Abstract

The clouds have parted, at least for the moment, in the Arab-Israeli conflict. A newly elected Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has reached out to a hawkish Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, now reborn as a cautious peacemaker. Jails have emptied, Israel has ceased destroying homes of alleged terrorists, and Islamic radicals have heeded calls for an armed truce. One may reasonably hope that antagonists on both sides will seize the moment to think afresh about the cycle of violence and reprisal that has deepened and prolonged their conflict. In that spirit, I have tried to answer the pertinent question: How might India's great apostles of nonviolence Mohandas Gandhi, a Hindu, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a Muslim expound the benefits of a farewell to arms to today's tired and bloodied belligerents? The provisional truce and fresh interest in passive resistance for addressing the Palestinian-Israeli question justify a reminder of the arguments advanced by two South Asian leaders who not so

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