Review of Panter-Brick’s Gandhi and the Middle East | Vedh P. Siv

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Gandhi and the Middle East
Jews, Arabs and Imperial Interests

by Simone Panter-Brick

I.B. Tauris
First Edition, Jan 2015
ISBN 9781784530228

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02 May 2025

Introduction

When India attained its independence in 1947, the nation was principled on two ideas --- peace and non-violence, for both, the nation and its people. These ideas were inspired from Mahatma Gandhi, one among the greatest freedom fighters and the Father of the Nation. Behind these, there was a longing for peace for all the people around the globe. As a result, the foreign policy adopted by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru inherited these values on the global matters and therefore, in its policy of non-alignment. Gandhi