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People should know who has committed what crimes.
This will show what is the truth and what is the untruth
and the poison will come to the surface. Just now people
only make guesses while the poison works within.
Mahatma Gandhi (14 April 1947)

“I am not anti-English; I am not anti-British; I am not anti-any government, but I am antiuntruth—
anti-humbug, and anti-injustice.”
Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Writings, edited and with an introduction
and notes by Judith M. Brown (Oxford: 2008), p. 349.

On Non-violence:
“Fight violence with nonviolence if you can, and if you can’t do that, fight violence by any means, even if it means your utter extinction. But in no case should you leave your hearths and homes to be looted and burnt.”
“Speech at Goalundo” (6 November 1946)

[Gandhi] categorized forceful resistance in the face of impossible odds—a woman fending off a rapist with slaps and scratches, an unarmed man resisting torture by a gang, or Polish armed self-defense to the Nazi aggression—as “almost nonviolence” because it was in essence symbolic and acted more as a fillip to the spirit to overcome fear and allow for a dignified death; it registered “a refusal to bend before overwhelming might in the full knowledge that it means certain death.”

Question: What do you feel is the most acceptable solution to the Palestine problem?
Mahatma Gandhi: The abandonment wholly by the Jews of terrorism and other forms of violence.
(1 June 1947)

The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (Ahmedabad), v. 88, p. 48.