Gandhi on Israel

Submitted by M.A.Sastry (India), Jun 21, 2011 at 10:11

I subscribe to the views of Daniel Pipes. Even the most revered and supposedly knowledgeable persons have misconceptions about Israel. The views of Gandhi (Mahatma?) are an example. He said,

"My sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and in the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after their return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?"

I think something went wrong with Gandhi.

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