Viewpoint: The best way to deal with ISIS

Rabbo Lerner

Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine, has published two very informative pieces on the subject of ISIS today. He begins with his own introductory comments, writing: The two perspectives articulated by Uri Avnery and Rabbi Arthur Waskow below deserve to be well known and discussed.

We at Tikkun have a slightly different approach: we believe that the hate-filled and barbarous approach of ISIS will continue to manifest in a world that is fundamentally unjust, creates huge amounts of suffering in daily life for at least two of the seven billion people on the planet, and privileges military power over kindness in its expenditures of money and in the organization of nation states.

We have long argued that what we need is to convince the Western powers to privilege generosity over domination, and to launch as a first step in this process a Global Marshall Plan to once and for all eliminate global poverty, hunger, homelessness, inadequate education and health care, repair the global environment, resettle refugees, and eliminate the unjust global trade arrangements ....

To read on see: www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2015/09/17/the-best-way-to-deal-with-isis/