WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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In return for their military cooperation against the Turks, the British and French would recognize Arab independence
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France and Great Britain had no territorial interests in the Middle East
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Britain viewed with favor the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine
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Egypt and the Suez Canal were British protectorates
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With the end of the conflict former Turkish holding would be divided between the French and British as mandates
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Hence the most documented explanation for the declaration is that the British government hoped to persuade Jews in two wavering Allied countries, the United States and Russia, to insist that their Page 4 governments stay in the war until total victory.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Balfour Declaration thus meant that the Palestinians faced the prospect of being outnumbered by unlimited immigration, and of losing control of Palestine to the Zionist drive for sole sovereignty over a country that was then almost completely Arab in population and culture.
Detailed explanation-4: -On November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour writes an important letter to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The letter would eventually become known as the Balfour Declaration.
Detailed explanation-5: -The British Mandate for Palestine (1918-1948) was the outcome of several factors: the British occupation of territories previously ruled by the Ottoman Empire, the peace treaties that brought the First World War to an end, and the principle of self-determination that emerged after the war.