Israelis should reflect on the harshness of their political culture which makes American politics look like a tea party – in the old-fashioned sense. By GIL TROY, Jerusalem Post, 1-11-11 Photo by: AP The Tucson, Arizona rampage left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded, six citizens dead and millions of Americans jumping to the right conclusions [...]
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After Arizona: Israelis, Americans must make democracy work
Posted by giltroy on January 11, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/after-arizona-israelis-americans-must-make-democracy-work/
Center Field: WWHD: What would Herzl do?
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 4-28-10 In celebrating Theodor Herzl’s 150th birthday – he was born May 2, 1860 – it’s easy to despair. "Holyland" has become shorthand for corruption and cronyism, not religious nationalism. The recent sobering statistics publicized by Professor Dan Ben-David of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel depict [...]
Posted by giltroy on April 28, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/center-field-wwhd-what-would-herzl-do/
Are We Moving to the Right?
A historical look at the trends of conservative Jewish voters. By Gil Troy, MyJewishLearning.com In one of the funnier–but more absurd–appeals for the Jewish vote in 2008, the trash-talking comedienne Sarah Silverman recorded a video for TheGreatSchlep.com, a website urging young Jews to lobby their grandparents in Florida to vote for Barack Obama. In her [...]
Posted by giltroy on November 7, 2008
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/are-we-moving-to-the-right/
