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Seth Frantzman

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Seth Frantzman

@sfrantzman

Middle East security analyst, Phd, author of #TheOctober7War bylines @Jerusalem_Post @BreakingDefense adjunct fellow @FDD Exec Dir @MidEast_Center @GulfIsrael;

Joined March 2009

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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
Jul 29, 2024
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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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
Oct 8, 2025
What? This is the first sentence in the article. Israel didn’t launch a war in Gaza. Hamas attacked Israel, and Israel responded. This would be like saying in December 1943 that “it’s been two years since the U.S. launched its war in Japan.”
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
Oct 4, 2025
Zero chance this happened
Anadolu English
@anadoluagency
Oct 4, 2025
#BREAKING “They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” says Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
Jun 10, 2024
One thing you'll notice after the Israeli raid that rescued four hostages is how deep the divide is on this. Many people are happy with the rescue. Then there are the voices who describe it as a "release" of four hostages and focus primarily on the claims that many people were
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
Feb 21, 2024
When Hamas launched the October 7 attack, likely with backing and advise from several countries that host and back Hamas, it knew that there would be an Israeli response. It assumed if it took enough a hostages then it could somehow force talks to go on for years...while it
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
May 8, 2024
The story of the US delaying munitions for Israel is getting a lot of coverage, the BBC call it the "biggest warning yet for Israel." So here's my question. While countries are growing frustrated with the long war in Gaza, have there been any real repercussions for Hamas since
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
Nov 27, 2023
Just trying to understand something. Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire. But none of the protesting groups in the West celebrated this. None of them are happy that hostages are coming home. So it's hard to take their protests seriously. It wasn't about "ceasefire" was it?
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
Dec 10, 2024
israel's minor incursion into a buffer zone on the Golan, where no people live, is being portrayed as a major story; while Ankara attacking Tal Rifaat, Manbij and Kobani and killing civilians and displacing tens of thousands of people, primarily Kurds, is not even covered.
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
Jun 1, 2025
Why did CNN deel the need to put "peaceful" in quotes. The idea is to make it seem that there is a question as to whether it was peaceful.
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
Jun 10, 2024
Replying to @sfrantzman
Most of those who condemn the operation put up talking points such as "200 killed to release 4". These commentators NEVER condemn the taking of hostages in the first place, and they NEVER condemn Hamas for unlawfully keeping hostages in civilian areas
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
May 20, 2024
Yesterday Israel's IDF released two videos that Hamas made in Gaza in October. The videos were found by the IDF in "raw footage filmed by Hamas for their psychological terror videos." The videos show 8-year-old Ela Elyakim 15-year-old sister, Dafna Elyakim, "Ela’s family asked
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
Jan 19, 2025
What strikes me most about this photo is how it's a sea of men and one woman. It is symbolic about what Hamas and its backers are. It's about more than chauvinism and hatred of women and the way in which thousands of men can be mobilized with rifles to try to kidnap women. It's
Aviva Klompas
@AvivaKlompas
Jan 19, 2025
This is Doron Steinbrecher at the handover in Gaza. To the last moment they surrounded and tormented the hostages.
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
May 9, 2024
One of the greatest misconceptions of the war, in my view, is that Hamas has taken heavy losses and is somehow on the ropes. It is not. Hamas has returned to 90 percent of Gaza, mostly because Israel left every place it "cleared." The evidence for this is that Israel has gone
Jacob Magid
@JacobMagid
May 9, 2024
The White House indicates that it has taken the far-reaching step of threatening to withhold aid from Israel at this stage in the war because it feels that Hamas has been significantly depleted. (1/5)
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
May 20, 2024
The reports that almost 1 million people have evacuated Rafah as the IDF operation has taken place there since May 6, in the wake of the Hamas attack on Kerem Shalom...shows that it was possible to get civilians to evacuate. It also shows something else
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