Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? The non-violent heroin, the passive resister? The Palestinian who withstands blow after blow from Israel’s industry of occupation, yet refuses to strike back?

It is a fairly popular brain-teaser tossed around amongst orientalist’s; the Thomas Friedman’s, Nick Kristof’s and other backseat taxi-cab reporters.

The Palestinian prophet’s of peace are many. They have been jailed, taken captive by Israeli forces in the darkest of hours, routinely denied due process by Israeli courts, shot at close range with tear-gas canisters, rubber bullets and live ammunition. Their villages have been ransacked, their homes occupied by Israeli settlers armed and often trained by the Israeli military. Palestinian non-violent resisters have gone on hunger-strikes, most recently of which was Khader Adnan, who is entering his 61st day on hunger-strike, who lays emaciated, dying, and chained to an Israeli hospital bed.

Read More: http://frustratedarab.com/2012/02/16/where-is-the-palestinian-gandhi-and-other-stale-adages

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Roqayah Chamseddine is a US based Lebanese-American journalist, commentator and international activist; she was a member of the first Gaza Freedom March which took place in December of 2009 in Cairo, Egypt.