T.Belman. This is a propaganda video. It blames the Arab/Jew conflict on the British double dealings. In essence it claims Britain offered the Jews a national homeland in Palestine and the Arabs self determination and independence. The Arabs felt betrayed because they expected to get one huge state. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXfuqUhzESg
Strangely, although the Balfour Declaration, Versailles Treaty, and the Sykes-Picot Agreement are all gone into, no mention was made of San Remo Res of 1920 at which the Jewish right to ownership of all of Palestine was confirmed in law. Also no mention was made of the fact that Jews were sovereign over these lands for 1000 years previously.(900BCE to 100 CE). The Arabs were subject to either French or British Mandates. Britain mollified them by giving Abdullah Transjordan contrary to San Remo.
Britain did not start the Arab-Jew conflict, Islam did, 1500 years ago. Britain caused the Arab/Israeli conflict by enabling the creation of Israel albeit reluctantly.
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The bias of the video is anti-British and anti-Jewish. In particular, the Balfour Declaration is blamed for the creation of Arab-Jewish conflict. From a human-centered perspective, in which individual human rights trump all others, these are valid charges. From a God-centered perspective, however, the Jewish cause is vindicated. The conflict, therefore, is one of Divine will against rebellious human will, and the British role in all this was merely incidental.