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Jonathan Spyer

Jonathan Spyer is a senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center, a fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a columnist at the Jerusalem Post. He is the author of The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict.

  • Iranians newspapers headlining the deal made with major powers over Iran's disputed nuclear deal are displayed on the ground outside a kiosk in Tehran on November 25, 2013. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
    Iranians newspapers headlining the deal made with major powers over Iran's disputed nuclear deal are displayed on the ground outside a kiosk in Tehran on November 25, 2013. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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    U.S. Blindspot Shows on the Iran Nuclear Deal

    Administration still unconvinced of the danger of Iran’s regional ambitions

    byJonathan Spyer
  • Syrian girls wave portraits of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad as pro-regime supporters parade their cars in Damascus to celebrate Assad's 48th birthday on Sept. 11, 2013.(Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images)
    Syrian girls wave portraits of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad as pro-regime supporters parade their cars in Damascus to celebrate Assad's 48th birthday on Sept. 11, 2013.(Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images)
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    With Help From Tehran and Moscow, and Inaction by the U.S., Assad Is Poised To Stay

    Thanks to outside forces waging a proxy battle in Syria, 2013 has become a year of attrition rather than endgames

    byJonathan Spyer
  • Israelis queue up as they wait to collect their gas masks at a distribution center in Tel Aviv on August 28, 2013. (DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images)
    Israelis queue up as they wait to collect their gas masks at a distribution center in Tel Aviv on August 28, 2013. (DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Gas Masks and Soldiers in Anxious Tel Aviv

    Syria crisis marks the end of a quiet Israeli summer

    byJonathan Spyer
  • A Syrian rebel crosses a street while trying to dodge sniper fire in the old city of Aleppo in northern Syria on March 11, 2013.(JM Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
    A Syrian rebel crosses a street while trying to dodge sniper fire in the old city of Aleppo in northern Syria on March 11, 2013.(JM Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
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    The Lesser of Syria’s Evils

    Top Israeli military and intelligence analysts are divided over which side to back in Syria’s civil war

    byJonathan Spyer
  • Left: An Israeli Merkava tank in the Golan Heights on Nov. 6, 2012. Right: An Israeli woman and children hide in a large concrete pipe during a Palestinian rocket attack on the Israeli town of Netivot on Nov. 12, 2012. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
    Left: An Israeli Merkava tank in the Golan Heights on Nov. 6, 2012. Right: An Israeli woman and children hide in a large concrete pipe during a Palestinian rocket attack on the Israeli town of Netivot on Nov. 12, 2012. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Arab Upheaval Reaches Israel

    The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and the civil war in Syria are bringing violence to Israel’s borders

    byJonathan Spyer
  • Benzion Netanyahu, 1940.(Courtesy of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.)
    Benzion Netanyahu, 1940.(Courtesy of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.)
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    Likud’s Late Grandfather

    It’s the children of Irgun fighters who are known as princes of the Israeli right. But Benzion Netanyahu was a scholar, not an underground militant.

    byJonathan Spyer
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    Among the Insurgents

    Smuggled into Syria, a reporter finds that the Free Syrian Army lacks leadership but is fiercely united against Bashar al-Assad and Iran

    byJonathan Spyer
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