Posts Tagged: Seth Frantzman
Turkish ‘Diplomacy’ in Israel, Lebanon, and the Middle East
Just in case there were any doubts, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu demonstrated with his recent visit to Lebanon that improved relations between Middle Eastern...
How Drones Shaped Warfare — and Israel
Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence and the Battle for the Future by Seth Frantzman, (Bombardier Books, 2021) Drones are transforming the way wars...
An Inside Look at the Struggle Against ISIS
Below is an excerpt from Seth J. Frantzman’s After ISIS: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East (Gefen Publishing, Jerusalem, 2019) After a short...
Jewish Leader Refuses New York Times Apology Over ‘Deeply Antisemitic’ Cartoon
A major Jewish organization is refusing to accept the New York Times’ apology for the Times publishing a cartoon depicting the prime minister of Israel...
Israeli Minister Expresses Concern Over Fate of Kurds After Trump’s Withdrawal From Syria
A top Israeli official has expressed concern over the fate of the Kurds in Syria following US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops...
The Incitement Against Sholom Rubashkin
The media is abuzz with the story that US President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin. As CNBC notes: “The Chasidic Jewish Rubashkin was convicted...
Why Were the 7,000 Antisemitic Incidents Under Obama Largely Ignored?
In the last two months, almost 100 Jewish community centers and day schools have been targeted with antisemitic threats. The map of the threats is...
We Must Know the Truth About What Happened to Israel’s Yemenite Children
Steven Plaut recently wrote a piece in The Algemeiner claiming that "Yemenite children were never kidnapped in Israel." His article was a response to news that the Israel State Archives...
In Iraqi Kurdistan, a Genocide Before Our Very Eyes (PART TWO)
Part One of this article appeared here. Nothing can prepare one for the level of destruction found in Shingal. The streets are strewn with rubble, housing blown...
In Iraqi Kurdistan, a Genocide Before Our Very Eyes
The two bullet casings are already beginning to rust. Sheikh Nasser Pasha plucks them from the ground. “Look, one is from an AK-47, one from...
Democrats Think Israel is Racist? They’re Probably Right
A few days after the U.S. was the only country to stand by Israel at the United Nations Human Rights Council, an ostensibly shocking survey was released that showed that...
An Eyewitness Account of the Kurds’ Battle Against ISIS
This firsthand report was originally published by MIDA. The desert grasslands around Mosul are parched and hot. Northern Iraq is not a place one would want...
Israel Must Banish its Ashkenazi-Mizrahi Stereotypes
Living in Israel sometimes makes me wonder what it must have been like to live in 1950s America. My grandmother was a civil rights...
Will Argentina’s Jews Be Scapegoated?
"I ask myself how these wise and good-hearted people could have fallen into a trap and wound up on the same side as the country's...
