Speaking volumes about contemporary (and perhaps today’s) British attitudes, Sir Alan Cunningham, High Commissioner for Palestine, described Zionism in 1947 as a movement in which
…the forces of nationalism are accompanied by the psychology of the Jew, which it is important to recognise as something quite abnormal and unresponsive to rational treatment. — quoted in Karsh, Fabricating Israeli History, p. 187
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