Let Gunter Grass visit Israel – and encounter democracy

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 4-10-12 “Let Gunter Grass visit Israel – and encounter democracy” A popular YouTube parody at www.collegehumor.com, which my kids love, has a youngGerman named Gunter Granz working in an American office, refusing to shake his Jewish co-workers’ hands, assuming all their fathers are rich bankers, and humiliated by Germany’s World War [...]

We don’t need Noam Shalit’s sunshine patriotism in politics

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 [...]

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 [...]

End Price Tag Terrorism – and their Culture of Lawlessness

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 10-4-11 During these ten days of repentance, when Jews should reflect on past sins to avoid future ones, some extremist hooligans chose instead to sin anew.  “Price tag” terrorists burned a mosque in the northern Israeli village of Tuba Zangria, graffiting the messages “price tag” and “revenge” [...]

A decade after 9/11 – and still proud

OP-EDS & REVIEWS Despite all my lingering post-9/11 anger, I also hold on to overwhelming feelings of pride, gratitude, hope from that day and its aftermath. By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 9-6-11 Ten years ago this week, 19 terrorists hijacked four airplanes, murdered nearly three thousand people, destroyed the World Trade Center’s twin towers, and [...]

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