Zahalka: Even before I was born, before it was even conceived and started to take form, the idea of a nation-Jewish state received criticism which is also relevant today. In 1939 the Zionist congress which convened at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City decided to establish a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine. A year later the Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt writes — who was a Zionist in her way, she wasn’t an anti-Zionist, she fled from the Nazis in Germany and settled in the U.S. — she wrote an article that expressed a staunch opposition to an idea [of a national-Jewish state], she said you offer the Palestinians, residents of the land, a second class citizenship. This is what she wrote in 1941.

Feiglin: Did she say the word Palestinians?

Zahalka: Palestine. Of course. Palestine Eretz Israel. That is how it was called and written in English. She wrote in English not in Hebrew.

Feiglin: I’d be happy to see the source.

Zahalka: OK, I suggest you read her. You are of course in her exact opposite world.

Feiglin: I only ask to see the source.

Zahalka: Because she has a human world view, against totalitarianism, ultra-nationalism, so listen a little, learn a little.

Other: Are you sitting here as a reviewer?

Feiglin: Just because, just interested ….