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Pada bulan Juli 1914, meletus perang di Eropa antara kubu [[Entente Tiga|Tri-''Entente'']] (Inggris Raya, Prancis, [[Kekaisaran Rusia|Rusia]]) dan kubu [[Blok Sentral|Kekaisaran Sentral]] (Jerman, Austria-Hongaria, [[Kesultanan Utsmaniyah|Turki Osmanli]]).{{sfn|Schneer|2010|p=32}}
 
[[Kabinet Britania Raya|Kabinet Inggris Raya]] pertama kali membahas Palestina dalam rapat tanggal 9 November 1914, empat hari sesudah Inggris Raya memaklumkan perang terhadap Kekaisaran Turki Osmanli. Wilayah Kekaisaran Turki Osmanli ketika itu mencakup pula [[Kemutasarifan Yerusalem|Mutasarifat Yerusalem]], yakni daerah administratif yang kerap disebut Palestina.{{sfn|Büssow|2011|p=5}}.<!-- At the meeting [[David Lloyd George]], then [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]], "referred to the ultimate destiny of Palestine".{{sfn|Reid|2011|p=115}} The Chancellor, whose law firm Lloyd George, Roberts and Co had been engaged a decade before by the [[Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland]] to work on the [[Uganda Scheme]],{{sfn|Defries|2014|p=44}} was to become Prime Minister by the time of the declaration, and was ultimately responsible for it.{{sfn|Lewis|2009|pp=115–119}}
 
[[File:Future of Palestine Herbert Samuel memorandum 1915 CAB 37 123 43.jpg|thumb|left|Herbert Samuel's Cabinet memorandum, ''[[The Future of Palestine]]'', as published in the British Cabinet papers (CAB 37/123/43), as at 21{{nbsp}}January 1915]]