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How significant was foreign intervention in worsening the Arab Israeli conflict?

Foreign intervention can be said to be an important catalyst in the Arab Israeli conflict. With events such as interference of British involvement in the removal of Ottoman Empire in Palestine which was stated in Hussein McMahon letters in 1916 in the concern of the political status of Arab nations. Furthermore, the secret agreements in Sykes-picot agreements would have helped influence the conflict. Also, the balfour declaration 1917 where the British wanted to give Jews a national home all these evidently involved international influences which led the creation of Israel in 1948 and the Arabs backfired as a result.

Foreign intervention during World War 1 1914 could have been argued in hindering Arab Israeli conflict. This is because during World War 1 Ottoman Empire had joined with Germany and Austria against the allies British and the French. An ottoman military government ruled Palestine. The war was hard on both Arab and Jews but especially the Jewish population as the ottoman military ordered internment and deportation of all foreign nationals. A large number of Jews were Russian nationals. They had been able to enter Palestine as Russian nationals because of the concessions Turkey had granted to Russian citizens, and they had used this method to overcome restrictions on immigration. They had also maintained Russian citizenship to avoid being drafted into the Turkish army. Therefore, a large number of Jews were forced to flee Palestine during the war. A small group founded the NILI underground that fed intelligence information to the British, in order to free the land of Turkish rule. The Turks eventually caught members of the NILI group, but the information they provided is said to have helped the British invasion effort. During the World War 1 the British had to two main goals in the war this was to win the war and the other reason was to increase there influence on the...

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