SETH J. FRANTZMAN The housing report landed like a fat man hitting the water of a placid pool. The State Comptroller detailed the ineffectual response of Israel’s government over the […]
SETH J. FRANTZMAN “You’re generalizing….you’re generalizing against a people, a nation…how can you generalize?” The way the term generalizing is used as a rhetorical foil is often to discount an […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Just two days after the Copenhagen terrorist attack that resulted in the death of a filmmaker and a Jewish synagogue guard, the narrative had begun. “Muslim […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN There is a brewing controversy over a cover story by The Atlantic. The major article by Graeme Wood is a slick piece of journalism by a slick […]
SETH J. FRANTZMAN There is a lot of fury at Netanyahu. Newspapers across Europe are enraged at the Israeli leader. Opeds are pouring in throughout the world. The Metro, a British tabloid […]
By GOOGLE TRANSLATE and SETH J. FRANTZMAN “What really bother you that I am a Palestinian and I want to stay within the Palestinian Knesset as well.” – Haneen Zoabi […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Rarely in the history of Israel has such a series of crises come to the fore regarding Israel, the US government, the American Jewish leadership and […]
SETH J. FRANTZMAN Within hours of the discovery of the bodies of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, Yusor Mohammad, 21, and Razan Mohammad Abu Salha, 19, local media, such as CBS affiliate […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The latest threat is Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told the US President the Hassan Rouhani’s “political clout would be heavily damaged if negotiations failed.” This […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland has penned an article complaining that Israelis won’t take up the chance to give Netanyahu the boot, a decision he thinks, paternalistically, they […]
