As for the Palestinian Gandhi, lately we've seen what happens when Palestinians adopt—rightly so, by the way—the strategies of non-violence. A clash with the IDF at the Syrian border has left 20 dead. A very one-sided "clash,: since according to reports, the closest the protesters had to weapons were some rocks; if someone else were doing the shooting, we would call that a "massacre."
YES. Thank you. I get sick to my stomach every time a "fair-minded" (and almost always white) liberal says that they'd be more sympathetic to the Palestinians, or that the Palestinian resistance would be more effective if they'd just sit there and get machine gunned down or ran over by tanks. Which is part of the whole reason I soured on the peace movement* in the mid-00s, a lot of it is just built around appropriated myths about the American civil rights movement or Ghandi, in a kind "oh geez I hope peace happens someday" fashion that's all of convenient for global northerners to adopt without really recognizing how the unequal distribution of power and wealth that they directly benefit from causes all of this.**
*In America at least.
**I don't know if you're still doing peace work, but please don't take that as a swipe against your activism, I know you don't think that way. I'm mostly just ranting against some of the more middle class, '60s veteran activists I worked with.
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As for the Palestinian Gandhi, lately we've seen what happens when Palestinians adopt—rightly so, by the way—the strategies of non-violence. A clash with the IDF at the Syrian border has left 20 dead. A very one-sided "clash,: since according to reports, the closest the protesters had to weapons were some rocks; if someone else were doing the shooting, we would call that a "massacre."
YES. Thank you. I get sick to my stomach every time a "fair-minded" (and almost always white) liberal says that they'd be more sympathetic to the Palestinians, or that the Palestinian resistance would be more effective if they'd just sit there and get machine gunned down or ran over by tanks. Which is part of the whole reason I soured on the peace movement* in the mid-00s, a lot of it is just built around appropriated myths about the American civil rights movement or Ghandi, in a kind "oh geez I hope peace happens someday" fashion that's all of convenient for global northerners to adopt without really recognizing how the unequal distribution of power and wealth that they directly benefit from causes all of this.**
*In America at least.
**I don't know if you're still doing peace work, but please don't take that as a swipe against your activism, I know you don't think that way. I'm mostly just ranting against some of the more middle class, '60s veteran activists I worked with.