Talk:Uganda Proposal

I'm no expert wikifyer or expert on this issue so someone's going to have to help me out here. As i understand it, Herzl died in 1904 and the British Mandate of Palestine did not come into existence until after World War I. Before that it was part of the Ottoman empire. Thus, I do not see how this opening statement makes any sense... "This proposal was made by Theodore Herzl in 1903...when he found that all his efforts had made absolutely no progress toward convincing the British (occupying Palestine) that the Jews deserved a homeland in Palestine." Why would Herzl be convincing the British if the British did not have any claim to the area at the time? -larapod