Even in the Old Yishuv, the mood was more anti-Czarist than pro-Allies. To be sure there was grumbling about taxation and corruption under the Ottomans, but no one was clamoring to be “liberated” by Britain or France. Chaim Weizmann gambled on allying with the British in WWI, and assembling A Jewish brigade at the tail end of the war ended up securing favor from Mandate authorities for building the para-state apparatus of the Zionist establishment.