Life in the Levant Had The 1947 UN Vote on Palestine Failed

On 29 November 1947 the United Nations voted to split British Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state. It passed 33 to 13. Four countries voting differently would have sunk it. So we cross over to the universe where it fails. You'll ride the night train from Cairo up the coast to Beirut, with stops in Gaza, Jaffa, Haifa and Naqoura, then head inland to Damascus and Amman. On the way you'll see where Iraq's oil ends up and what happens on the morning of 11 September 2001. Everything marked PARALLEL UNIVERSE on screen is speculation. Everything marked OUR UNIVERSE is real history, and the sources are in the pinned comment. Which stop would you get off at? Tell me in the comments. 0:00 The night train 1:29 The Levant before the split 4:39 Four votes 8:00 Torn out of the history books 10:27 The union 12:33 Stop one: Palestine 15:57 Stop two: Haifa and the tunnel 17:26 Stop three: Lebanon 22:07 Stop four: Syria 24:49 Stop five: Jordan 26:11 Off the line: Cairo and Baghdad 27:06 The parallel world 28:36 A Tuesday in September 30:02 Back to the wall The narration voice and the parallel-universe illustrations are AI-generated. Archive photos and film are real and labelled on screen. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): "Desert City", "Mystery Bazaar", "Ibn Al-Noor", "Heavy Heart", "Eternal Hope", "Finding the Balance", "Inspired", "Bossa Antigua", "Old Road", "Promises to Keep". Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Archive film and photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under Creative Commons licences: CC BY 4.0: Benno Rothenberg; Rapuano, Brickner, Shlesinger, Meroz-Fine, Tamir and Loya (Scientific Reports, 2017) CC BY 3.0: Al Jazeera; PoRtnOy; abraham Weizfeld; Google Earth; The Holy Land, by Zahi Shaked; Huti Jay; Hans Otten; KaeptnDotterbart; AN aviation CC BY 2.0: Jorge Láscar CC BY-SA 4.0: Sauvageot Camille (Albert Kahn archives); JHistory; دانية عيد; Roman Deckert CC BY-SA 3.0: Almog; Eyal sta; Marcus Cyron; Deror avi; Juandev; 3rik Albers Licences: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Full archive credits, with links, are in the pinned comment. #history #middleeast #whatif