At the end of the Great War the British had promised the Arabs independence and they had also pledged themselves to the creation of a Zionist state. Instead of keeping either of these pledges, they grabbed huge slices of the Near East for themselves. By then allowing some Jewish immigration, they then destabilised the situation and created the conflict that persists to the present day.Matt H. wrote:Palestine? I suppose you are unaware of the massive demands upon the British administration to allow open, free-flowing Jewish immigration, and how Arab and Jewish militants deliberately targeted British soldiers (see the King David Hotel bombing).
What if — His Majesty's Government had just let the Arabs have their own countries in 1919?
What if — His Majesty's Government had kept the promise of allowing national self-determination that they had made when they accepted German surrender on the terms of Wilson's Fourteen Points?
What if — British imperialism had not gone and mucked things up in yet another part of the world?