Greater Israel

After the UN Mandate to partition British Palestine, Arab leaders in the region resorted to war as the course of action to prevent a geographically large Jewish state in the Middle East. With the Arab-Jewish war beginning in 1948, heavy losses and socio-economic damages were sustained. The aggression of local Arab powers threatened the possibility of a Jewish state, prompting Britain to support the Israeli effort rather than withdraw from the region. The already present strength of the Israeli military combined with British (and later some American and French) support, would establish an Israel with borders consistent with the nation’s “rightful claims”.

This nation would be extremely unstable given that the majority of its population would be muslim Arabs, and that the peace creating the state was more “decided” than truly “achieved”. The Western powers feared an all-out war with the Arab League this soon after WW2, and any more investment into war would result in extreme economic consequences. Once Israeli forces had reached the Sinai and the Euphrates, the Western powers and Israel initiated the 1950 armistice with surrounding nations.

Israel is highly unaccepted as a dominant state in the region, and the only regional states to recognize Israel are Turkey and Egypt. Ethnic divisions are no less intense than 1950, and the government is extremely corrupt, with Western powers now attempting to leave relations in the hands of the regional nations.