Jonathan Spyer | Middle East Analysis and Reportage

Jerusalem Post, 16/2
“You meet the terrorist at the end of the process, on the road, but there’s a whole system that leads up to that point, so if you can hit at what lies behind, and prevent it, then  that works too,” Major Shlomo Ohayon tells me, as we sit in his command...

Jerusalem Post, 3/2
On Sunday, January 28, three US service personnel from the US Army Reserve’s 718 Engineer Company were killed at the Tower 22 outpost on the Jordan-Syrian border. An additional 34 soldiers were wounded, some suffering traumatic brain injuries. The dead...

The Spectator, 2/2
The US has failed to stop Iran and its proxies
Nine years ago, with Vice President Joe Biden at his side, US President Barack Obama announced the Iran nuclear deal. Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime would eliminate its stockpile of medium enriched uranium, reduce by two thirds the number of its gas centrifuges...

The Australian, 14-15/10
I was at Heathrow Airport, waiting for a plane back to Israel when messages, initially casual and nonchalant, began to appear on my Whatsapp feed.  It was Simchat Torah, the last day of the Jewish High Holy Days, and I was sitting among a large contingent...