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“Leader’s way for a glitter peace to be achieved in the Middle East!”
Everybody agrees that the people of the Middle East have been living a long overactive life. As time passes, crises are multiplied and no one knows when things will change to a brighter fate. Looking back in history, studying the autobiographies of great leaders, I discovered the Indian liberation leader Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi devoted his life to India and Indians, and succeeded with his people to free their land without bloodshed. Gandhi’s first and last creed was ‘no violence, love, and truth’. He never stopped reminding his people with these three values.
Great Britain occupied India for a long time, controlled Indians’ lives, and enforced taxes. However, Gandhi’s hope to free India never left him. “Ahimsa” - nonviolence, and “Satyagraha” - holding in the truth, were not just two words Gandhi was saying. The words were translated into actions so that Indians carried duties of never putting any hate or violence into the conflict, of acting with love, and never forgetting your enemy anywhere, anytime, and under any condition. So what were the actions that Indians took to make such important social changes? For instance, Gandhi asked them not to trade anything from Britain, to burn British clothes and start making their own clothes themselves. Having Indians going to the beach to make salt from the seawater was Gandhi’s great solution to avoid paying the salt tax to Britain.
When a Hindu father came to Gandhi asking him what to do after an Indian Muslim had killed his son, Gandhi simply told him to look for a Muslim kid who had no parents and raise him up as his son. It may be a strange story but yet the deep meaning was that Gandhi wanted to grow love in Indians’ hearts therefore growing love towards their enemies would come easily.
When Indians were helping Britain in the Boer War in the last 1800s, Gandhi volunteered and recruited an Indian ambulance corps to serve with the British army. Although Britain was his physical enemy, Gandhi used the situation wisely.
Gandhi succeeded to win his homeland back. His wisdom was behind every grand aim. His way of acting should give us and our leaders the inspiration to work the same way, for a better Middle East.
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