Ottoman Turkeys decision to ally with Germany in the First World War led directly to the British and French conquest of the Middle East and sealed the fate of Palestine. In a monstrous betrayal of its people 93 percent of them Arab the November 1917 Balfour Declaration withheld the independence they rightly anticipated and for strategic reasons earmarked Palestine as a National Home for the Jewish People. Ronald Storrs a British Foreign and Colonial Office official remarked that The U.K. proposed to hand Palestine without consulting the occupants to a third party and what sort of third party The result was the foundation of Israel in 1948. Through ethnic cleansing and massacre the new state drove out helpless Palestinian victims of Perfidious Albion in whom London at no stage showed the slightest interest. They were condemned to seventy years in refugee camps or to secondclass citizenship of Israel as in the words of an Israeli Foreign Minister the landgrab state was born in sin. Credit for this shameful act is generally given to the Zionist supporters of Theodore Hertzl. But Britain cleared the way by expelling the Mufti of Jerusalem the Palestinians only leader providing the Zionists who extraordinarily made concurrent overtures to Hitler and Mussolini with military training in Britains Second World War campaigns in Iraq and Syria. Itself ejected by its ungrateful protege Britain lost all the aims of its Declaration no base to guard the Suez Canal no Haifa port no railway to Iraq and no oil pipeline and all its prestige in the Arab World.show more