[r9etb]

I had never heard of Ghandi's treatise on "the Jews". I was awestruck -- and sickened -- by the following:

But if the Jewish mind could be prepared for voluntary suffering, even the massacre I have imagined could be turned into a day of thanksgiving and joy that Jehovah had wrought deliverance of the race even at the hands of the tyrant. For to the godfearing, death has no terror. It is a joyful sleep to be followed by a waking that would be all the more refreshing for the long sleep.

What an amazingly horrible irony that turned out to be....

[wideawake]

Gandhi seems to have been too ignorant to realize that nonviolence only works as a strategy against English speakers who believe in representative government.

Nonviolent resistance does not work against Nazis or Communists or Islamists.

Gandhi himself was never in danger of losing his life to the British "oppressor" - when he was murdered he was murdered by a fellow Hindu.

Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis whether they obeyed the laws or didn't obey the laws. And Gandhi was either too stupid or too self-righteous to realize that.

[benjamin032]

It must have been tough to stand up against the Brits. It is a sad irony, but he had no idea of the scale of the massacre that was in store for the Jews. His grandson on the other hand, has no plausible denyability.

[Tolik]

I am sure that there were many people who understood even back then (1938!) how amazingly horribly asinine his recipe was. Anyway, it was 1938, what is our excuse now? Why would anybody follow his advise when we know what happened?