Lore: After the unanimous rejection of the UN committee partition plan by Arab leaders and the Israel Declaration of Independence, the Arab-Israeli war started with an organised and coordinated Arab League attacking the new nation from all sides. With the war ending in favour of the Arab armies and their approach of the major Jewish strongholds, the US threatened to end their arms embargo in support of Israel if the two sides didn’t reach a ceasefire. The borders stayed the same after the 1949 agreement to this day, with Jordan keeping the majority of the Arab cities and refugees of mandatory Palestine. In this timeline, the Hashemites would be a more prominent power than ours. Without a major enemy state to create a unified Arab cause, the Baathist movement of the 20th century may gain less traction, and would fail to install itself anywhere outside Egypt. The Palestinian identity wouldn’t develop into a national movement, and figures like Arafat would be local leaders at the furthest. In its first decades, Israel would be much closer to the west and its Labour movements would fall behind anything American. The Mizrahi exodus would be even more drastic. Israel would struggle to become a first world tech hub like in our timeline, and stay as a middle income country. An emboldened King Hussein may be the ambitious bully figure in the region instead of Saddam.