Cliches lost and bewildered after Israel municipal elections
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 […]
Tag Archives: Jerusalem
“Day of rage”: An EPIC list of all the groups and countries and people opposing the embassy move (and some who don’t)
By Seth J. Frantzman Since the US administration of Donald Trump began leaking rumors that it would move the US embassy to Jerusalem or recognize Jerusalem as the capital of […]
Two weeks in July: Jerusalem tensions, Israel and the Palestinians
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ON FRIDAY July 14th I awoke, hungover and tired, with news that there had been a terror attack in the Old City. It had all the […]
Who is “offended” by maternity ward segregation at Israeli hospitals?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN What percent of those in Israel today expressing feigned outrage at the report on Reshet B’ radio that hospitals often put Jews and Arabs in separate […]
Review of Dennis Ross’ ‘Doomed to succeed’
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN October 22, 2015 In April of 1981 Syria moved batteries of surface-to-air missiles into the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. At the time, Syria was occupying Lebanon, […]
The audacity to save Jerusalem from its new geography
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, […]
On alert: Policing Jerusalem in a time of terror
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN October 18, 2015 The siren’s outside Jerusalem’s Gate are from a Border Police SUV. Then come two police cars. Then come motorcycle units of the Yasam […]
Current Palestinian-Israeli violence is NOT the One-State solution
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Based on the volume of violent incidents and, more importantly, the identity of the people behind them, it’s easy to say: this isn’t an intifada. It’s […]
Jerusalem’s ‘thin blue line’: An inside look at Israel’s police amidst recent violence
Jerusalem police are on high alter in Jerusalem after a spate of stabbings
BBC’s ‘Panorama’ grinds its axe on Jerusalem’s light rail
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Last Friday the 24th BBC’s ‘Panorama’ aired a program of unprecedented bias attacking Jerusalem’s light rail. Titled ‘the train that divides Jerusalem’ it painted the train […]
