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Condemnation of Itamar Massacre

By Rabbi Michael Lerner | March 13, 2011

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the murder of five Israelis in a terrorist attack in the northern West Bank, and we offer our condolences to their loved ones and to the Israeli people. There is no possible justification for the killing of parents and children in their home. We call on the Palestinian Authority to unequivocally condemn this terrorist attack and for the perpetrators of this heinous crime to be held accountable.

About Rabbi Michael Lerner

Rabbi Michael Lerner holds a Ph.D. in philosophy (1972) and a second Ph.D. in psychology (1977), is editor of Tikkun www.tikkun.org, executive director of the Institute for Labor and Mental Health, rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue-Without-Walls in Berkeley, chair of the international Network of Spiritual Progressives, and author of 12 books, most recently Revolutionary Love published by the University of California Press (more info about this book at www.tikkun.org/lj). Lerner was recently described by Professor Cornel West of Harvard U. as “one of the most significant prophetic public intellectuals and spiritual leaders of our generation” and Keith Ellison, Attorney General of the State of Minnesota, says: “The caring society is the only realistic path for humanity to survive, and in Revolutionary Love Rabbi Lerner lays out a powerful and compassionate plan for building that caring society.” Talking about his book Revolutionary Love, Gloria Steinem, a founding editor of Ms. Magazine, says “Michael Lerner takes the universal qualities wrongly diminished as ‘feminine’—caring, kindness, empathy, love—and dares to make them guides to a new kind of politics that can challenge the cruelty, competition, and dominance wrongly elevated as ‘masculine.’ Revolutionary Love opens our minds and hearts to a fully human way of living and governing.”

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tom hussey on March 14, 2011 at 5:49 pm said:

I, too, condemn the murder of children, as I think all civilized people do, but it appears to me that Rabbi Lerner has rushed to judgment. I have not seen a clear statement by any Palestinian group claiming responsibility for the attacks; clearly, in view of Netanyahu’s call for “revenge settlements,” it is the settler movement that benefits most by fixing the blame on the Palestinians. If a Palestinian did do this, all settlers should be afraid to sleep at night for it shows some chinks in Israeli security.
David on April 6, 2011 at 8:36 am said:

My guess is thatbthere is some nearby Arab village protecting the identity of teh murderers