The Future of Palestine

The Future of Palestine
The first draft of the memorandum as published in the British Cabinet papers (CAB 37/123/43), as at 21 January 1915
CreatedJanuary–March 1915
Author(s)Herbert Samuel
PurposeAdvocate for incorporation of Palestine as British Protectorate in the British Empire

The Future of Palestine, also known as the Samuel memorandum, was a memorandum circulated by Herbert Samuel to the British Cabinet in January and March 1915, two months after the British declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire.

It was the first time in an official record that enlisting the support of Jews as a war measure was proposed.

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