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Because the Ottoman Empire sided with Germany during WWI, which led to the British Mandate?
How so? Ottoman imperialism over the region did not significantly alter the proportion of demographics in Palestine, which remained a mixed Jewish-Christian-Muslim population of majority Arabic extraction, as it had been before Ottoman control.