[Dialogue] FW: Wisdom from Tikkun's Rabbi Lerner

[Jim Rippey]

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From: Jim Rippey [mailto:jimripsr at qwest.net] 
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 2:58 PM
To: 'Colleague Dialogue'
Tikkun's Rabbi Lerner makes perceptive remarks about Israel, Palestine
Jewish history and current Democrats "policy."  Here are exercpts:

 

 "The Zionist movement rejected Torah teachings and instead in effect
embraced the strategy of domination.... as if to say: "it is with power and
might that we will secure the Land of Israel and it is with power and might
that we will deal with our non-Jewish neighbors and the stranger who dwells
within our midst (in this case, the Palestinian people)..those who love the
Jewish people, and those who love America, are really those who are sounding
the alarm. But it's not enough to say what's wrong and what we are
against?that's why Isaiah quickly puts forth his vision of non-violence:
nations making war no more, beating their swords into ploughshares. And
that's what's missing today from the Democrats, the anti-war movement, the
progressive forces: a vision of what a world based on generosity would look
like, and how to get there."

--------------- Read the full article.  It isn't long.-------------

 

Jim Rippey in Bellevue, NE

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