Palestine was not a colony. It was administered by Britain as part of a UN mandate.
There was no UN at the time.
Why did the international community give the British that Mandate?
Precisely because of the promises made and immediately broken.
Palestine was not a colony. It was administered by Britain as part of a UN mandate.Please forgive me. I should have written, "administered like a colony," by the same Foreign Office, or have you yet to read Hannah Arendt's On Totalitarianism trilogy, where she describes the link between colonial-imperial policy and the evolution of European notions of race, developments the British participated in.