The Allied Powers meet in Paris to negotiate peace treaties with the Central Powers between January 1919 and January 1920.

At the conference, Amir Faisal (representing the Arabs) and Chaim Weizmann (representing the Zionists) set forth their cases.

Weizmann and Faisal reach a separate agreement on January 3, 1919, pledging the two parties to cordial cooperation; however, Faisal writes a proviso on the document in Arabic that his signature depends upon Allied war pledges regarding Arab independence.

Since these pledges will not be fulfilled to Arab satisfaction after the war, most Arab leaders and spokesmen will not consider the Faisal-Weizmann agreement as binding.