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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Review: Jonathan Spyer’s The Transforming Fire: The Best Book on Israel in Thirty Years
Barry Rubin- 05/01/2011 In my opinion, this is probably the best book on Israel to be published in 30 years. But it is even more than that, since it is also the story of the rise of revolutionary Islamism–and the … Continue reading
Interview: The Transforming Fire
FrontPageMac.com- 29/12/2010 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Jonathan Spyer, a researcher at the Gobal Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya, and a columnist at the Jerusalem Post. He is the author of the new book, The Transforming Fire – … Continue reading
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Interview: It’s Fight or Flight
Jerusalem Post- 29/12/2010 In the final days of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Jonathan Spyer and his Armored Corps reserve unit were sent to capture ground north of el-Khiam, a village just a few kilometers away from the border. As … Continue reading
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The Perfect Iranian Storm on the Horizon
Pajamas Media-25/08/2010 Jonathan Spyer is not your typical Israeli journalist and political analyst. He has a PhD in International Relations, he fought in Lebanon during the summer war of 2006, then went back to Lebanon as a civilian on a … Continue reading
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CiF Watch interview with Jonathan Spyer, author of “The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict”
07/03/2011 CiF Watch interview with Jonathan Spyer, author of “The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict” AL: I was struck by your passage about how the “mythical Israel” has gained traction beyond Islamist circles. You describe this mythical … Continue reading
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Review: The Transforming Fire The Rise Of The Israel-Islamist Conflict
By Steve McDonald The Transforming Fire The Rise Of The Israel-Islamist Conflict By Jonathan Spyer Continuum 2010, 240 pp. NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher was bang on when he recently wrote that “Israel has to be the most analyzed yet least … Continue reading
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Review: New Cold War in Middle East
Seth Mandel, February 2, 2011 THE TRANSFORMING FIRE: THE RISE OF THE ISRAEL- ISLAMIST CONFLICT By Jonathan Spyer Continuum, $29.95, 240 pages How can a society remain perpetually ready for war yet uncorrupted by the readiness? It is a question … Continue reading
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Review:Under Fire
January 5, 2011 BY Sol Stern The second Lebanon war in the summer of 2006 forced Israelis to come to grips with the definitive end of the Oslo era and the shattering of two fundamental assumptions about the nature of … Continue reading
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Review: Israel’s Stand Against Islamism Holds
January 5, 2011 – by P. David Hornik In his new book, The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict, Jonathan Spyer maintains that what was once called the Arab-Israeli conflict has evolved into something with a different coloration, … Continue reading
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Review: How Islamism—With Iran at its Center and Flanked by the Global Left–Can Be Defeated
Posted By Seth Mandel On December 22, 2010 @ 3:00 pm In Feature,News | 2 Comments One night in August 2006, Jonathan Spyer’s unit in the Israel Defense Forces prepared to head into South Lebanon to reinforce their fellow soldiers … Continue reading
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