On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:00:21 +0900 CeJ <jann...@gmail.com> writes: > http://www.twf.org/News/Y2001/0815-GandhiZionism.html > > excerpt: > >
> Gandhi's response to Zionism and the Palestine question contains > different layers of meaning, ranging from an ethical position to > political realism. What is interesting is that Gandhi, who firmly > believed in the inseparability of religion and politics, had been > consistently and vehemently rejecting the cultural and religious > nationalism of the Zionists. > > What follows then is that he was not for religion functioning as a > political ideology; rather, he wanted religion to provide an > ethical > dimension to nation-State politics. Such a difference was vital as > far > as Gandhi was concerned. A uni-religious justification for claiming > a > nation-State, as in the case of Zionism, did not appeal to him in > any > substantial sense. I suspect that Gandhi's position on that is by no means not unrelated to his own advocacy of a secular India. Although Gandhi was a very devout Hindu, he was emphatic in support of India being a secular state in which Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians etc. would all have equal rights. Following independence, this would put him on a collision course with the right-wing Hindu nationalists who would eventually assasinate him. I also suspect that Gandhi would not have been too suprised that the BJP (direct political descendents of the sort of Hindu nationalists who assasinated him) have been strongly pro-Israel. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant ____________________________________________________________ Project Management Online Nation's Leading Online PMP Course. Get Certified-Find Out More Now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4c276ff55384314fcdm03vuc _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
