The Missing Mahatma
April 2, 2009
Searching for a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King in the West Bank.
by Gershom Gorenberg
04/06/2009, Volume 014, Issue 28
They marched southward from Ramallah one windy morning in March 2012. Sheikh Nasser a-Din al-Masri led them–a slim man with a short black beard that half-hid a puckered scar on his neck. They filled the road to Jerusalem, a long procession of men, women, and children wearing white robes to show they were on a pilgrimage and that they had no pockets in which to hide weapons. They carried their flat bread in clear plastic bags for the same reason. A Reuters reporter said they numbered 20,000. They chanted as they walked.