Gil Troy: My Response to Rashid Khalidi

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Open Zion, The Daily Beast, 4-27-12 Professor Khalidi is anxious to bar me from the debate about the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem’s building site that adjoins an ancient Moslem graveyard by questioning my credentials. And I guess he is right. Offering a symphony of subtlety to a Middle [...]

How To Model Tolerance

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Open Zion, The Daily Beast, 4-16-12 Critics of Israel are having a grand old time turning the proposed Museum of Tolerance under construction in Jerusalem into a symbol of Israeli intolerance, given the museum’s seemingly insensitive decision to build its monument to broadmindedness on a centuries-old Muslim cemetery. Rashid [...]

A J-Street convention fantasy: What they needed to hear

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 3-28-12 The J-Street convention just ended with limited media coverage. This reflects the growing realization that despite its self-promotion, this political organization is marginal, dwarfed by the 13,000 liberals, moderates, and conservatives at AIPAC’s policy conference. Not having heard much about what was said or not said, [...]

Abbas the Masquerading Moderate Caricatures a Hellish Jerusalem

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 2-28-12 Reading the news, you would think that Mahmoud Abbas’s real first name is “The Moderate” and Benjamin Netanyahu’s real last name is “the Extremist.”  Googling the words “Abbas” and “Moderate” yields 4.47 million hits, while “Netanyahu” and “Moderate” get 2.53 million hits. “Abbas” and “Extremism” yield [...]

“How Do You Say Moderate in Palestinian? Wasatia”

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 2-7-12 Since the Oslo peace process hopes disappeared amid the blasts of suicide bombings, peace-loving Israelis have searched vainly for Palestinian moderates – or signs of moderation. Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to unite with Hamas, and probably sideline his constructive Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, prove just how relative [...]

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