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 [...]
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Saving “Private” Schalit – and the Defenseless Jewish State
Posted by giltroy on October 18, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/saving-private-schalit-and-the-defenseless-jewish-state/
The Court Jews of the 21st Century: ‘Confessions’ of ex-Zionists dehumanize Israelis and delegitimize Israel
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 6-28-11 The recent bouts of ‘confessions’ from ex-Zionists dehumanize Israelis and delegitimize Israel. Confessional testimonies of the latest Jewish, anti-Zionist poster children recall Puritan Americans’ “captivity narratives.” Virtuous seventeenth-century women kidnapped by Indians described their brutal incarceration, then, their redemption. The new captivity narrative, modern-spoiled-American-Jewish-suburban style, recounts a young Jew’s [...]
Posted by giltroy on June 28, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/confessions-ex-zionists-dehumanize-israelis-delegitimize-israel/
Cultivating democracy, Reagan- and Sharansky-style
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 2-8-11 Photo by: Ronald Reagan Library/White House photo Israelis usually know not to let fear of the future cloud the present. All peace-loving democrats should celebrate the potential inherent in Egypt’s popular uprising. As the ones who taught the world about going from slavery to freedom by leaving ancient Egypt, [...]
Posted by giltroy on February 9, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/cultivating-democracy-reagan-sharansky-style/
We need creative extremism – not left or right Orthodoxy
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 9-1-10 Ideologues left and right seem unhinged these days. Leftists claim that bullying right-wingers menace Israeli democracy. Their diatribes suggest there is no free thought in Israeli universities, with everyone forced to parrot a right-wing line. Meanwhile rightists charge traitorous left-wingers with threatening Israel’s very existence. Their diatribes create the [...]
Posted by giltroy on September 1, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/creative-extremism-not-left-right-orthodoxy/
Educating the spoiled brats of Jewish history
By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 6-3-10 Halleluyah! Natan Sharansky is trying to reform the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI). Since he became chairman of this quasi-governmental agency, uniquely poised to bridge the State of Israel with Jewish communities around the world, he has pushed an exciting new vision for the infamously bureaucratic agency. Sharansky [...]
Posted by giltroy on June 3, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/jafi-educating-jewish-history/
