A year reporting on the Great Return March
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For a year Hamas and other Palestinian groups in Gaza kept a major protest movement along the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel. Around 260 Palestinians were […]
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Notes and thoughts on the Smollett case
Earlier this week “The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office dropped all charges against Jusie Smollett on Tuesday but released little about why it abandoned the 16 felony disorderly conduct charges,” […]
Everything you need to know about airstrikes near Aleppo: March 27, 2019
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN SANA, Syrian State media blamed Israel for airstrikes in Aleppo on Tuesday night that allegedly targeted the Nayrab air base, an industrial area at Sheikh Najjar, […]
A French Multipurpose frigate is in Haifa
The Languedoc FREMM-class of multi-purpose frigate docked in Haifa this week. Its sister ship the Acquitaine took part in the April airstrikes on Syria. Languedoc is in the eastern Mediterranean as part of […]
Is this the future of helicopters?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The Sikorsky Defiant helicopter achieved its first flight, according to the company. VIDEO: Our #SB1 Defiant aircraft has officially completed its first flight! 🚁 We're excited […]
From the Unabomber to New Zealand terror: Media, social media and confronting hate
Social media giants, media and authorities have learned how to confront terror in recent years, but are they addressing it the right way online? By SETH J. FRANTZMAN From […]
A centrist party of generals could end Netanyahu’s decade-long tenure
I wrote this in late February 2019. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israelis awoke on Thursday morning, February 2 with news that three former generals and a populist centrist political leader […]
Norway condones antisemitism in name of “multiculturalism”
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN According to a report at the JTA: A Norwegian rapper who cursed Jews while performing at an event in Oslo promoting multiculturalism will not be charged […]
Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq are increasingly pressuring US to leave
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Two Shi’ite militia leaders spoke out over the weekend, with one threatening the US and the other demanding US troops leave Iraq. Hashim al-Mousawi, spokesman of […]
Thoughts on the ISIS supporters from western countries and taking responsibility in the West
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN More and more ISIS supporters from places like Holland, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, the UK and elsewhere are appearing in Syria. After more than four years […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 