By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigned on Wednesday November 14 in the wake of a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel. His resignation leaves unprecedented power […]
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 Large numbers of cliches are lost after the Israel municipal elections. They were hoping to come out on November 1 to tell the public how the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A Fars Air Qeshm flight Boeing 747 touched down in Beirut at 2:04 pm on October 16. The large white aircraft had left Tehran at 9:33am […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN This originally appeared at The Jerusalem Post “Setting fire to the ground,” a “major catastrophe,” bringing “new instability” are the headlines that have greeted Donald Trump’s […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On September 19 satellite images showed the destruction of a warehouse in Latakia that was targeted on September 17. In the images, published on i24 and […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Massive explosions rocked northern Syria’s Latakia countryside on Monday night hours after a buffer zone deal was announced by Russia and Turkey. The deal appeared […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On Saturday a Syrian scientist left his home in Hama for a drive to Masyaf, a facility of the Scientific Studied and Research Center (SSRC), sometimes […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The last week of July and first days of August were momentous and difficult for Druze in Syria and Israel. On July 25 ISIS members attacks […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “The feeling we are not equal was always a bit present in the street. It’s sad, because we’ve always believed that someday we would be equal, […]
