[OOC] Born of War(Post-WW4 NRP)

[Charles]

Anyway, If necessary I will continue this tomorrow cause I'm going to sleep.

[BingTheWing]

Republic of Judea

"Only the flag of a new nation, bearing the name of no religion, no creed, no nationality, except that of the people themselves, can restore stability and peace to our shattered homeland."
- Dr. Rahim al-Dalayah, The Nation-state

Encompasses Israel-Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

Name of Nation:

Republic of Judea

Government Type:

Officially a democratic presidential republic, in actuality a one-party authoritarian oligarchy. In an effort to prevent nationalist parties from usurping power and radicalizing the people, the Judean People's Party is the only political party allowed to run for and hold office.

Military:

The Judean military prefers to call itself the Fear of the Levant, and by many standards can be regarded as such. The centralized spending and the authoritarian interests of the regime have formed the Judean Armed Forces into one of the most effective militaries in Asia just under the span of a year. The Judean army is especially skilled at roadblocks, house-to-house searches, counterterrorist measures, and policing the people in general, skills gleaned from years of experience from Israel's campaign against terrorists. Guerilla tactics of course still exist within the army - the Judean Army's 41st Battalion is feared among the ranks of the world's special forces. The AKX-78, a modified version of the AK-74, is standard issue for the Judean Army. The Judean Air Force mostly uses F-25s, spiritual successors to the F/A-18 Hornets and specializes in bombing runs.

Economy:

Despite just recovering from the Levantine War, Judea's success means that it has more access to more manpower and resources than ever before. Judea's strength lies in nuclear technology and energy, planning to replace natural gas and coal with it. The country's recent militarization program has upped the demand for iron, copper, and other industrial metals. For now, its economy is close to present-day Germany's in power.

Foreign Policy:

Judea is a new state and has just won the entire Levant for state territory, so at the moment its people are not inclined to concrete imperialistic tendencies. However, it is currently undergoing an intense militarization program in preparation for any foes ahead. For now, it wishes to assert itself as the true dominant power in the Middle East.

History:

In 2016, at the height of the hostilities between Israel and Palestine, 31-year-old Palestinian Dr. Rahim al-Dalayah published his book called The Nation-state. In it, Dalayah expressed his views that the extreme fundamentalism and stubbornness of both the Zionists and the Palestinians had led to the polarization of the country, when in fact they should have been able to coexist together by putting aside any mention of jihad or the Holy Land. Dalayah's writings gained a large following in both Israel and Palestine, which eventually reformed into the Advocacy for a New Republic (ANR) in the fall of 2016. Founded by Dalayah himself and other like-minded revolutionary scholars, the ANR aimed to unite both Israel and Palestine into one Republic of Judea, named after the 'exiled' Biblical kingdom of old, since only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the 'true' House of David. The naming of the new nation did not have religious overtones, Dalayah explained, but rather a unifying theme of the two shattered states of Israel and Palestine into one.

In the spring of 2017, the ANR started mass peaceful protests in both Israel and Palestine, but found their ideas were more receptive in the latter. Three years passed, and the ANR had already secured a seat in the Palestinian National Council, been officially endorsed by the Palestine Liberation Organization, and had backing from hundreds of thousands of followers around the globe. However, Israel, ruled by a strong right-wing party, rejected the ANR's policies in congress, shut down their protests, and recognized them as disturbers of the peace. The turning point arrived when a rally in Jerusalem in 2021 ended with a massacre of peaceful ANR protestors by Israeli riot police, on account of a Molotov cocktail being thrown from the crowd at a police car. Dr. Dalayah was accidentally shot and killed by one of his own supporters at a rally three days later. Thus ended the era of the ANR as an activist group and its descent into a terrorist organization.

The ANR renamed themselves the Judean League, in light of the need to reassert their goals. Semi-collaborating with HAMAS, al-Qaeda, and other extremist groups, the Judean League launched one of the most destructive terrorist campaigns in world history. It was said in the summer of 2022, no Zionist could step out of his door without soaking his feet in the blood of his brethren. Meanwhile, the Judean League also increased ties with an increasingly radicalized Palestine. Finally, in 2025, Palestine declared its independence and war on Israel, coinciding with the Third World War.

