Center Field: Don’t cry for us, New York Jewry By GIL TROY, Jerusalem Post, 4-8-09 Reports of distressed American Jews are stacking up faster than airplanes trying to land at La Guardia at rush hour. On a recent visit, lovely, passionate, pro-Israel friends shared their dismay. Some admitted they avoided talking about Israel because “it [...]
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Gil Troy: Don’t cry for us, New York Jewry
Posted by giltroy on April 13, 2009
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/new-york-jewry/
Center Field: Disproportionate, dishonest and discriminatory critics
By GIL TROY, The Jerusalem Post, January 29, 2009 Israel’s justified, in fact long delayed, military response to the rocket fire from Gaza triggered debate worldwide. Some criticism was reasonable, anguished, sympathizing with a state’s right to self-defense after eight years of bombardment, no matter how intermittent, while questioning the response’s intensity. Alas, much criticism [...]
Posted by giltroy on January 29, 2009
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/center-field-disproportionate-dishonest-and-discriminatory-critics/
Israel’s Dr. Hug returns – with Montrealer’s help
By Gil Troy, Canadian Jews News, January 28 2009 In October 2000, Hezbollah terrorists using United Nations vehicles kidnapped Benny Avraham and two fellow soldiers. For more than three years, Benny’s parents, Haim and Edna Avraham, along with the parents of Adi Avitan and Omar Sawaid, led a worldwide campaign to free their sons, unaware [...]
Posted by giltroy on January 28, 2009
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/israels-dr-hug-returns-%e2%80%93-with-montrealer%e2%80%99-help/
Center Field: Gaza war shows Israel’s democratic resilience
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, Thursday Jan 22, 2009 Photos by Dafna Avraham, for full album visit Facebook After the Second Lebanon War, one former tank commander sighed, “when my kids were teenagers and stumbled, I reassured them that, fortunately, the lessons learned outweighed the damage done: so too with Israel’s army.” Two and a [...]
Posted by giltroy on January 23, 2009
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/center-field-gaza-war-shows-israels-democratic-resilience/


