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தனது “ஹரிஜன்” நவம்பர் 26. 1938 தேதியிட்ட இதழில்
காந்திஜி இவ்வாறு எழுதினார் –

” ….ஆங்கிலேயர்களுக்கு எப்படி
இங்கிலாந்து சொந்தமானதோ,

ஃப்ரென்சுக்காரர்களுக்கு எப்படி
ஃப்ரான்ஸ் சொந்தமானதோ,

அதே போல் –
பாலஸ்தீனம் அரேபியர்களுக்கு சொந்தமானது…

பாலஸ்தீனத்தை பிளந்து அரேபியர்களின் மீது
யூதர்களை திணிப்பது,
மனிதாபிமானமற்றது மட்டுமல்லாமல்
முற்றிலும் தவறான செயல் ……”

இது குறித்த இந்தியா டுடே நாளிதழின்
விரிவான ஒரு ஆங்கில கட்டுரையிலிருந்து சில பகுதிகள் கீழே –

” Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense
that England belongs to the English or France
to the French and it is wrong and inhuman
to impose the Jews on the Arabs…”

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In fact, if it took 45 years after the independence
for India to allow Israeli Embassy in New Delhi,
it was because of India’s principled solidarity
with the Palestinian cause that was against the
forced settlement of Israelis in the Palestinian territory.

And the origin behind this principled stand can be traced back to Mahatma Gandhi, our Father of the
Nation, who believed that Israelis could settle in Palestine only with the permission from Arabs
and it was wrong for them to enter with the might
of the British gun.

Writing in Harijan on November 26, 1938,
Mahatma Gandhi says that his sympathies are with
the Jews some of whom have been his friends
since his days in South Africa.

Thus, he knows about the age-long persecution
of the Jews. He refers to the Jews as the
untouchables of Christianity, like the untouchables
of Hinduism and that religion is used in their persecution, as was happening then with the Jews
in Germany.

But, he draws a line here saying his sympathy
for the Jews cannot blind him to the requirements
of justice.

He writes in his write-up, The Jews, in Harijan,
“The cry for the national home for the Jews
does not make much appeal to me.”

He says that –
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense
that England belongs to the English or France
to the French and it is wrong and inhuman to
impose the Jews on the Arabs.”

Mahatma Gandhi says the settlement of the Jews
in the Palestinian territory is akin to a
religious act that rules out use of force,
“The Palestine of the Biblical conception is
not a geographical tract. It is in their hearts.

But if they must look to the Palestine of
geography as their national home, it is wrong
to enter it under the shadow of the British gun.

A religious act cannot be performed with the
aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle
in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs.”

Mahatma Gandhi argues that the Jewish people are
the citizens of the world and they should be
treated as such, a Jew born in France as French,
a Jew born in Germany as German. He advises
the German Jews to use the civil movement
through non-violence to take on the
German persecution.

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https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/mahatma-gandhi-israelis-palestine-modis-israel-visit-1021894-2017-07-01
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