But as World War I rolls in, they make a bad choice aligning themselves with the Central Powers. Bad choice. The British are going to come in and they're actually going to find Arab allies. This is where the story of Lawrence of Arabia comes from and they're going to fight the Ottoman Empire and defeat them and then the British are going to put their big fat foot in that land and they're going to claim a mandate over that land. They're going to control it until the end of World War II. But at this point, the British are going to adopt the position in something called the Balfour Declaration, which was in a letter from the foreign minister of Great Britain to the Rothschild, the banking lord, the Baron Rothschild, who was a British Zionist. The British were going to support the creation of a Jewish state.