tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15627892.post5200027540208367096..comments2024-03-29T07:16:53.040-04:00Comments on Daled Amos: The Middle East Media Sampler 3/16/2012: New York Times: What Rockets?Daled Amoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17646808702899584547noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15627892.post-76889550363704579162012-03-16T11:46:19.441-04:002012-03-16T11:46:19.441-04:00The quote comes from Mandela's autobiography, ...The quote comes from <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=RHwLqVrnXgIC&pg=PT143&lpg=PT143&dq=%22nonviolence+was+not+a+moral+principle+but+a+strategy;+there+is+no+moral+goodness+in+using+an+ineffective+weapon.%22&source=bl&ots=V1WtEk5ZrP&sig=Rieg0Xyowpk5uCMHd-_U6CUqKZE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sV9jT7SVAsqIsgKJosWcCw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22nonviolence%20was%20not%20a%20moral%20principle%20but%20a%20strategy%3B%20there%20is%20no%20moral%20goodness%20in%20using%20an%20ineffective%20weapon.%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">Mandela's autobiography</a>, where he differentiates between the British with Gandhi and himself vs. the SA government.Daled Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17646808702899584547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15627892.post-2345135188139737482012-03-16T11:43:19.351-04:002012-03-16T11:43:19.351-04:00In The Practical Nelson Mandela, Bill Keller write...In <a href="http://www.racematters.org/thepracticalmrmandela.htm" rel="nofollow">The Practical Nelson Mandela</a>, Bill Keller writes:<br /><br />In the most dramatic of many tacks, Mr. Mandela, in 1953, was among the first African National Congress leaders to argue for a shift from peaceful civil disobedience to armed insurrection. Even after his colleagues rejected violence as premature, he arranged an unauthorized mission to China to request weapons for the cause. The A.N.C. leadership finally endorsed armed struggle in 1961, just a few weeks after Mr. Mandela and his compatriots, in the course of winning acquittal on charges of treason, had insisted that nonviolence was an inalterable principle of the organization. <b>"For me," he writes, "nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon."</b><br /><br />If accurate, then perhaps Mandela is more similar to Abbas than to Arafat--but that is not saying much.Daled Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17646808702899584547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15627892.post-67552335401289973902012-03-16T11:25:46.350-04:002012-03-16T11:25:46.350-04:00The ANC officially disavowed violence decades befo...The ANC officially disavowed violence decades before the end of apartheid. You can look it up.Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.com