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Yes, the British performed massacres, but they could never have made life so miserable for every Indian as the Israelis have done for every Palestinian man, woman, and child. So nonviolence was a viable option in India. The Palestinian population is small enough to control and grind away at. If there were a Palestinian Gandhi, we simply wouldn't hear about him, or he would be targetted by the Israelis, or run over by a bulldozer as the current non-violent activists. There are plenty of non-violent activists in Palestine, and I admire them greatly, but we don't hear much about them. We only hear about the crazy suicide bombers which fuel our stereotypes of Palestinians as an entirely barbaric people who just hate because they are taught/born to hate.
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You don't understand Gandhi. Gandhi lifted people up. He encouraged both Muslim and Hindu Indians to protest cooperatively and nonviolently as a group. Example: The Indian boycott of British textiles.
The population of the West Bank and Gaza is 3.3 million.
The Arab population of Israel is 1 million.
The Jewish population of Israel is 5.4 million.
And your explanation for why the palestinians can't respond to Israel nonviolently is because there are not enough of them?
Find me an example of a Palestinian who is on a hunger strike until Hamas stops their violence. That is the Gandhian way. Gandhi said: 'We promise not to be violent to our enemies. We do not promise not to be violent to ourselves.'
As long as the Palestinian people support the violent methods of Hamas, they will reap violence--that's what Gandhi predicted.
If Native American Indians were carrying out homicide bombings against US cities, do you think that they would have lasted as long as the Palestinians have?
The fact is that if the Palestinians had responded to the Israelis non-violently, they would have had their state 30 years ago.
But to distance myself from others on this thread, I find LGF to be racist, jingoistic, reprehensible warmongers.