HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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All national groups in the former Ottoman Empire were being given homelands at the same time.
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Arab countries in the area supported the creation of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine.
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Many felt the Jews deserved help because they had suffered so much in the Holocaust.
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There was no one else living on the land at that time.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Syria was the sole negative vote; the United States, Argentina, Colombia, the Soviet Union, and the Ukrainian SSR voted in favour; and Belgium, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, and France abstained.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Israeli victory in 1948 can also be attributed to the international support Israel received, notably the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which the British promised to support the Zionist cause of establishing a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.