I wrote this in late February 2019. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israelis awoke on Thursday morning, February 2 with news that three former generals and a populist centrist political leader […]
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, […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I’m thirty-seven years old. That means I was born in 1980 and grew up in the 1990s. It means my formative years were that turn of […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN As the sun was setting over southern Syria on Friday, the Associated Press reported that its sources say a ceasefire in southwest Syria is in the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Since 2014 dozens of volunteers have joined the Kurdish YPG in the war against ISIS. They came from all walks of life and from all over […]
By Seth J. Frantzman Looking for something new this year? This summer? A place where there aren’t legions of tourists, but has the beauty and opportunity to get off the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On the eve of US Secretary of State’s peace speech on December 28, US President-elect Donald Trump tweeted; “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In the early hours of August 14th Kurdish Peshmerga forces launched an offensive on the Khazir and Gwer fronts aimed at liberating 11 villages from Islamic […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I used to joke that it’s not tuesday in the Israeli press unless there is something racist. There was a point where I started clipping out […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In March of 2016 I went to Senegal to report on that country’s role in West Africa. A stable democracy, Senegal is a Muslim country with […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 