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At a cost of over a million lives taking the place I'd say so.This region was taken by force in a stand against the Germans and Ottomans during WWI at a cost of 1 to 1.5 million Allied forces............Ending the long standing rule by the Ottomans...................
Middle Eastern theatre of World War I - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
None of the countries of today there were even countries there.................and those that won the region by force of arms had every right to decide the fate of the region............including the creation of Israel at a much later date............
Really? They had the right to remove the inhabitants of the conquered lands to make room for Europeans in contravention of the Covenant of the League of Nations which Britain, France and Italy signed?