[Tell It Right]

Even the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini (the top-dog Muslim there in 1920's) said they weren't Palestinians and there was "no such people" as Palestinians, that it was a made up construct of Zionists and their supporters. LOL

In 1921 he wrote a letter to Churchill (then Sec of State of the Colonies) demanding that the area of Palestine be reunited with Syria and Transjordan. LOL

Absolutely nobody, not even the most anti-Semitic people, thought of "Palestine" as some separate region until it became politically expedient to do so.

[Elsie]

The declaration had many long-lasting consequences. It greatly increased popular support for Zionism within Jewish communities worldwide, and became a core component of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founding document of Mandatory Palestine. It is considered a principal cause of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict, often described as the world's most intractable conflict. Controversy remains over a number of areas, such as whether the declaration contradicted earlier promises the British made to the Sharif of Mecca in the McMahon–Hussein correspondence.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration