Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Gideon Drucker http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sun, 26 May 2013 03:02:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 My Week With Friends of the IDF http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-week-with-friends-of-the-idf/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-week-with-friends-of-the-idf/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:48:56 +0000 Gideon Drucker http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=121352 Sometimes words aren’t enough. Words don’t do justice to the experience of walking inside the gas chambers where over 1,000,000 of my people were systematically marched to their death. They don’t do justice to my experience of walking through the infamous Macht Frei Sign above Auschwitz and feeling my body tense up and shiver at [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/101018/feed/ 13 Israel’s Double Standard & Hamas: Part 2 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/82210/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/82210/#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:57:51 +0000 Gideon Drucker http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=82210   Israel’s response to terrorist attacks spawned out of an ideology that openly calls for the murder of Israeli citizenry is inescapable, necessary and justified. Even more, because they are a moral army that understands the absurd double standard they are held to, the Israeli Defense Force tries harder than any army in the world [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-double-standard-hamas-part-1/feed/ 4 The Dangers of Iran-The Naivety of Obama http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-dangers-of-iran-the-naivety-of-obama/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-dangers-of-iran-the-naivety-of-obama/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:18:21 +0000 Gideon Drucker http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=76052   “To those who doubt, to those who ask is it possible or those who do not believe, I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible” – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, 2005 If world history has taught us anything, it’s that when a dangerous dictator threatens the [...]

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