After the war, the Judean League awaited political clout, funding, and land grants from the new Islamic Republic of Palestine. None of these three they received. Their political power was greatly diminished by the incumbent Islamic Party, and their spent resources in combating the Zionists went unreimbursed. Thus began the Judean League's second campaign against fundamentalists. The enemy switched from the stubborn Zionist to the ungrateful Moslem. This hate extended to the other neighboring Levantine states who refused to thank them for uprooting the Zionist evil.

However, the Palestinians managed to be even tougher than their Israeli predecessors, and, in a campaign that would bring peace and order to the failed Zionist state overrun by terrorists, forced the Judean League underground. For another decade and a half, the sons of Judea operated in silence. That changed when in 2040, a nuclear bomb detonated in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Al-Quds (Jerusalem), killing all of the Palestinian Senate, and angering many other Islamic states in the Levant. Thus began the Levantine War, coinciding with the start of the Fourth World War.

After the dust settled, Palestine and Israel were no more. Neither were Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, or any other of the Levantine states. The Republic of Judea was founded on the ruins of the Levant, sworn to be vigilant against the miry claws of fundamentalism and stubborn nationalism that had caused the deaths of so many. As the 21st century marches on, Judea is burdened with the future of the Levant.

Foes:

Judea was created for one reason alone: to combat the evils of nationalism and fundamentalism. Consequently, any state with strong nationalist, fundamentalist, or any general right-wing tendencies defending a certain race, religion, or nationality tends to earn Judea's suspicion. Therefore, Judea tends to regard highly theocratic, nationalistic, or racist countries with deep suspicion.

Demographics:

13% Jewish
85% Arab
2% Other

Other:

• In the Third World War, the Free Syrian Army was successful in overthrowing Bashar al-Assad's regime. However, they too were also destroyed in the Levantine War.
• In an effort to cleanse Judea from the cancerous Zionist legacy, Arabic is now the national language - though Hebrew is still somewhat widely spoken in former Israel, it is looked down on as a second-rate tongue.
• Two revolutionary groups, the Sons of the Menorah and al-Thawra, are active within Judea. However, their activities as of now are mostly nonexistent.
• Judea, of course, has no state religion, and actively criminalizes religious worship and gatherings.

[Charles]

@BingTheWing Good job, Accepted.

[BingTheWing]

Got a post up. Can be a little confusing, but remember, al-Dalayah said that religion was the reason Israel and Palestine went to war. Expect to see some radical atheism here.

EDIT: Wait, there's war in the Middle East? Whooooooops, forgot to reply to that.

[Lauder]

@BingTheWing

Yeah that is happening. And Vornehm is intervening!

[Charles]

If I remember correctly I am not trying to invade Isreal or Palestine, not sure bout the other doe.

[Charles]

@BingTheWing there is nothing to explain the storyline of that post besides.... Awesome. BY the ay guys! You are decided how a book goes right now! I am making a book off of the point of view of people in these nations :), so keep em goin!

[Iluvatar]

Right, I'm back! Was busy yesterday.

[Dinh AaronMk]

@BingTheWing@Charles

To be fair the area you're invading is largely the Central Asian Steppe and Greater Persia. Or West Asia, not the Middle East. The Middle East is more-or-less anything From Persia on West, but East of the Aegean Sea and Egypt. Or roughly there about.

Egypt too lays in the geographical region of North Africa as much as The Middle East.

[Charles]

@Dinh AaronMk
Alright Thanks, tbh I didn't know that :P

[Lauder]

@Charles

Actually, what countries are you attacking, exactly?

[Charles]

It says in my post, tbh I can't remember :P

[BingTheWing]

On a side note - guys, shouldn't we be more pacifist and war-avoidant? We've just gone through two world wars. I would expect the atmosphere to be tense and coldly diplomatic rather than militaristic and warlike.

