Saturday, January 26, 2008

Arun Gandhi Quits Peace Institute in Flap Over Blog Posting - washingtonpost.com

Arun Gandhi Quits Peace Institute in Flap Over Blog Posting
The grandson of Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi resigned yesterday as president of the board of a conflict resolution institute after writing an online essay on a Washington Post blog calling Jews and Israel "the biggest players" in a global culture of violence.

In his resignation letter to the board of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, founder Arun Gandhi wrote that his Jan. 7 essay "was couched in language that was hurtful and contrary to the principles of nonviolence. My intention was to generate a healthy discussion on the proliferation of violence. Clearly I did not achieve my goal. Instead, unintentionally, my words have resulted in pain, anger, confusion and embarrassment."

Apparently, many on the left feel that Mr. Ghandi has been wronged by the Jewish machine. Michael Leeden doesn't think so.

I hope that most of you left-leaning Democrats, especially you pseudo-liberal Jewish guilt-ridden Democrats, remember that it will be the Left who will abandon Israel first, and then stand idly by as the Jews are pushed into the sea so as not disturb the road to Universal Health Care...

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