"Recall Gandhi's rather distressing counsel to Jews of the Holocaust: they should
commit suicide rather than resist Nazi tyranny. Regardless of the moral fiber that supported Gandhi's pacifist convictions, the proper moral response to the Jews--indeed, to any oppressed people--is that of a wise man uttered three millennia ago:
If you faint in the day of adversity,
your strength is small.
Rescue those who are being taken away to death;
hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,
and will he not repay man according to his work?
(Proverbs 24:10-12 ESV)"
-J. Daryl Charles and Timothy Demy
"Recall Gandhi's rather distressing counsel to Jews of the Holocaust: they should commit suicide rather than resist Nazi tyranny. Regardless of the moral fiber that supported Gandhi's pacifist convictions, the proper moral response to the Jews--indeed, to any oppressed people--is that of a wise man uttered three millennia ago:
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