Six Questions on the Kurdistan crises
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In mid-December anger began to boil over in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. On December 19 several protesters were shot and killed in Rania, a […]
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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 […]
Swedish crime rates are actually similar to parts of US, we checked
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN After US President Donald Trump criticized Sweden in a speech there has been a lot of pushback from Sweden’s government and its supports boasting about the […]
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, […]
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