Considering the current situation of the Gaza conflict, the Israelis will end up leaving Gaza. And this will only result in more groups in Palestinians that are more violent than Hamas. The bloodshed will be substantially worse. With a violent revolution, this may lead to chemical weapons, radiological weapons and even biological weapons. For these extremists, these weapons are becoming easier to find and develop, and they are willing to engage in worse ways to kill each other. And so a non-violent protest would prevent all this, or at least heavily minimize it. Man is a self-governing being, and self-government includes the power to commit as many errors as to set them right as often as they are made. Gandhi was a strong believer in Independence and felt that as a people, we should all be self-reliant. A man who refuses to be self-governed asks to be controlled by another force. "I hold that self-government is not an end, but only a means to good government. And true democracy is what promotes the good welfare of the people" (Gandhi p. 146). And dealing with the current issues of the Palestinian conflict, creating their own independence and having self-reliance as their own state might prove to be a solution for Palestinians. Of the available options in finding a solution to the Palestinian conflict, the most practical one that most of the world seems to gravitate towards is the two-state solution. The two-state solution would allow for both Israelis and Palestinians to have their own independent states. Going off of Gandhi's ideology, this solution would be in support of self-reliance and independence. Gandhi believed that being self-reliant and independence allowed us to be free, "being liberated in an internal, spiritual, and psychological sense, as being from from illusion and ignorance, free to gain greater self-knowledge and consequent self-mastery" (Gandhi p.
