God, Guns & Israel

God, Guns & Israel: Britain, The First World War And The Jews In The Holy Land by Jill Hamilton, Sutton Pub Ltd, 2005. 

David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George was the main force behind the Palestinian Mandate and the Balfour Declaration. Chaim Weizmann had persuaded Balfour to support the cause of Zionism. Lloyd George believed that the Jews should have a country of their own, so he created Palestine out of South Syria. 

British Protestant Outside the Anglican Church

Hamilton explains why Lloyd George was so interested in the Jews. Lloyd George was a poor boy from Wales and an advocate for the disestablishment of the (Anglican) Church of England. The Anglicans ran Great Britain, and the other Protestant denominations, to say nothing of the Catholics, were treated as second class citizens. Lloyd George had an affection for the Jews, because he had spent a great deal of time reading the Old Testament when he was growing up. The non-Anglican Protestants had more interest in the Old Testament, than did the Anglicans or Roman Catholics.