Is Flynn just the beginning?
By Seth J. Frantzman “There does appear to be a well orchestrated effort to attack [former National Security Advisor] Flynn and others in the administration,” US Congressman Devin Nunes, Republican chairman […]
By Seth J. Frantzman “There does appear to be a well orchestrated effort to attack [former National Security Advisor] Flynn and others in the administration,” US Congressman Devin Nunes, Republican chairman […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A ready-made headline was awaiting the US President’s decision to ban people from seven Muslim-majority countries. Days after the “Muslim ban” was announced, we learned that […]
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 […]
Maps and notes to my column arguing ethnic-nation states are a fantasy in the Middle East, and it’s not all about colonialism
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 9/20/2015 This is part of an ongoing series of articles on Syria: September, 2009 The American hikers held in Iran October 25, 2011, Ambassador Ford’s heroic […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 10/18/2015 After a spate of violence in the past two weeks, the populist jingoism of ham-handed solutions is raising its head. “Deport them all,” scream some, […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 10/16/2015 When I was in high school in 1995 I paint a portrait of Yitzhak Rabin on a large canvas. It’s a strange black and white […]
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 […]
8/30/2015 Seth J. Frantzman Over the weekend photos of an Israeli soldier fighting with several Palestinian women and children went viral. In the sequence he is shown with his rifle […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN You’d think that Mandela or Gandhi had passed away, such were the poetic love letters sent by world leaders and the way the death of Saudi […]