Rivlin on church killing: Free world values under attack

President Reuven Rivlin says the attack on a church in France shows the need for the free world to understand that “our values are under attack.”

“This attack shows the true face of the brutal nature and the horror of terrorism,” the president says of the attack that killed an elderly French priest. “The whole free world must understand that our values are under attack. We must fight to defend them, lest we be overtaken by waves of intolerance and hatred.”

He says: “This attack shows the true face of the brutal nature and horror of terrorism. This is an attack by radical extremists, terrorists, who have struck at the very symbol of peace and murdered in cold blood in a house of God, while they pretend to speak in His name.”

Israel, Rivlin says, “stands side by side with the people of France, and we send our thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families.”