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Non-Violence in Our Times

Posted by DAVID SCHRAUB, Assistant Editor in At TMV.
Mar 29th, 2009 | Comments

Gershom Gorenberg has an unbelievably good article in The Weekly Standard taking a look at the possibility of a genuinely non-violent Palestinian resistance — one set to the mold of Gandhi and King. He looks at the people advocating such a stance today, the reasons why it hasn’t manifested in the past, and the barriers to producing such a movement in the future. It is a stellar, nuanced, fascinating read that I can’t recommend highly enough.

I give some more specific thoughts at my own place, focusing on how the functional bleeding together of separate Palestinian political aspirations (good: ending the occupation, getting an independent state; bad: destroying Israel, expelling, killing, or subjugating the Jewish inhabitants) poses a specific and lethal barrier to the type of politics Gorenberg imagines.

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Don Quijote

Had Gandhi been using his non-violent tactics prior to WW1, the Brits would have put him against a wall and shot him DEAD. The only reason he was able to get away with his non-violence is that WW1 ruined the British Empire and that by the 30's it was on it's last legs.

Any Palestinian who is stupid enough to protest the Israeli occupation is going to die very young and very fast and without any media. It'll be a nice pointless death.

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