a mini-war is fought in Palestine between jews and Arabs. The memory of the recent massacres of Lebanese Christians helps the Jews to gain sympathy for their cause
5 Egyptian rule goes into chaos after Urabi's coup. British intervention in Egypt also results in the establishment of a Protectorate of Jewish Palestine (Britons are lobbied by influential British and European Jewry)
6. Population exchange: Ottoman jews flee to Palestinian haven, while arab inhabitants are expeled (yes, it's inevitable, but in this TL it happens at minor scale)
I know that the whole idea sounds a little ASBish....but think about the fact that OTL's Israel's History is always far more ASbish!!
1 Pelatine retains a more stable, economic and politically active jewish minority in Ottoman Palestine, which reaches aprox 25% of the population by 1800 (Jaffa or Acre remain a Salonika-like jewish city, for exemple )
2 Minor migrations pre-1880 (Damascus affair, Perushim) and decreasing arab population (Jews had moved to the coastal cities before Galilee earthquakes)
3 Palestinian jews decide to back Muhammad Ali during egyptian conquest, and after the 1840 Oriental Crisis the Powers agree with Egypt retaining Palestine. More loyal jewish immigration and investment are encouraged
4 Following the assassination of Alexander III, there's big pressure from Zionist across Europe for accepting more jews, a mini-war is fought in Palestine between jews and Arabs. The memory of the recent massacres of Lebanese Christians helps the Jews to gain sympathy for their cause
5 Egyptian rule goes into chaos after Urabi's coup. British intervention in Egypt also results in the establishment of a Protectorate of Jewish Palestine (Britons are lobbied by influential British and European Jewry)
6. Population exchange: Ottoman jews flee to Palestinian haven, while arab inhabitants are expeled (yes, it's inevitable, but in this TL it happens at minor scale)
I know that the whole idea sounds a little ASBish....but think about the fact that OTL's Israel's History is always far more ASbish!!