The Haniyeh family health plan in Israel
Original version published in The Jerusalem Post The Haniyeh family health plan continues in Israel with the children of the Hamas leader still receiving priority treatment at Israel’s hospitals. One […]
Tag Archives: Palestinians
The rise and fall of Palestinian Oktoberfest
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In 2011 I drove northeast of Jerusalem to the small village of Taybeh to do a preview of the Oktoberfest. It was October. The hills were […]
Patrick Henry and the Palestinians
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “We must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are […]
The politics of refusing Israel’s draft
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On Friday September 12th the issue of Israel Defense Forces soldiers refusing to carry out their duties raised its head again when it was reported that […]
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 […]
Motivated to Serve: The Palestine Red Crescent Society
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On one side of a giant parking lot are hundreds of garbage bags, neatly stacked against an earthen embankment. Across […]
So “pro-Israel”, it hurts…
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On August 14th the Daily Mail tabloid in the UK ran an “expose” on an Israeli “reservist” with a shirt that claimed he had “deployed, destroyed and […]
Civilian casualties in Gaza: Things to consider
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN [Updated August 10] The recent ‘Third Gaza war‘ or ‘Operation Protective Edge has raised ire and protest around the world; some countries withdrew ambassadors from Israel, […]
Watching the war
Published in The Jerusalem Post Metro edition ‘I come down here for every war,” said a burly man who walked with a slight limp. He was one of two […]
Can Israel learn from pre-Zionism?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A recent article in an Israeli newspaper claimed that “Zionism is out of fashion in New Zealand.” A website called Jwire in Australia claimed that Zionism […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 