This was the British Empire with full momentum. I expect the no-records-exist briefings started with explaining who the Jews were, and how installing them in th

This was the British Empire with full momentum. I expect the no-records-exist briefings started with explaining who the Jews were, and how installing them in this part of the Ottoman Empire would disrupt the ability of the Arabs to reorganise themselves for generations; securing British hegemony. There is a reason that the Chinese ended up with the paranoid and insular government that they have - everything else got torn apart by the West. If you look in Africa, the Middle East or the Americas you can see the tattered shreds of former empires that didn't take the British threat (et, al - Europeans really) seriously enough. They were really good at dismantling things.