[Lauder]

It says in my post, tbh I can't remember :P

@Charles

@BingTheWing
I would have liked that. Though, my policy of Intervention means I must get involved in the name of Vornehm business interests.

[BingTheWing]

@Charles

In an earlier post, Sui ran a simulation of a theoretical war between Alderaan Aldoran and ALL the Middle Eastern states - Judea presumably included. Also, Sui mentions earlier threats against the Middle Eastern states to join Aldoran, so my next post will probably feature Judea responding to these threats.

[Dinh AaronMk]

On a side note - guys, shouldn't we be more pacifist and war-avoidant? We've just gone through two world wars. I would expect the atmosphere to be tense and coldly diplomatic rather than militaristic and warlike.

@BingTheWing

Two world wars would have probably devestated the economic situation of the world, especially so close together. So there'd be no funds to go to war.

[BingTheWing]

@Dinh AaronMk Not always - America came out of both the first and second world wars a powerhouse. War boosts the economy of the victor (if they've never been invaded themselves, of course), or motivates struggling countries to do so (e.g West Germany's Wirtschaftswunder).

[Dinh AaronMk]

@Dinh AaronMk Not always - America came out of both the first and second world wars a powerhouse. War boosts the economy of the victor (if they've never been invaded themselves, of course), or motivates struggling countries to do so (e.g West Germany's Wirtschaftswunder).

@BingTheWing

Not necessarily.

Big war-time spending is followed rather immediately by sudden economic slumps. In the time-frame this RP is set after the war, folk should be in a post-war recession. In some cases they'll be on their way out; but that's the thing that's forgotten: the industrial shift from a war-time economy to a peace-time economy means that when the change happens there'll be a period of a slow, doggish economy.

What the world wars did for the US was to clear foreign competition. After both World Wars actually. With Europe crippled at the end of the first war and the second the US could work its way into selling product into markets with high demand and little to no ways to supply the demand. This rose the value of American commodities and when the economy came back to peace-time production the value of the US supply market rose sharply.

There were other issues at play too in each case. The Great Depression underscores the negative side-effects of going on a relentless supply spree and a certain lack of long-term foresight into what'd happen when supply breaches demand, Calvin College's belief in doing absolutely nothing certainly didn't help in mitigating the future disaster of an inevitable depression; one which was made as massive as it was because the US was the only functioning economy. Europe too couldn't afford to keep on the US tit either, since at the time the US owned a disproportionate supply of the world's gold and wasn't using it, so the old power-markets of the world were becoming hugely impoverished compared to the soaring wealth of the US.

A post-WW2 crash following the boom of the fifties was probably in part avoided because of US spending on support in Europe which became one of the earliest aspects of curbing the growth of the Soviet Sphere by keeping the western European populace from being so impoverished they turned to Communism. But this spending made sure that the UK, France, Western Germany and so on had enough capital flowing through them that they could spend it on buying American products to help fuel the American economy.

This doesn't mean even then the US economy grew consistently, Eisenhower had to deal with regular recessions and during the US post-war years industry began to take on the basic philosophy of the post-Pearl Harbor military: decentralize itself. But that's a whole other story.

War for the sake of Economic Growth is a pretty bad philosophy. Either a mission like Vietnam becomes morally questionable to outright deplorable, or like with the second war in Iraq and Afghanistan we get a total economic meltdown at home. But the underlying economic problem with war is that it creates false growth. All the product that's made never comes back to the people. It's all used up in explosions and fire and never to benefit at-home development. Two world wars close together would be absolutely devestating to worker populations and available resources that might otherwise create growth.

[Charles]

My videos show the 5 nations I declared war against and none of the Judea states are in it.

[BingTheWing]

@Dinh AaronMk Fair enough.

@Charles Could you direct us to the exact post?

EDIT: I found the list of invaded countries thanks to one of Aaron's earlier OOC posts, but I'd recommend being more explicit IC.