Palestine
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[edit] Palestine in "Before the Beginning"
Palestine was the only country not to convert to Judaism in the year after the time-viewer revealed the Jews were God's chosen people.
[edit] Palestine in The Man With the Iron Heart
Britain fiercely protected its mandate in Palestine, and was fairly alarmed by the substantial number of Jewish refugees coming out of Europe after World War II, especially as the idea of turning Palestine into a Jewish homeland took hold.
Shmuel Birnbaum announced plans to emigrate to Palestine after Reinhard Heydrich was killed in 1947.
[edit] Palestine in "Next Year in Jerusalem"
After roughly a century, the State of Israel was defeated by its neighbors, and Palestine fell under Arab domination again. Decades later, a group of Second Irgun members snuck into Palestine and began a series of terrorist attacks in the hope of inspiring the millions of Jews still in the region to rise up and rebuild Israel. After a series of killings, concluding the murder of community leader Chaim Perelman, the group fled, having completely failed.
[edit] Palestine in Southern Victory
Palestine was one of the areas under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, one of the victors of the Great War. It was perceived as a sleepy little backwater.
[edit] Palestine in The Two Georges
Palestine was one of the areas under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, a British Protectorate. It was perceived as a sleepy little backwater, with a British resident watching over the Turkish governor to make sure it would remain so.
[edit] Palestine in Worldwar
The people of Palestine, both Jews and Arabs, resented British imperial rule and rebelled when the Race's Conquest Fleet invaded. Without public support, British forces were unable to defend the Mandate, and under the Peace of Cairo it was ceded to the Race's Empire.
The Jews were content to live under the Race's benevolent rule, especially when they realized it was better than what their co-religionists were experiencing in Britain. Arabs were far more resistant to the Race, and frequently rebelled.
During the battle for Palestine, Moishe Russie was sent to Palestine by the British to appeal to anti-British Jewish rebels to lay down their arms by contrasting Britain's then-relatively benevolent treatment of Jews to Germany's horrific persecution, and also to describe the injustices which had led him to denounce the Race in Poland. This mission failed, and, despite his claims of preferring Britain to the Race, he remained with his family in Race-ruled Jerusalem, periodically traveling to Cairo to consult with Atvar.
