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

4576.363 - 4597.135 Steven Bonnell (Destiny)

That was one of the major motivators, the idea to work with Britain and France on a military operation against Arabs. But then the question, again, I go back to, if that is true, if Ben-Gurion, if the early Israel saw themselves as a Western fashion nation, How could we possibly imagine that they would have engaged in the transfer of some 400,000 Arabs after accepting the partition plan?