The Palestinians remained under Ottoman control until World War I, when the British offered to help the Palestinians. Without thinking about the conflicts that might arise over the next hundred years in the Middle East, the British made incompatible promises to both the Palestinians and the Jews. “They [the British] had promised independence to the Palestinians in exchange for taking up arms against their Ottoman Turkish rulers…. In November 1917, in what became known as the Balfour Declaration, Britain announced its support for a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine (of course, the land was already populated and promised to the Arabs indigenous). (“Israel-Palestine Conflict,” 2013, p.1)” In reality, the area remained populated by Palestinians and was politically taken under British control. These contradictory promises marked the start of political unrest between Jews and Palestinians. Again, after World War II and the deaths of millions of Jews, the British, as well as the UN and the United States included, felt that it was constructive for Jewish culture to foster the creation of a new Jewish state. Although there seemed to be no better place than Palestine to place the Jews, it was obviously