The correct answer is D) the British promised both -Palestinian and Jews- and independent homeland in the same part of its Middle East empire. leading both groups to feel that they had a legal right to the territory.
<em>20th-century British politics relate to the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict in that the British promised both -Palestinian and Jews- and independent homeland in the same part of its Middle East empire. leading both groups to feel that they had a legal right to the territory.</em>
In the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British committed to set up a home territory for the Jewish people in Palestine. But the problem was that the British also made a commitment to the Palestinians to give them land, for the support against the Turks. The reality was that those decisions of splitting land were not only in the hands of the British, and the conflicts between Jews and Arabs increased.
