Under the royals, Lord Balfour had promised independence to Palestine with the Jews controlling the areas around Haifa and Jerusalem and the Arabs controlling Transjordan under the Hashemites. With the new imperial policies being implemented, representatives from the territories wanted to know the status of their independence. Mosley made it clear that the empire would give up no more land. All current imperial territories would remain so. He then arrested the leaders as traitors to the Empire and sent the rest home. When the supplicants returned to Palestine.....
Ordering the traitors dealt with, Mosley sent General Gort to Palestine.
The Palestinian revolt was not even covered in British papers. Instead the news papers published stories about new research breakthroughs and other various accomplishments of the administration. ((I know it is the wrong pic, I forgot to take a shot of the one I did to reduce the dissent from the revolt))
The rebellion was centered in Jerusalem. General Wilson was determined to hold until relief arrived. He was confident in the superior skill and morale of his troops over the rebel rabble. Air support was ordered, but thunderstorms made accurate targeting all but impossible. Concerned about enraging even more of the populace should the holy temples in the city suffer battle damage, air bombardment was withheld pending better weather.
Braving the storm, troops began to hunt down and engage the rebels before they could spread the cancer of armed dissent.
The battle and the storm raged on for days without either side gaining the upper hand.
Gort finally arrived from Ireland with reinforcements. After forcing rebels out of Gaza, he pressed on north into Tel Aviv.
After clearing the rebels in Tel Aviv, Gort finally linked up with Wilson and routed the rebels with which Wilson had been struggling for almost 3 weeks.
This attempted uprising had been quashed. Would this stymie future resistance to imperial rule, or would the rebels only grow more desperate?
At home, unemployment is down to 10%. The citizens of the empire are very happy to hear this news. Imperial policies seem to work and the people are more content then they have been for a long time.
Why are we still debating this? The Empire will grow. We will not give up any of our proper lands.