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

[Charles or Doris Hahn]

Hi Jim,
I was really intrigued by the first part of Lerner's
piece; however I was unable to download the remainder.
 Could you try again?
Charles Hahn
--- Jim Rippey <jimripsr at qwest.net> wrote:

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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:
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>  "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."
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> --------------- Read the full article.  It isn't
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> Jim Rippey in Bellevue, NE
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