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 [...]

Abbas the Masquerading Moderate Caricatures a Hellish Jerusalem

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 2-28-12 Reading the news, you would think that Mahmoud Abbas’s real first name is “The Moderate” and Benjamin Netanyahu’s real last name is “the Extremist.”  Googling the words “Abbas” and “Moderate” yields 4.47 million hits, while “Netanyahu” and “Moderate” get 2.53 million hits. “Abbas” and “Extremism” yield [...]

Beware ‘HIsraesteria’: Friends’ and foes’ hysteria over Israel

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 2-14-12 The unfortunate drift to theocracy continues. Recently, religious leaders in the army wanted to read a letter at prayers denouncing a policy shift that so infuriated them, they wrote: “We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law.” Initially, high ranking officials did [...]

Fighting anti-Israel week with historical facts

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 2-9-12 As some universities brace for the annual spring round of anti-Israel weeks, which falsely accuse Israel of the great crimes committed by South African apartheid racists, we must put this absurdity in historical perspective. For starters, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is a national [...]

“How Do You Say Moderate in Palestinian? Wasatia”

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 2-7-12 Since the Oslo peace process hopes disappeared amid the blasts of suicide bombings, peace-loving Israelis have searched vainly for Palestinian moderates – or signs of moderation. Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to unite with Hamas, and probably sideline his constructive Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, prove just how relative [...]

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