Adonis Diaries

Discussion out of context: Non-violence movements, Gandhi, Nazi Germany, Colonial England, power of the media…

Someone in the TEDx audience said: “If Gandhi non-violent movement was carried out under Nazi Germany domination, Hitler would have harvested million of Indians without blinking an eyelid…If Gandhi was successful, it is because India was ruled by the “most civilized colonial power”…

How wrong! This argument is a fallacy and totally out of context.

One whispered: “most civilized colonial power my ass“.  Why?

First, one of the Generals of the British forces in India harvested more than a thousand peaceful Indians in 1914 for gathering in the courtyard of a Temple. The General closed the exits of the premises of the temple in Amritsar and machine-gunned the upset worshipers, simply for ” setting an example”.

The General received a slap on the hand and was shipped back to England.

Second, while Gandhi was carrying on his movement, England was in deep trouble in Palestine. The about one million Palestinians conducted a civil disobedience movement for over 4 years, starting in 1935, and England had to dispatch 100,000 soldiers to squash the movement.

During this period, England exercised and put in practice in Palestine the most horrific torture methods and military laws ever conceived in history. Why?

The Palestinians wanted municipal and parliamentary elections, and England refused any “democratic procedures” such as those applied by France in Syria and Lebanon since 1920. Why?

The Zionist movement refused any election until the Jews in Palestine become majority! (The Jew represented less than 20% in the 1930’s)

The irony is that Nazi Germany was observing and documenting all the British and French violent tactics in their colonies and didn’t have to even fine-tune these torture and mass execution operations.

Actually, if England and France let Nazi Germany consolidate its power, it was because they were scared of Germany making public their tactics in the colonies: Nazi Germany had a potent propaganda machine that could destabilize the colonies, if it wished.

If England let Gandhi proceed with his movement it was because simple math proscribed sending over 30 million British soldiers to India…while Germany was increasing steadily its economic and military power…

Nazi Germany didn’t even had to meddle in rounding up the Jews in France: Colonial France was more than expert in these operations, and better than Germany that had no colonies to practice upon.

France even sent all the files of every single French citizen to Berlin!

Note 1: In which context this post was inspired from?  https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/one-party-is-confronting-advancing-bulldozers-without-weapons-is-that-a-non-violent-activity-what-happened-in-the-town-of-budrus/

Note 2:  First Palestinian Intifada https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/first-palestinian-intifada-shaking-off-movement-1987-the-second-2000-the-third-2011/