A strange nit to pick but even then your details are wrong. 1896 - Herzl's pamphlet to Rotschilds[1] calling for an Israeli state in either Palestine or Argent

A strange nit to pick but even then your details are wrong. 1896 - Herzl's pamphlet to Rotschilds[1] calling for an Israeli state in either Palestine or Argentina 1897 - First Zionist Congress calling for establishing a Jewish state in Palestine 1917 - British sign Balfour declaration in a letter to Rotschild promising a jewish state in Palestine [2] 1918 - British defeat ottomans and drive them out of the Levant with help of Arab partisans promising them an Arab State. The arabs were betrayed.[3] So barely 20 years between First Pamplet and Congress and the Balfour declaration. Also note that British had already promised Palestine to the Jews before it even came to their possession. I would add that in 1914 the population was 94% arab. By 1948 after the British flooded in Jewish migrants mainly from Europe and the Americas, the population became about ~65% + arab and 35+ Jewish. And the just-formed UN (mostly controlled by Western countries and their friends) handed over 60% of the land to the Jews with Palestine split into 2. So for all intents and purposes "British handed over Palestine to Israel" seems to be an accurate summary. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Judenstaat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Judenstaat [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMahon%E2%80%93Hussein_Correspondence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMahon%E2%80%93Hussein_Corres...