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 [...]

National Insecurity American Jews haven’t stood up for Jonathan Pollard. That might finally be changing.

American Jews haven’t stood up for Jonathan Pollard. That might finally be changing. By Gil Troy, Tablet Magazine, 11-16-10 Jonathan Pollard. Photoillustration: Tablet Magazine; photo: Wikimedia Commons Jonathan Pollard, who is now marking his 24th year in prison, has earned the dubious record of serving the longest prison term in American history for spying for [...]

The neo-conning of Israel and Zionism

By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 5-24-10 A disturbing new trend risks making Israel and Zionism politically poisonous to liberals. Israel has been “neo-conned,” cast as a neo-conservative Sparta, caricatured as a militarized theocracy, defined by the ultra-Orthodox haredim’s black garb and the IDF’s olive green uniforms, epitomized by “Avigdor Lieberman, the settlers, and Shas,” as [...]

Center Field: ‘Thank you, George W. Bush’

by Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, Wednesday Jan 07, 2009 Once again, in Israel’s hour of need, George W. Bush has supported the Jewish state eloquently, passionately, gracefully. At a time when most presidents use their rapidly shrinking bully pulpit to burnish their legacies, Bush devoted one of his final Saturday radio addresses to defending Israel’s [...]

Mumbai “Blowback” – terrorists miscalculated again

By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 12-10-08 Islamist terrorists are no doubt celebrating the Mumbai mayhem, convinced they triumphed somehow by turning luxury hotels, a train station and a Jewish community center into killing fields. And in the media’s pathological patter - shaping too many Westerners- defensive defeatism - talk of the “militants’” “successful operation” feeds these triumphalist [...]

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