OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 1-10-12 Gilad Shalit is home and, we all hope, recovering. Apparently his father, Noam Shalit, has not fully recovered from the experience. It seems he so liked the status of what we should now call celebritus erroneous– celebrity by tragic mistake – that he has decided to exploit [...]
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We don’t need Noam Shalit’s sunshine patriotism in politics
Posted by giltroy on January 10, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/we-dont-need-noam-shalits-sunshine-patriotism-in-politics/
Saving “Private” Schalit – and the Defenseless Jewish State
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 10-18-11 Gilad, his father Noam, Prime Minister Netanyahu, and Defense Minister Barak. The Israeli consensus is clear. The deal to free Corporal Gilad Schalit is bewildering: absurd, lopsided, heartbreaking, terrifying, as well as inspirational, humane, necessary, and ultimately rational. Much of the discussion has emphasized the Jewish [...]
Posted by giltroy on October 18, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/saving-private-schalit-and-the-defenseless-jewish-state/
Hamas, Gilad Schalit and the Problem of Evil
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 4-12-11 As an historian not a theologian, I dislike speaking of “evil” when talking politics. All governments are imperfect collective expressions of flawed human beings. Good-and-evil talk regarding states encourages deadlocks; fighting evil precludes compromise. Still, some actions truly are evil, as are their perpetrators and enablers. Firing an anti-tank [...]
Posted by giltroy on April 12, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/hamas-gilad-schalit-aproblem-of-evil/
