Middle East drone UPDATES
This blog will look at news about drones in the Middle East. February 19, CENTCOM reveals a shipment it intercepted in November 2019 “The shipment interdicted by the USS FORREST […]
Tag Archives: yemen
February 6, 2020: Israel-Hamas and Israel-Iran tensions rise
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Tensions appear to be escalating between Israel and Hamas as well as there being a potential for escalation with Iranian-backed groups in Syria. This comes after […]
Iran’s goal: Turn Yemen into Saudi’s Vietnam
Iran’s goal: Turn Yemen into Saudi’s Vietnam By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Videos published by pro-Houthi and pro-Iranian media appear to show hundreds of Saudi-backed fighters routed by the Houthi rebels […]
Tracking down a bizarre story that linked Israel to “mercenaries”, the Negev and the Yemen war
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN An article on February 17, 2019 in Israel’s Haaretz had a provocative headline “Yemen’s War Is a Mercenary Heaven. Are Israelis Reaping the Profits?” Explosive details were contained […]
Iran IRGC brags about its “bases from Red Sea to Mediterranean”, suggests US will leave Iraq
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran Brigadier General Hossein Salami told a forum at the University of Damghan in Semnan province […]
A little girl photographed by NYT in Yemen has died, why didn’t world help her?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On November 1 we learned the awful news that a little 7 year old Yemeni girl named Amal Hussein had died. The girl’s photo, taken by […]
Journalism, privilege, and victim narratives
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A lot of people have read Jared Yates Sexton’s tweets about getting death threats after he outed a Reddit user who made a gif about Trump […]
Stage 3 of Gulf intervention with Aden about to fall
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Saudi Arabia and the GCC launched airstrikes in the first hours of March 26 and have announced an intervention in Yemen. Updates of this development story […]
Book review: The Yemenite tragedy
Review of The “Magic Carpet” Exodus of Yemenite Jewry: An Israeli Formative Myth, by Esther Meir-Glitzenstein Sussex Academic Press, £67.50 / $89.95, published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine January 10 By SETH […]
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