May’s train wreck: How the EU outplayed the UK in Brexit
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN UK Prime Minister Theresa May spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday, December 11, a day after she chose to cancel a vote in Parliament […]
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US claims it killed ISIS commander, Syria says US hit its forces
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In a bizarre series of events on Sunday the Syrian regime claimed that the US hit its forces south of Sukhna “The military source said in […]
Legacy: George H.W. Bush, architect of New World Order, dead at 94
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN My earliest memory of war was under George H.W Bush, who passed away Friday. It was 1990 and the US was mobilizing to send troops to […]
The tragic murder of Syrian activist Raed Fares
Syrian media activist Raed Fares assassinated By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A “beacon of hope and bravery,” an icon, a modest and humble man who exuded the hope of the early, […]
Why was a Yazidi genocide bill voted down in Israel’s Knesset?
MK Svetlova: Israel was created from the ashes of the Holocaust, we are obligated to acknowledge the suffering of others By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In a preliminary vote in the […]
Covering the Gaza November crises and Netanyahu’s teetering government
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On November 11 an Israeli army team near Khan Yunis was spotted by a suspicious Palestinian Hamas commander, according to reports. An exchange of fire left […]
Gaza: Prelude to a non-war shakes up Israeli politics and leads Hamas to think it “won”
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” […]
The Khashoggi files: As case builds against Riyadh, what the Wikileaks files tell us about history and kingdom
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On October 11, nine days into the Khashoggi Affair, US Senator Bob Corker said “there is no question the Saudis did this,” according to a tweet […]
Before the disappearance: Khashoggi’s own words, the Arab Spring, the Brotherhood and the region
Transcribed and annotated By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On October 6 The Arab Tyrant Manual, which includes work from Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmad Gatnash, who together also are President and […]
The Trump Doctrine and the end of the ‘New World Order’
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 […]
