Jonathan Spyer

Jonathan Spyer is a research fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies and a columnist at the Jerusalem Post. He is the author of The Transforming Fire: the Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict.
Articles by Jonathan Spyer
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech in front of a picture of Zeev Jabotinsky.

Israel’s Likud Isn’t the Party of Law and Order Anymore
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Jonathan Spyer
Masked Palestinian militants carry what is supposed to be explosives for suicide bombers during a demonstrations marking the anniversary of the second intifada, in the northern West Bank town of Nablus on Sept. 28, 2003.

The End of the Age of Insurgency
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Jonathan Spyer
President Donald Trump salutes while joined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a military carry team moves the transfer case containing the remains of Scott A. Wirtz at Dover Air Force Base on Jan. 19, 2019 in Delaware.

Trump’s Syria Policy Is Working
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Jonathan Spyer
Fighter of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are seen at a position in the village of Baghouz, near Syria's border with Iraq, in the eastern Deir Ezzor province on March 15, 2019. (Delil Suleiman/ AFP/Getty Images)

Syria’s Civil War Is Now 3 Civil Wars
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Jonathan Spyer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with soldiers October 15, 2013 in the Israeli-occupied territory of Golan Heights. (Kobi Gideon/GPO via Getty Images)

Israel’s Secret War Against Iran Is Widening
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Jonathan Spyer
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