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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | LRB essay | The Mandate years: colonialism and the creation of Israel |
 | | Montagu called Zionism "a mischievous political creed" and wrote that, in favouring it, "the policy of His Majesty's Government is anti-semitic." David Alexander, president of the Board of British Jews, Claude Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish Association, and most Orthodox rabbis also opposed the Zionist enterprise. |
 | | Britain appointed Zionist Jews to important positions: not only Herbert Samuel, but also his son Edwin Samuel (whom Segev describes as a 'double agent') to liaise with the Zionist Commission and Norman Bentwich as attorney-general. |
 | | Weizmann persuaded Balfour, Samuel and Churchill to transfer Colonel Edmund Vivian Gabriel, who was responsible for the military budget. |
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