If middle-east people will follow the path of Mahatma Gandhi, will they win the struggle?

Answer 1

im not sure what ur question is but the world would be a better place if they did

Answer 2

What is needed is a vibrant leader who can lead the people to peace and prosperity.You never lead a life just reading a success story of Mahatma Gandhi in a different country.So long as a leader like Mahatma Gandhi is not with them to show the way,the struggle will be never ending.

Answer 3

This war is going to last another 20 years when we find an alternative to petrol. After that the world would not care where Middle east is of if they would want to follow Mahatma Gandhi or not.

Moreover its wrong to compare civilized Britishers to Murderous Jews.

Answer 4

Mahatma Ghandi is one of my heroes. In part his methodology worked on the sheer number of people he could command to protest peacefully.

Unfortunately this would not work in Palestine as the Israelis are not dependent on Palestinian taxes or labor for their country to function. Iran and Syria aren't occupied so peaceful protest at the USA's planned invasion are pointless. Iraq is a possibility but it is hard to see how the people could protest against the American invasion in an outright war-zone with an already trashed economy. The Americans are there primarily for the oil and are perfectly happy to fan the flames of ethnic division - the old axiom of divide and rule is in play and US politicians use the 'civil unrest' as an argument for the US occupation force to stay on.

My guess is that peaceful protest in Iraq would be broken up with US special forces and paid insurgents wreaking even more havoc and hardship om the people with car bombings, sniper fire and deliberate economic deprivation.

Answer 5

Oh boy! Firstly, Its worth asking what exactly is the struggle you are refering to!

Lets try to tackle this logically, Gandhi was trying to gain the independance of india... he succerded because of three very important reasons:

1. The British had long before desided to grant india independance after its sterling service to the crown in two world wars and due to its rapidly evolving sence of nationhood.

2. The British in India at this time were not inclined to shoot out of hand anyone who challenged their authority... if a bunch of palistinians started demonstrating in central Isreal you would be picking up the remains with a bucket and a shovel!!!!

3. The Wider World (particualy The USA) was very keen on ending empires all over the globeafter 1945, hense we see the withdrawel of Britain, Portugal, Spain, France and the netherlands from their colonies over the next decades.

Now, In the Middle East you have three very seperate struggles.

1. JEW VS ARAB.... short of the extintion of one race or the other there is NO HOPE of these two sides sorting out there differances...EVER... whether they wear a towl and sandles or not!

2. Shite vs Sunnie.... look, these two were at each others throats since the grandsons of the prophet fell out and both decided they were both going to represent the true path of islam... Again i say that sandles and a towel will not help!

3. The middle east vs the West.... This is largely a load of rather smelly Poo, created by the media and played on by alarmist politicians who are trying to sell you something! The West gets on fine with Saudi, Jordan, Egypt, Packistan, UAE and Turkey... we dont actualy get on badly with Iran, Libya, Iraq (not incl. the current mess) and the other so called rougue state's... europe, america, russia and china have been trading happily with them for years.

The main problem in the region is that you have a number of small sub groups who hate each other with a passion...NOT WHOLE RACES JUST SMALL GROUPS>>>DO NOT EVER LET YOURSELF FOR ONE MOMENT THINK THAT ITS A CASE OF THE WHOLE REGION BEING A PROBLEM>>>IT ISNT!!!!!

I think i can now move on, If the small sub groups all started to wear a bath towel and sandles and sing "lets give peace a chance" then i think that you might just see a change in the region... also it would be really emusing to see Bin Laden so attired before we find and kill the #$%$#@^@#^$^ .

I hope this helps....blasted spell check is on the fritz! sorry about poor spelling, never my strong point

Answer 6

The Principle of Non Violence will certainly work and its proven more than once across the world. The indian model is emulated by Nelson mandela in South africa and by Martin Luther King in US.

But that is prescribed for HUMANS. You have misapplied it seems.

Answer 7

Absolutely!!! they could also follow the heroic path that millions of African Americans took during the civil rights movement.

Civil disobedience, not anarchy.

Answer 8

Most people do not live in reality, but in a conceptualized image of
> it.They look at reality from within a limited perception of themselves
> and the other. They look at the world from within their beliefs. The
> identification of the ego with mental images and external things like
> arabic or jews descent or nationalities, religious superiority causes
> humans to get attached to and dependent on things outside themselves.
>
> Deep down, every human being knows that no form is lasting, that all
> forms pass away. Mahatma Gandhi and others, give us example of passive
> nonresistance because what you resist ,persist. The ego always knows a
> feeling of insecurity. Many people, not only in middle eastern region
> but people who lives everywhere, live in a permanent state of unease,
> restlessness, boredom, fear, and dissatisfaction and this is the cause
> of not knowing who you really are.
>
> To survive, the ego needs a great deal of attention.
> It is addicted to
> power, recognition and conflict, and stays busy comparing itself to
> other egos. It sees itself as separate from the other and the world.
> It thinks in terms of “better than,” “less than” and higher than” and
> lives by the grace of attack and defense. , “Egos differ only on the
> outside. Deep down, they are all the same. They live on
> identification and separation.
> Every ego is continuously fighting to survive, trying to protect and
> expand itself. However the ego manifests itself, the hidden, driving
> force behind it is always the same: the need to differentiate itself,
> to be special, to be the boss; the need for power, for attention, for
> more. And, of course, the need for a feeling of separation: that is,
> for opposition, for enemies.”
>
>
> The more you derive your identity from your thoughts and beliefs, the
> more you become cut off from yourself, the other, and the world around
> you. Even (or in particular) many so-called religious people are
> stuck on this level.
> They equate “truth” with their thoughts about reality. And because
> they identify totally with their thoughts, they claim, in an
> unconscious attempt to protect their identity, to be the only ones who
> know the truth.
>
> The disease- calls it “the insanity”- humanity is suffering from is an
> utterly crazy self-image. Humans have forgotten their essence-pure
> consciousness-and identify instead with things that are not us: our
> mental concepts of ourselves. We are pure spirit incarnated into form,
> meaning.
> “there is only one of us”.
>

Answer 9

No. They tried that but still got sanctions put on them and a war. America invades Iraq regardless of what they do.

Answer 10

FIRST you would have to convince them
that mohmet was a Lunatic....

The struggle between Shiia's and Sunnii's
is AWFUL ...


best of luck ....