Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
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Middle East security analyst, Phd, author of #TheOctober7War bylines @Jerusalem_Post @BreakingDefense adjunct fellow @FDD Exec Dir @MidEast_Center @GulfIsrael;
Joined March 2009
I am thrilled to announce the release of my new book, 'The October 7 War: Israel’s Battle for Security in Gaza.' While I've covered numerous Gaza wars, this one has been harrowing and long. Awakened by Hamas rocket fire on October 7, 2023, I began covering the conflict from its
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These 16th century Venetian reports are fascinating.
🚨 New Venetian intelligence report: Senators, your spy has just returned from Spain, England, and Burgundy. Philip the Handsome is dead and a young Charles V prepares for the throne. Also, Dutch women are hot and Spanish “people” are ugly and poor. The year is 1506. Link below.
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Pvt. Greyman’s grave lay nearly hidden, but his legacy no longer is. By finding him, I found something of my family’s own fractured history, threaded throughout time. @DanielleGreyman reports https://t.co/OYYICsQM2M
jpost.com
HISTORICAL AFFAIRS: Private Sam Greyman's journey took him from Russia to Leeds to Jerusalem.
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Disrupting public order in Iran regime means being a normal decent person
Iran charge Kurdish teachers with “disrupting public order”
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They want to raise their children in safety ? Makes sense
The great Polish exodus: The arrival of 100,000s of Poles changed the face of Britain, but now they're returning home in droves for a better life in their low-tax, booming homeland. Could there be a more damning indictment of our decline?
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Ethnic cleansing and destruction of the environment and archaeological sites often go hand-in-hand because they are part of the same process. Remove the people, in this case Kurds, then destroy the environment that they loved and made their own; then destroy the ancient sites.
More than 45 rare cedar trees were cut in the Kurdish region of #Afrin, northwestern #Syria. Activists warn the loss of the 60-year-old grove deepens environmental damage amid ongoing illegal logging since 2018. #Kurds #SNA Read more: https://t.co/Uv2DbHI9L4
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Help the Kurdistan Region
US working to protect Kurdistan infrastructure, warns against ‘militias’ in Iraq’s next government
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I won’t post that trailer for Animal Farm. It looks really bad
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These monsters won’t leave anything left of Afrin ; they hate the environment, trees and everything The destruction of Afrin due to the 2018 invasion is a crime against humanity
More than 45 wild cedar trees have been cut down in the Kurdish region of Afrin, northwestern #Syria, as illegal logging continues in the area. #Afrin – Siwar Hamo – #NorthPress
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Syria licenses first organization for Jewish heritage
english.enabbaladi.net
The Syrian government announced on Wednesday, 10 December, that it has granted an official license to the first organization dedicated […]
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Am I the only one not surprised by the Chomsky photo? People at that level don’t really care about ideology; the public perception that these folk are ideologically different is because they use our divisions in society to profit; but the reality is that behind closed doors they
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I don’t understand how the destruction of a bunch of buildings in Gaza is some kind of response to October 7. I was on the border that day and throughout much of the war; I and many others wanted Hamas removed and the hostages back. The hostages came home largely due to the Trump
Perhaps the 7th October atrocities were a mistake?
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He was very smart on foreign policy and some domestic policy. He had a few flaws that led to his downfall ; tragic figure in many ways
This is correct, Nixon was probably the best post-war President because he understood who were America’s actual partners. He came to visit De Gaulle and asked for his advice often. I have translated their meetings in entirety on Amphora. Illuminating conversations.
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Wonderful place
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Regardless of who pays for it, it’s a disaster. Gaza needs a huge amount of funds and this was always obvious as the war dragged on into diminishing returns. As I argued early on, fast wars of decisive victory are the best way to do things, not WWI style grueling conflicts .
Report: Israel agreed to US demand to pay for massive Gaza rubble-clearing operation
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Christmas tree lighting in Bimalkah village in Tartus Governorate
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It’s a tragic story because Gaza deserves to have open access to journalists. But what happened is that it was a Hamas authoritarian state and over time most other media couldn’t get into Gaza or didn’t go, and hired locals who then were co-opted or pressured by the Hamas regime;
Most Gazan journalists killed by IDF had links to terror, new report claims https://t.co/jaPbSD2zxR
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Good news
#New The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs has welcomed two seasoned diplomats with deep experience in #Iraq and the #Kurdistan Region. * Robert Palladino, former U.S. Consul General in Erbil, has been appointed Senior Bureau Official. * Gregory LoGerfo,
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