10-08-2004, 11:23 PM
It is not only Hindus Gandhi - the spiritual imperialist - misled, he also had choice advice for jews.. In his essay "Zionism and Anti-Semitism", Gandhi suggested that Jews use Satyagraha to oppose Hitler's Nazi regime and its brutal, murderous oppression. Gandhi was well aware that Hitler might use this public opposition to initiate a general massacre of many Jews, including the elderly, women, and children. Yet, he goes to say
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The calculated violence of Hitler may even result in a general massacre of the Jews by way of his first answer to the declaration of such hostilities [Satyagraha]. But if the Jewish mind could be prepared for voluntary suffering, even the massacre I have imaged 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 God-fearing, 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.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The calculated violence of Hitler may even result in a general massacre of the Jews by way of his first answer to the declaration of such hostilities [Satyagraha]. But if the Jewish mind could be prepared for voluntary suffering, even the massacre I have imaged 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 God-fearing, 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.
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