akuperma -“Balfour never promised an independent state.”
Well this is controvesial. Some say that’s exactly what the Balfour declaration did promise.
Here is the declaration: “His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
“At most, contemporaries thought it might involve a self-governing entity similar to what Canada or Australia were at the time”
Even if you’re correct, Britain still renegaded on even doing this. So they still double-crossed the Jews.