https://www.thecollector.com/british...ory-palestine/

https://shorturl.at/5yRQV Balfour Declaration Letter to Lord Rothschild

In the post-World War I period and subsequent geopolitical changes, the League of Nations granted Britain the mandate to administer the territory known as Palestine until the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 acknowledged British support for the establishment of a national home for Jewish people. Under British control, Palestine went through important socio-economic and political changes, as well as an influx of Jewish settlers, sparking Palestinian Arab opposition and political upheavals in the region.

Determined to secure its imperial interests in the region, in 1915, the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir Henry McMahon, secretly contacted Husayn ibn ‘Ali, the Ottoman governor of Mecca and Medina, convincing him to organize an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire’s government, which was backing Britain’s rivals in World War I—Italy and Germany. This series of letters is widely referred to as the Husayn-McMahon Correspondence.