Alt History: Israel loses in 1948

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Captain-Captain

The state of Israel is overpowered and ceases to exist. Things do not go well for recent Jewish immigrants nor for native born Jews either but the king of Jordan does makes a distinction and makes it very easy for them to leave.

<snort> In order to make it very easy for them to leave there has to be a place that would welcome a flood of penniless and stateless refugees. Most likely they'd end up in refugee camps shooting rockets at Jordan.

This is the carrot to the stick of staying there.

There will be no Palestinian problem, no unifying Israeli enemy on their to deal with. Without that, far less anti-American opinion in the middle east.

There's still a cold war. The United States still ends up backing people like the Shah of Iran, and the Saudi monarchy.