very quickly: One comment, based on the 36-39 Arab Revolt in Palestine, is that the first thing the Dominion of Israel faces in 43 is a massive uprising. The British needed a minimum of 25,000 men and three years to suppress it the first time. How many men are you willing to strip from the European and Pacific theatre's to suppress this? What of it's effects on Iraq, which had, 2 years prior, required suppressing?


The date is a lot earlier than this, Mr T. This uprising starts the day the first land gets expropriated for a bomber base and is a response to the Anglo-French strategic move. At this stage it has absolutely nothing to do with the future of Israel etc, it's part of the general war, it actually kicks off in about March-April 1941 and links to the Iraqi revolt in APOD. And it has direct German assistance including German 'special forces' and german formations (probably paratroops) in platoon strength operating in Israel and Transjordan, Lebanon and Syria. By 1942 it's crushed flat and by the end of that year the paid relocations will be over.

Allied troop numbers? maybe 150,000 involved in teh fighting overall, and they are all already in-theatre having crushed the Italians flat.

the creation os the Dominion is a CONSEQUENCE of the nazi Ally's (Mufti of jerusalem Al Husayni) Second Arab Revolt, which occurs years beforehand.

Cheers: mark