Twenty-two years later, on – on the eve of World War II – the British issued a policy statement known as the “ White Paper”.
World War I was winding down, and the great powers of that time, Britain and France, were making their moves to secure a footing in the disintegrating Ottoman Empire. On November 2, 1917, the British issued a statement, the “ Balfour Declaration”, in support of the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
