Australian-Judean War

Since 1948, Australia and the Jewish state of Judea, have been in intermittent conflict with one another. Prior to 1948, Australia shared an uneasy peace. After 1973, with the close of the Yom Kippur (in OTL, occured in the Middle East), various peace arrangements between the two countries were settled by the USA and the UK and large-scale conflict soon ceased, though a final peace agreement has yet to be reached between the Judea and Australia. The two countries generally remain at odds with each other over the Kimberley region which comprises of the western half of Judea.

History (1933-1947)
In 1933, The Australian government offered Northern Australia (northern half of OTL Northern Territory). The US intially fought against it with the their offer of the (OTL state of Isreal) but Jewish support for the Australian offer and Prime Minister Winston Churchill's intervention overruled the American offer and European Jews, as well as Jews from the Middle East, came quickly to settle the land. Six years later in 1939, the Freeland League, led by Isaac Nachman Steinberg, launched the Kimberley Plan to settle the Kimberley region of West Australia. It was met with Australian oppostion. But after 1945, with the end of World War 2, the Kimberley Plan was soon brought back into action. Finally, in 1947, with assistance from the UN, Judea's Kimberley Plan had at last succeeded in obtaining new land in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, thus redrawing Judea's borders. But this soured relations between Judea and Australia, as the Australian government did not want to lose the Kimberley regions. It would ultimately lead to the 1948 Australian-Judean War and the Australians decided to time it with the termination of the British Mandate of Palestine.



History (1948-1973)
On May 15th, 1948, one day after the British Mandate in Palestine was terminated, the Australian Army launched a surprise attack on Judea with a strike force composing of two regiments of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps made up of large groups of Centurion tanks accompanied by infantry  on the eastern border of Judea, as the northern border of the state of Central Australia.