Gil Troy

Instead of wallowing in self-pity, Zionists should reconceptualize their approach.

Old-timers recall the peaceful border from 1948 through the 1970s, when Israeli farmers worked lands inside Lebanon, and one-third of Western Galilee hospital’s ophthalmology patients were Lebanese.

We need a robust, honest debate, in Israel and worldwide, with right-wingers questioning their faith in Netanyahu and left-wingers questioning their assumptions.

We cannot be so hard-hearted to deny Palestinian suffering, exacerbated by Israeli operational failures, but we cannot let Hamas destroy us.

Jew-hatred spikes when societies are under stress and totalitarian thinking spreads, Left and Right.

America, Israel, and the Jewish people should use this as an educational and ideological opportunity. 

The country needs Israel-oriented tourism, with tourists supporting the Jewish state.

Israelis welcome the prospect of a future in which they are no longer surrounded by well-armed enemies determined to do them harm, even if it means being viewed negatively by the rest of the world.

In Israel-under-fire, we laugh a little harder, hug and bless our kids more intensely, dance at weddings and other celebrations more furiously, and started rebuilding even as ICBMs kept detonating.

If Israel accepts Trump’s announced ceasefire, it will show it knows how to “take a real win” – having secured a historic victory without overpromising or overstepping.