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 [...]
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Let Gunter Grass visit Israel – and encounter democracy
Posted by giltroy on April 10, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/let-gunter-grass-visit-israel-and-encounter-democracy/
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/
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 [...]
Posted by giltroy on September 6, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/decade-after-911-still-proud/
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/
