When the founder of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl, met British Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain in 1902, Herzl told him: Our base must be in Palestine, which can be a “buffer state” that secures British interests.
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On March 28, 1921, British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill visited Jerusalem. He defended the Balfour Declaration as "one of the facts definitely established by the triumphant conclusion of the Great War." He failed to explain it was a fait accompli.
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@nomad_in_ether
The Brits, specifically General Orde Wingate, trained Haganah (who approved of the bombing) in terror techniques including collective punishment in 1938. Irgun learned to bomb from the best! Wingate has several places named after him in Israel.
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@_tgwilson_
the First Zionist Congress, held at Basel in August 1897 under the leadership of Theodor Herzl. Haphazard colonisation of Palestine, supported by wealthy Jewish financiers as a mixed philanthropic-colonial venture...
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