Ronald Storrs

So, um, yeah, so it was a, yeah, [laughs] quite a, a win-win for them.

Um, and yeah, and, uh, as Ronald Storrs later said, who, who became the, um, the first military governor of Jerusalem, he ...

And you quote him.

Uh, it was, they wanted a sea o- a loyal little Ulster and a sea of potentially hostile pan-Arabism.

We will support your project in exchange for our, are using that as the pretext for our being in Palestine.

In the words of a British official who was actually the first military governor of Jerusalem, a man named Sir Ronald Storrs, what Britain was trying to establish was a little loyal Jewish ulster in a sea of hostile Arabs.

And I think that sort of sums it up.

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