Jonathan Spyer | Middle East Analysis and Reportage

Jerusalem Post, 07/02
An interview with an October 7 survivor, Gaza combat veteran, and advocate for IDF reservists, who is now entering Israeli politics.
“About 100 meters outside of Tsohar, the Ravshatz (community security officer) saw a convoy of 15 motorbikes heading towards them on the road leading to the yishuv,” Shlomi Damri tells me.  “He said to his deputy ‘wow – look how quickly the police have...

The US action in Venezuela has led to a flurry of punditry asserting that the Trump Administration is bringing into being a new world based on the open assertion of raw, great power state interest and the emergence of spheres of influence and hegemony...

8/12
I was sad to learn last week of the death of David Pryce-Jones at the age of 89.   David was a fascinating man.  When you met him, you were immediately struck by an odd combination: his manners and style were British aristocratic, and this made the first...

Australian, 18/10
At the Gama Junction, a few kilometers from the Gaza border,  I met Gadi Mozes.  Among the crowd of people waiting to greet the convoy bearing the last 13 of the living Israeli hostages from Gaza.  Gadi, who is 80 years old, is a member of Kibbutz Nir...