What Gandhi Said...

The recent bloody and violent crises in Gaza strip have had many of us watch, read, follow with incredulous horror and helpless impotence the fate meted out to the civilians of this region. At such a time, words of Gandhi on the Jewish presence in the middle east hold a special relevance. Thanks to Windmills for posting this important document.

When the World Sleeps....

When the world sleeps
from inky darkness deep
spirits emerge to creep
and softly begin to weep

awakening the ghosts of the dead
wispy forms, eyes smoldering red
floating silently to approach my bed
and begin a dance around the head

startling me from blissful slumber
with stomping feet and cracking thunder
to have me walk and follow them in wonder
leading me to land of death and plunder

rockets streak and bulldozers stomp
men with careless machine guns romp
looking for young or old to tromp
with flamboyant show of bravery and pomp

a bloody theater of foreign intrusion
orchestrated show of world collusion
of power, hate and direct elimination
of people, culture- a radical manifestation

I walked through streets of charred remains
blown body bits and bloody drains
hungry children, mothers tear stained
to steady drizzle of bullets rained

something inside me withered and died
and my spirit in inky darkness cried
following the line of ghosts to decide
on the next slumbering person they spied!

Liberating Palestine-A Gandhian Approach

Even as Palestine continues under the grips of violent occupation, and responds in kind with extreme bloody versions of 'Intifada', there is quiet revolution spreading across the country, which seeks to change the entire tenor of the country's struggle for liberation. Palestine's non-violent resistance is a Gandhian expression of its struggle for independence from Israel occupation, oppression, using methods of boycotts, civil protests, in a peaceful manner-towards just that end-peace in the region.

Check out the inspiring article by Aimee Ginsburg in Outlook:
www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?sid=1&fodname=20080317&fname=Palestine+(F)