tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11324278.post4320208102588834744..comments2024-03-13T19:19:04.945+02:00Comments on All Your Beis: Peace in our timeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11324278.post-5674296391674853012008-02-14T21:59:00.000+02:002008-02-14T21:59:00.000+02:00well said, thank you.also:http://www.haaretz.com/h...well said, thank you.<BR/><BR/>also:<BR/>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=950143&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14Beisrunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12091613751643079470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11324278.post-75703934854097443882008-02-14T21:09:00.000+02:002008-02-14T21:09:00.000+02:00In the '30s after Gandhi made these and other stat...In the '30s after Gandhi made these and other statements, specifically the suggestion that the Jews should non-violently resist the Nazis, Martin Buber, later known in Israel as a peacenik leftist and an advocate of a binational state (with Magnes), responded. Buber, corresponding with Gandhi, replied that there was a fundamental difference between Britain and Nazi Germany. A British military officer or government official who was responsible for an atrocity would ultimately be called on the carpet because government policy is subject to review by Parliament. Hitler, OTOH, had dismissed the Reichstag and ruled by fiat. A German officer committing an atrocity would and did receive a medal! In addition the world judges the Jews differently than it does others. On both counts Gandhi was found wanting. I participated in an off-campus study group of Hebrew U. students in 1972 who read this correspondence. In 1987/8 at the beginning of the first intifada there was a character named Mubarak Awad who claimed to be carrying on the Palestinian struggle based on Gandhi's methods. It was bogus. The struggle included throwing potentially lethal rocks at cars as well as giving moral support to the "armed struggle" in parallel. My friend David Bedein, who was in the same study group, interviewed Awad, who said that the Jews should not have come to Palestine but should have resisted the Nazis in Europe. David responded with the reply of Buber. Awad gave a satanic grin and said the Jews still should have followed Gandhi. Six million were not enough.goyisherebbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09380171052449799815noreply@blogger.com