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Recent content by Jackson Lennock

  1. J

    WI: Less Destructive Mt Lebanon Famine

    When I posted this hypothetical, I had in mind having WWI otherwise play out as it historically did. So factoring that in, the Young Turks are going to behave like the Young Turks.
  2. J

    WI: Less Destructive Mt Lebanon Famine

    During WWI OTL, Mt Lebanon was hit by a famine. It's causes were due to the war principally, as Jamal Pasha blockaded Mt Lebanon from the rest of Syria in response to the allied blockade of the Ottoman Empire as a whole and because the war was a good opportunity to eliminate a Christian...
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    WI: Egyptian North Sudan, North Eritrea, and Gaza

    Thinking about it a bit more, I thought of three things. First, prior to the independence of South Sudan - Sudan was only 40% Arab! That perhaps explains a lot about why Sudan on the whole over time pivoted away from Union with Egypt. Second, it seems the Darfur issue didn't really pop up...
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    WI: Egyptian North Sudan, North Eritrea, and Gaza

    Interesting point. I figured the cultural closeness to Egypt (same language and religion) would allow for their being smoothly brought into Egypt. This could especially be the case given that this was the period in which Pan-Arabism was strongest. It seems that around ~1954 Sudanese opinion...
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    WI: Egyptian North Sudan, North Eritrea, and Gaza

    What if a Greater Egypt had emerged in the post-WW2 period? In the negotiations for Britain to exit Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Britain favored partition of the colony with the Arab Muslim North (today's Sudan) going to Egypt and the Nilotic and mixed Christian-and-Animist South (today's South...
  6. J

    Hong Kong lease is 199 years long?

    I recall reading somewhere that the Chinese didn't care that much about Hong Kong until Thatcher opened her mouth about the Opium Wars not being a big deal. If anything, China liked that Hong Kong provided a source of foreign currency.
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    Hong Kong lease is 199 years long?

    Portugal didn't have to return Macau at all, but they still caved. Maybe Britain could negotiate an independent Hong Kong instead.
  8. J

    Rough Basis for an Israeli-Jordanian Treaty under Abdullah

    During the negotiations between Israel and Jordan, a few principles came up. Here's some rough ideas for an Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty. Israel's proposed concessions Qatamon, the German Quarter, and some other portions of Jewish-held West Jerusalem, in exchange for the Jewish Quarter and...
  9. J

    WI: Jones instead of Souter?

    I suppose he could cut a deal with O'Connor in order to get a 7-2 opinion with both woman Justices on board. O'Connor's position in 1983 was more conservative than in in 1992. In 1983 she said they should keep the undue burden test which had developed since Danforth (1976) for reviewing...
  10. J

    WI: Jones instead of Souter?

    I think Rehnquist would want to keep it for himself.
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    WI: Jones instead of Souter?

    What if George HW Bush had selected Edith Jones instead of David Souter? The Court's composition by the 1992 election would be William H Rehnquist (Conservative) Byron White (Center) Harry Blackmun (Liberal) John Paul Stevens (Liberal) Sandra Day O'Connor (Moderate Conservative) Antonin...
  12. J

    What if Germany 'just says no' to blank check, 7/1914 & after? Is there a WWI? For Germany?

    Let's list off what Austria demanded. To suppress any publication which incites to hatred and contempt of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy To dissolve immediately the group named "Narodna Odbrana," to confiscate all its means of propaganda, and to proceed in the same manner against other...
  13. J

    WI: A Faisal-Ben Gurion Agreement?

    A useful example from OTL might be the Palestinians. They became the dominant economic class in Jordan and Kuwait, but there were always rules ensuring that Kuwaitis and Jordanians remained in control of the military, civil service, and political offices. Although in the case of Iraq, Jews...
  14. J

    Hoare-Laval Goes Through?

    What if the Hoare-Laval Proposal hadn't leaked, and Italy and Ethiopia agreed to it in 1935? The most immediate consequence, methinks, would be that Italy remains aligned with the UK and France against Germany. Mussolini didn't like Hitler to begin with, and a lot of his drifting toward...
  15. J

    WI: Nineteenth Century Italian North Africa as a sponge for Italians?

    OTL about 4 million Italian emigrated to the Americans between 1880 and 1920. If Italy had been more involved in North Africa, could that region have served as a sponge for Italians? Tunisia: Italy getting Tunisia is a non-starter, as France had interests there and Britain did not want any...
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