Background
It was during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War that a British Army, known as the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, first arrived in Palestine. The British Empire forces, commanded by General Edmund Allenby, defeated the occupying Turkish Army and ended 400 years of rule by the Ottoman Empire.
Around the same time, the British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote a letter to Baron Rothschild which has since became known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The letter stated: "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
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