| PrAs part of its campaign against the Ottomans, the British captured Palestine. Prior to their taking control of Palestine, Great Britain issued the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration stated that the British government favored "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of that object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious right of exist
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