The media must stop using the term “militant”
If you kill an endangered Rhino you are a criminal; but if you behead a Japanese journalist the Western press calls you a “militant killing a hostage.” The only liberation […]
Monthly Archives: January 2015
A tour of kibbutz Tzuba, A refuge in the hills
SETH J. FRANTZMAN Reuven Kalifon works as a night guard at Kibbutz Tzuba, where he has lived 35 years. It gives him time to think about Jewish history. “What is […]
Touring Ottoman era Israel from Rishon to Jaffa
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Anyone driving down the 431 towards Rishon LeTsiyon can’t miss the strange old buildings that loom over the highway near the exit to Be’er Yaakov. This […]
How did Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah become a world hero
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN You’d think that Mandela or Gandhi had passed away, such were the poetic love letters sent by world leaders and the way the death of Saudi […]
Stop ‘saving’ Africa
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Since 2005, LifeStraw, billed as “cheap, portable personal water purifier,” has been picking up awards; Esquire said it was an innovation of the year in 2005, […]
Daniel Hannan: Free markets can help bring peace to MidEast
Daniel Hannan: Free markets can help bring peace to MidEast By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Imagine a property based free market in Gaza…maybe if that option were on the table and […]
Discussing the Saudi King
Book review: The Yemenite tragedy
Review of The “Magic Carpet” Exodus of Yemenite Jewry: An Israeli Formative Myth, by Esther Meir-Glitzenstein Sussex Academic Press, £67.50 / $89.95, published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine January 10 By SETH […]
Four Charlie Hebdo stories media misunderstood
In the aftermath of the January 7 attacks by Said and Cherif Kouachi on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris; the subsequent manhunt, and the attack on a kosher supermarket […]
The Hero of Hitler’s dreams
A groundbreaking new study situates the Turkish revolution of the 1920s amidst Nazi political thought • SETH J. FRANTZMAN Originally published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine On October 30, two […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 