By SETH J. FRANTZMAN After launching 400 rockets at Israel, Hamas decided that it wanted to send a message to Jerusalem. It put out a warning that any “excessive aggression” […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In late April I wrote about an exchange between Qatar, Hamas and Washington regarding the peace process. At the time the full details were not known. […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I read an article recently about Haifa. It was interesting. The author looked at the city that is often held up as an exemplar of tolerance […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “A letter has been sent by the Qataris to Trump envoy Jason Greenblatt,” a knowledgeable source says. The source goes on to say that it spells […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On April 13 Palestinians in Gaza assembled at five protest locations in Gaza next to the Israeli border fence. It was the third week of mass […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A week after seventeen Palestinians were killed marching on the Gaza border, Israel and the Palestinians are preparing for the second Friday of the ‘Great March […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On Tuesday morning seven people were injured as bombs targeted a convoy with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and General Majid Faraj, the Palestinian Authority’s chief […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On Sunday Israel announced that it had declared some areas around the Gaza Strip a “closed military zone.” This is not an unprecedented declaration, but it […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The Holy Land is “running out of room” for Jews and Arabs, according to a bizarre article article at Reuters. Is this news, analysis or opinion? […]
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 […]
