During World War I, Great Britain promised that the Arab provinces of the Middle East would be
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In 1915, the British needed the help of the Arabs in defeating the Ottoman Empire in World War I. In a set of letters referred as the 'McMahon–Hussein Correspondence,' they committed the Arabs that if they rebelled against The Ottoman Empir, they would be rewarded with an independent state .Similarly the British entered into a clandestine agreement in the works with France and Russia to carve up the Ottoman Empire amongst themselves. This was known as the 'Sykes-Picot Agreement.'. Then to make matters even more complicated, there was a third - and a new set of agreement with the Zionist community called the 'Balfour Declaration', promising the Jews their own ethno-state within the borders of Palestine.
So with these three contradictory agreements it was clear that somebody was going to get deceived. In the end, the British promises to the Arabs were a fraud.
The Arabs fought and died for the British, thinking that they would attain independence as a reward for their sacrifice. At the end the British and French marched into their territory and claimed the remains of empire for themselves.
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