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Monthly Archives: February 2015

Israeli Housing Crises: Country of refuge or country of opportunity

February 26, 2015by Seth Frantzman Leave a comment

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 […]

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In praise of generalization

February 24, 2015by Seth Frantzman 2 Comments

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 […]

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Victim shifting: The new post-terror narrative

February 21, 2015by Seth Frantzman 1 Comment

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 […]

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Nonsense, ‘The Atlantic’ and Islamic scholars

February 21, 2015by Seth Frantzman Leave a comment

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 […]

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Using Netanyahu to distract from anti-semitism, the new tactic

February 19, 2015by Seth Frantzman 1 Comment

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 […]

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Transcript of Haneen Zoabi statement before Israel elections committee

February 16, 2015by Seth Frantzman 2 Comments

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 […]

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The big unhealthy mess: American Jewish leadership, Israel and Netanyahu

February 12, 2015by Seth Frantzman 1 Comment

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 […]

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Not only do #MuslimLivesMatter, they often matter more in the West

February 12, 2015by Seth Frantzman Leave a comment

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 […]

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The latest Iran scam in negotiations

February 8, 2015by Seth Frantzman Leave a comment

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 […]

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The worst article on Israel’s politics by someone who should know better

February 7, 2015by Seth Frantzman Leave a comment

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 […]

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