What was Balfour declaration all about?
These are the true facts up to the British Mandate. Before the British Mandate, the Ottoman Empire occupied Palestine. In 1922, the Arabs organized several revolts driving out and ending Ottoman occupation of Palestine.the United States abdicated any further role in the new European order after the summer of 1919.Britain and France divided the Middle East between them. In April 1920, in the small Italian town of San Remo, Britain and France divide the Middle East into mandates while the American ambassador read his newspaper in the garden. Britain obtained Palestine, Transjordan Palestine and Transjordan remained a single administrative unit until 1946, but in 1922, Transjordan was detached from the area to which the Balfour Declaration applied. This has remained a grievance with the Zionist side.The area to the east of the river Jordan was definitely included in the area promised to Husayn in 1915; the linking of Palestine and Transjordan was administrative convenience for Britain and
