Arun Ghandi, grandson of the Mahatma, is an active peace advocate, and Palestinian sympathizer to the point of anti Semitism. In this article he writes:

Jewish Identity Can’t Depend on Violence

Jewish identity in the past has been locked into the holocaust experience — a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of a community can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends. The holocaust was the result of the warped mind of an individual who was able to influence his followers into doing something dreadful. But, it seems to me the Jews today not only want the Germans to feel guilty but the whole world must regret what happened to the Jews. The world did feel sorry for the episode but when an individual or a nation refuses to forgive and move on the regret turns into anger.

The Jewish identity in the future appears bleak. Any nation that remains anchored to the past is unable to move ahead and, especially a nation that believes its survival can only be ensured by weapons and bombs. In Tel Aviv in 2004 I had the opportunity to speak to some Members of Parliament and Peace activists all of whom argued that the wall and the military build-up was necessary to protect the nation and the people. In other words, I asked, you believe that you can create a snake pit — with many deadly snakes in it — and expect to live in the pit secure and alive? What do you mean? they countered. Well, with your superior weapons and armaments and your attitude towards your neighbors would it not be right to say that you are creating a snake pit? How can anyone live peacefully in such an atmosphere? Would it not be better to befriend those who hate you? Can you not reach out and share your technological advancement with your neighbors and build a relationship?

Apparently, in the modern world, so determined to live by the bomb, this is an alien concept. You don’t befriend anyone, you dominate them. We have created a culture of violence (Israel and the Jews are the biggest players) and that Culture of Violence is eventually going to destroy humanity.

HO Comment Number 1- The holocaust was NOT simply the result of one warped person. It was the result of a continent numbed by a hatred for 2000 years by religious institutions that taught that the Jews were sub humans deserving of nothing but contempt and brutality. The same message is delivered today by mosques all over the world.

HO Comment Number 2- For 2000 years the Jews in Europe had no army, no weapons, no nation, and engaged in no organized violence. We know what the result was.

Ghandi, like the long history of anti Semites before him, simply rationalizes those who hate by demonizing those who are hated. Doing so under the guise of a peace activist makes him no less detestable and destructive that the hate mongers before him.

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