Why did the British give away half of Palestine to the Hashemites?

>>3269668
>half of Palestine
You realize that this geographical region you have in your map isn't what Balfour had in mind when giving that promise or even what Jews had in mind when settling in the decades before that. It is Just an administrative line, and Brits had other promises to fulfill in the region.

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>>3269686
Not true at all. The entire thing was promised to the Jews at first.

>>3269668
The Balfour Declaration was an informal policy promise made decades earlier by a Foreign Secretary. Your argument is a bit like saying Donald Trump is bound by some random minor policy Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State made.

This whole "Britain created Israel" is something of a meme, by the time Israel was formed Britain was actively trying to prevent Jewish immigration to the area and even militarily helped the Arabs during the Israeli War of Independence.

They should've given all of it to the Arabs as agreed in return for fighting for the ottoman.