Waking up after the long hangover of the Trump era
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Election night 2016. I won’t forget it. It began in downtown Jerusalem at a bar called Mike’s Place where the Republicans in Israel had gathered. I […]
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Iran after the US election, a return to the deal?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran has suffered years of US “economic terrorism” and that now after the US election Iran hopes that the US […]
Seth Frantzman at FFT Webinar
Event registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IJ16JMg8QyOfMptIbQpx1w Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/245989843509561 Language we’ve been using for promotion: Join our upcoming @FuelForTruth Webinar as Seth Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post’s Middle East Affairs Analyst, examines what Israel and […]
Israel-UAE relations economic milestones: The dynamic relationship develops
Israel and UAE economic initiative news By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israel and the UAE are rapidly fostering relations that look set to build a powerful alliance between two of the […]
Seth Frantzman: On the UAE-Israel accord and the Bahrain agreement and the region
I’ve been writing about Israel’s relations and the growing strategic consensus between Israel, Greece and the Gulf over the last years. I have also been covering Iran and Turkey’s role […]
The story of the “white” professor pretending to be Black is a story about America’s lost generations
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN When the story broke in early September 2020 that a “white professor” in the US had pretended to be Black I was unsurprised. She isn’t the […]
The ‘tough love, pro-Israel’; crowd and the UAE deal
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Remember John Kerry’s 2016 speech about a UN Resolution condemning Israel’s role in the West Bank. He said the administration was “deeply committed to Israel and […]
All the sources for the Israel, UAE F-35 controversy
The UAE-Israel bilateral agreement to establish normalized relations was announced on August 13, 2020. Washington Post “access to previously off-limits U.S. weaponry, such as advanced drones.” New York Times: Dennis […]
List of aid flights arriving in Beirut since August 4 explosion
August 5 Iran Qeshm Fars Air 747 Iran Caspian Air 747 Russia to send three planes (SUM9103), IL-76 with 15 specialists and equipment and 100 other specialists France sends 55 […]
On the 6th anniversary of the ISIS genocide of Yazidis: A personal look back
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN My first memories of ISIS crimes were in the summer of 2014 when the group first began to flood social media of images of mass murder. […]
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