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British interest in Zionism rested on three principles: unease with the Jews as an element in British political and economic life, evangelical Protestant interest in claims over the “Holy Land,” and—perhaps most crucially—a sense of the possibilities Zionist settlement opened up for imperial expansion.

Within its first two decades, the League involved itself in several other plans for ethnically based mass transfer: forced population exchange between Greece and Turkey, large-scale Armenian resettlement in the border areas of Syria, redistribution of territory
by ethnicity in Palestine, and the relocation of European Jews to any available empty space