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Jonathan Spyer is a Middle East analyst, author and journalist specialising in the areas of Israel, Lebanon, Syria and broader issues of regional strategy. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, a research centre located at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (IDC), and a Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Jonathan Spyer's articles

The Iran-Israel War and Learning from Frogs: An Interview with Jonathan Spyer

By Jonathan Spyer
 Journalist and Middle East analyst Jonathan Spyer talks to Fathom about the Iranian threat and the Western response... Read more > May 2024

My Israeli Music | Jonathan Spyer

By Jonathan Spyer
 Jonathan Spyer is an Israeli analyst, writer, and journalist of Middle Eastern affairs. He emigrated to Israel from London... Read more > January 2022

It’s too soon to write the obituary of the anti-Iran alliance in the Middle East

By Jonathan Spyer
 The claim that the pro-Western alliance in the region has collapsed in the wake of a US withdrawal... Read more > November 2021

IsraelVotes2019 | Towards a consensus on National Security issues?

By Jonathan Spyer
 To what extent is the current Israeli election campaign dominated by national security issues, as has historically been... Read more > March 2019

The space between the Iraq-Iran border and the Mediterranean Sea today constitutes a single arena of conflict, by Jonathan Spyer

By Jonathan Spyer
 Jonathan Spyer is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and a freelance security analyst and correspondent for... Read more > February 2018

‘Where is Syria going? A Round Table with Jonathan Spyer

By Jonathan Spyer
 The Fathom editors hold a monthly invite-only round table discussion in our London office between a policy expert... Read more > Summer 2016

Is it Iran’s Middle East now?

By Jonathan Spyer
 Leading regional expert Jonathan Spyer thinks not. While the single best organised and most aggressive alliance active currently... Read more > Autumn 2015

IS and the incoherence of Western policy

By Jonathan Spyer
 The West wants to destroy IS but it has neither allies on the ground nor a grasp of... Read more > Autumn 2014

Jonathan Spyer | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?

By Jonathan Spyer
 Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just Israelis and Gazans, but... Read more > Summer 2014

Disaster in the Levant: the Syrian Civil War in its fourth year

By Jonathan Spyer
 Jonathan Spyer is one of the few policy experts to regularly visit the front lines in Syria. In... Read more > Spring 2014

The ISIS-Kurdish War

By Jonathan Spyer
 Jonathan Spyer, a Middle East analyst, author and journalist specialising in the areas of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria... Read more > Summer 2014

The Syrian civil war

By Jonathan Spyer
 The end of the Assad regime will probably not mark the end of the civil war but a... Read more > Spring 2013

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