#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

3694.612 - 3721.259 Norman Finkelstein

Right. Would you agree Chaim Weizmann was a Zionist? Yeah. Okay. I believe they were. I believe they took their ideology seriously. It was the first generation. Just like with the Bolsheviks, the first generation was committed to an idea. By the 1930s, it was just pure realpolitik. The ideology went out the window. The first generation, I have no doubt about their convictions. Okay?