Yep. That was the purpose of the Balfour Declaration.
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ..."
Why does every frickin' single discussion about Israel always end up going back 50 years or 5000 years? Why can't you stay on topic?
I went back only as far as the establishment of the current borders to describe the current situation. I don't see what a private letter written in 1917 expressing the unilateral position of the British government at that time has to do with anything today?