How the West is responsible for all the problems in the Middle East
Wouldn’t be it be extraordinary if all the claims about the instability in the Middle East having their roots in Western meddling were true? By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In a […]
Wouldn’t be it be extraordinary if all the claims about the instability in the Middle East having their roots in Western meddling were true? By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In a […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A decision on September 3, 2014, by the Jerusalem Municipality’s Planning and Construction Committee to approve a plan to build 2,200 housing units and around 340 […]
Textual analysis can provide insights into documents from history. Some documents serve as symbols of a generation’s views and some are representative of a larger thought pattern. Let’s shed our […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A recent controversy at Yale erupted when the Episcopal chaplain of the university Bruce Shipman wrote a letter to the New York Times asserting that there […]
BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN On August 25, Israel’s leftist newspaper Haaretz editorialized about “forsaking Israelis near Gaza.” The article noted that “even after Hamas tunnels reaching into kibbutzim were revealed…it did […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Who else thinks the often use of Golda Meir’s quote to excuse killing children is twisted, sick and offensive? People think this is a “pro-Israel” quote […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN If you watched a documentary about America during the Cold War and the people who ran the Vietnam war came on one at a time and […]
On August 22nd the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office uploaded a photo of the James Foley beheading with a claim that “Hamas is ISIS, ISIS is Hamas.” Although it was shared […]
Secular Israel, not quite as tolerant as it’s commentators pretend? For years secular Jewish Israelis on the left have painted themselves as models of tolerance, a “little Europe” in the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israeli commentator Aeyal Gross writes that “at any given moment Netanyahu could and should have switched to the diplomatic track and called for beginning immediate negotiations […]