Liberal Zionism: An Introduction
From a textbook that may or may not exist Chapter 1 =Statements on How to be a consensus liberal Zionist= I feel a deep passion towards israel and it defines […]
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 […]
Will there be new housing for Arab residents in Jerusalem?
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 […]
The tragedy of the Israeli left in three different vignettes
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 […]
Psagot wines are rooted in Jewish history
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Yaakov Berg tells a story about the Baron Edmund de Rothschild. Rothschild invested massively in wine production in Europe and also in Ottoman Palestine in the […]
It’s not about free speech, stupid
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 […]
Politics harms Israel’s border communities
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 […]
Golda Meir’s rotten quote
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 […]
Filling Nasser’s Shoes
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Qatar seems to be everywhere these days. “Qatar plays key role in securing release of US journalist,” “Qatar denies funding ISIS,” Qatar is said to have […]
They ran Israel, now they hate it?
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 […]
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