DY – you wrote ” the Zionists theme of Kochi veotzem yodi” So you were indeed talking about Zionists rather than Zionism.
But lets assume it was an honest error.
I disagree completely, but I hear where you could look at Zionism from an angle that could be contrived to be described as Kochi… but even in the poetic dreamings of the early Zionists, it was a matter of will to accomplish in the future (for example, im tirzu, ein zo agada) , rather than “see what I have done” in the past, which is what Kochi is about. Once Zionism translated from an articulated dream into a reality that needed to be fought for, it is my opinion, derived from talking to the people who actually fought for it, that any vestige of Kochi…, if there even was one to begin with, went straight out the window as the miracles of Israel’s victories were revealed.
I submit that it is simpler, more logical, and more in line with how Zionism is articulated today, and for several decades, if not most of a century, that for those Zionists who are not motivated as Religious Zionists are, it is much more a matter of “ein somchin al hanes, but we will embrace what is given,” than it is of Kochi…