Re: Anglo-German competition for Zionist support in WWI

On the subject John Leonard originally inquired about:  I don't have David 
Lloyd George's autobiography, but that quote looks a lot like stuff in Tom 
Segev's "One Palestine Complete".  He argues that the British supported the 
Zionists because they feared Jewish power.  The Israeli journalist Israel 
Shamir, whose maybe a little nuts, argues that they in fact had reason to fear 
the financial power of Jewish elites.  He claims that the British, Russians, 
and eventually Americans all sought to get world jewry on their side, with 
disastrous results each time.  I was looking for the article where he makes 
this argument on his website, but unfortunately all his articles have poetic 
names, so its difficult to figure out what is about what.  Poke around at:  
http://www.israelshamir.net/ 

Steven Sherman