To what extent was the west responsible for the creation of Israel?

What was the Jewish claim to Palestine?
Throughout the biblical times Jews were dispersed through Europe thus leading to Jews wanting their own homeland to settle in. Anti-Semitism feelings were often felt by other countries so finding that parcel of home to the Jews was hard. Orginally in 1500 BC and then in randomn spurts throughout history Jews had claims to the Palestinian land until the Romans crushed their rebellions and expelled them. Jews felt like that was their land but not until Zionism happend and praying for a "Next Year in Jersuleam" did they get help from the British by the Balfour Declartion. This document gave hope and faith that the Jews could develop their own state.

What was the importance of the Balfour Declartion?
The Balfour Declartion was like a pully system, gains on both sides for he British and the Jews. The British showed their support of te Jews inorder to get support from the US in the war against the Jews. While the declartion gave hope to the Jews to establish a Jewish state with the help of Britian. It gave hope to the countries that needed help and with a careful display of words Britian gave the prayers of the Jews their answer to a "Year in Jersuleam."

What was the Arab Claim to Palestine?
Arabs soon came together as a "country" in Saudi Arabia and later took over the Middle East, including Palestine but later got overruled by the Ottamon Empire in the 7'th and 8'th century. The Arabs formed revolts that always got cut down by the Turks because the Arabs wanted to reclaim their land. Over time a Brithish High Commisioner who livewd in Egypt exchanged letters with the Arabs and promised Arabs that as a the country of Britian he and his mother country would "assist the Arabs to establish what was to appear to the the most suitable form of government." Little did Arabs know that later on after World War One they would be governed by Britian. The Arabs felt Palestine that Britian now "owned" was theirs and therefore they wanted it back.

To what extant was WW1 a turning point in the struggle for Arab independence?
The turning point for the Arabs in this was the fact that it was one more step from dealing with the Ottamon empire. They had their own land but couldn't govern it at first as the British said they would assit them to establish a most suitable government, this is how Britian saw to be the most fit way, to slowly release the land to them, but not before they profited from their natural resources. The Ottamon Empire struggle for the Arabs was having absultlet no control over themsevles. WW1 gave the Arabs throught the Versaille Treaty a chance to become a semi-independent nation.

Why did France and Britian want mandates in the Middle East?
The Sykes-Picat Agreement of 1916 had the underlying ideas of why those two countries wanted mandaes in the Middle East. For one both countries had extensive agreements in trade in the Middle East (fuel and wealth) and Britian wanted to protect the Suez Canal, a major trade and connection to its empire in India and oil fields in the Persian Gulf. Britian saw this canal as a bufer zone because they already controlled Egypt and Palestine was on the other side. France also wanted to mantain an nfluence in the Middle East because of its trading gains. France and Britian wanted to mantain strong allies because of the WW1 conflict with Germany and by this agreement they were able to mantain strong allies due to more resources through trade and natural resources such as oil, and not to add more land to give them more power; thus leading to a stronger front against their enemies