To Whom Should Jews Listen?

… At what point is it okay for Israel and for Jews to fight anti-Semites such as Hamas, Iran, or al Qaeda terrorists? And who are we to listen to? Who should we take advice from? Do we listen to the United Nations, to Obama or to Gandhi?

… Sometimes we shouldn’t listen to anyone of them. You say, but surely some great person, leader or institution ought to have good advice.

… But I say, why must that be so? Here’s proof.

… During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to surrender to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the Holocaust was known, he criticized Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as they did in Warsaw and Treblinka. “The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife,” he said. “They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.”