Iran and Russia get Syria, we get Assad
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The last weeks have been momentous in terms of relations between the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and the world. One by one leaders have lined […]
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Desert magic festival
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Published on 9/27/2015 Abu Yusuf al-Sana doesn’t seem fazed by his 72 years. Stocky and strong, he carries himself with a quiet confidence as he looks […]
Reuter’s weirdo crusade against Israel’s “demographic” growth
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The Holy Land is “running out of room” for Jews and Arabs, according to a bizarre article article at Reuters. Is this news, analysis or opinion? […]
“History will judge us”? There won’t be history
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN People who write or say “history will judge us,” have they considered that in the future there may not be history? I mean, considering the way […]
Time to protest Saudi failure and mass-deaths in Hajj
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN As September 24 turned from morning to afternoon the death toll in a massive stampede climbed from hundreds to over 700. A day before many websites […]
The dark narrative of Israel’s ‘Rhodesia’ fantasy
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On September 17 the editor of a major newspaper in Israel complained that the “non-Zionist tribes” were gaining ground in Israel. “There is no consensus on […]
The bizarre lobby to get Israel to take in Syrian refugees
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “My love for Israel has been taken by shame,” they cry. “This is not how a Jewish state treats refugees,” writes Don Futterman, program director for […]
Is this “progressive” Islamophobia at its worst? When the left stereotypes Muslims
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On September 18 the Facebook page ‘Liberal Progressive Political Talk‘ posted a meme that has now been shared over 2,000 times. It showed Barack Obama, beer […]
Jordan’s baptism site: Completing the Holy Land
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Originally published at The Jerusalem Post In 1873 the British surveyor, explorer and soldier Claude Conder was in the Jericho area exploring for ruins. “I rode day […]
Making yourself famous is not charity
I find it unconscionable, people who give to charity and think it gives them some sort of moral superiority because of it, that somehow they are “better” because of it, […]
