Excerpt of a shiur given on the 14th of Iyar, 5786.

A person travels to London – but [Eretz Yisrael] is his home.

The home remains our home.

In the meantime, someone conquered there, I flew back to my home.

So, on that day, Hashem made an eternal covenant with Avraham. Huckabee said this.

I am giving this land to your descendants, from the Nahar Mitzrayim, until the great river, Nahar Prat.

All of this was given to the Jews, it’s permitted for them to conquer the Prat. David wanted to continue [to conquer Rome].

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Now, we’ll read the letter [of Hussein], that he wrote, and that they managed to copy, because they took all the letters.

They took this away, [that was written in the letter that” we have an obligation to welcome guests, and these Jews will open up the Aretz.

There were no bridges, there were no train tracks, there was nothing [in Eretz Yisrael at the turn of the 20th century]. The Jews brought the train tracks, the bridges, they built houses. [The Bedouin] lived in tents, they lives in houses made of mud-brick.

The Jews… It’s a holy birthright… It’s the holy birthright of the firstborn son [i.e. the zchut of the firstborn that Eisav sold to Yaakov in return for a pot of lentils], the real Jews, the true sons of Eretz Yisrael.

All of this, Hussein Ali wrote.

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But they didn’t want to accept him, and then the Z…s saw that Dahan was already meeting with them [the Arab Heads of State].

He already had three letters. They ran off to Amman fast, to meet him, with Hussein Ali. He said, no, I only want religious Jews [in Eretz Yisrael]. Here, there should only be chareidim.

This is what he said.

I don’t want you, I don’t want any agreement with you, no joint activities.

They [the Arabs] themselves wanted the Jews the ascend [to Eretz Yisrael]. They said, we will help to found here a national home [for the Jews].

Translated and excerpted from Shivivei Or # 456.

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The Rav’s shiur requires more investigation, but here is the starting point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMahon–Hussein_correspondence

Some snippets:

The correspondence is composed of ten letters that were exchanged from July 1915 to March 1916^[5] between Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and Lieutenant Colonel Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner to Egypt.

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[T]he primary reason for the arrangement was to counteract the Ottoman declaration of jihad (“holy war”) against the Allies, and to maintain the support of the 70 million Muslims in British India (particularly those in the Indian Army that had been deployed in all major theatres of the wider war).^[6] The area of Arab independence was defined to be “in the limits and boundaries proposed by the Sherif of Mecca” with the exception of “portions of Syria” lying to the west of “the districts of Damascus, Homs, Hama and Aleppo“; conflicting interpretations of this description were to cause great controversy in subsequent years.

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Notice that jihad was declared a full thirty years before the establishment of the State of Israel.

Israel didn’t cause the problem, it just came to act as the scapegoat for what was already going on here.

Last snippet for now:

Following the publication of the November 1917 Balfour Declaration (a letter written by British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild, a wealthy and prominent leader in the British Jewish community), which promised a national home for the Jews in Palestine, and the subsequent leaking of the secret 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement in which Britain and France proposed to split and occupy parts of the territory, the Sharif and other Arab leaders considered the agreements made in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence to have been violated.

Hussein refused to ratify the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and, in response to a 1921 British proposal to sign a treaty accepting the Mandate system, stated that he could not be expected to “affix his name to a document assigning Palestine to the Zionists and Syria to foreigners”.^[9]

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UPDATE:

Take a look at this scholarly article from the 1970s, which basically supports most of what the Rav is saying here, from historical sources, with the caveat that everything is written from the author’s own bias, and can’t just be swallowed down wholesale:

A Matter of Principle: King Hussein of the Hijaz and the Arabs of Palestine on JSTOR

Or to put this in other words, Britain and France caused this huge mess in the Middle East, and it’s been pinned on the Jews ever since, by the anti-semites of the world.