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Why did the British support Arab nationalists during world war 1?

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2 new super powers: the soviet union, and the untited states creating a world with mass murder
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Primarily because they made a convenient ally against the Ottoman Empire, which had sided with the Germans under the Ottoman–German Alliance.
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