Rex Tillerson’s oil background could be a game-changer for Kurdistan region
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Texas-born Rex Tillerson is Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State. He received a degree from the University of Texas and has worked in the oil […]
Monthly Archives: December 2016
Assad’s focus on Aleppo vs. Palmyra is about DESTROYING the past; killing future
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN When Bashar al-Assad’s army backed by Russia and other allies marched into Palmyra in the spring of 2016 he got applause from some around the world […]
STOP calling mass murder terror a “blast”; like calling lynching a “rope”
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A “blast at Egypt’s main Coptic christian Cathedral kills 25, injures dozens,” was a headline at FoxNews taken from the Associated Press. There were headlines today about […]
Boris Johnson tells truth about Saudi and Iran; SILENCED by own government
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “What’s needed is visionary leadership. There are not enough big characters, big people, men or women, who are willing to reach out beyond their Sunni or […]
9/11 was our Pearl Harbor, but for us the war never ends
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN My dad woke me up on September 11th, 2001. He was calling from the East Coast where it was just after 9am. It was 6am in […]
Note to journalists: STOP writing about your relatives
There are few things more disgusting in journalism than people who use their privilege and position at a newspaper or online media to constantly highlight their family members. They exploit […]
What can you do to stop Islamist extremism? Not much, because you don’t understand the problem
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “We can all sigh a breath of relief and sleep better knowing British Muslims are more likely to be harbouring aspirations for their children to continue in […]
White rage, neo-colonialism and the right of local people to decide their future
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In late November 2016 I began receiving threatening emails from an Israeli academic about a blog post I had written on the bedouin in the Negev. “I […]
The Nazis weren’t so bad?! A SHOCKING book review downplays Nazi crimes
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Was cultural life in Nazi Germany as undimensional and controlled as we have been thought to believe,” asks the sub-head of a review by Oded […]
Jimmy Carter’s crusade for Palestine
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “I believed very deeply that the Jews who had survived the Holocaust deserved their own nation, and that they had a right to live in peace […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 