Jonathan Spyer

Spectator, 19/8: The current, troubled and glacial diplomatic process between Israel, the US/‘Board of Peace’ and the de facto Hamas authority in Gaza is a derivative of a fact which is difficult to swallow for Israelis: namely, that despite two years of…

While looking for something else recently, I came across a long and interesting interview with Patrick Hayes, a former Provisional IRA terrorist who was jailed for 30 years for his part in the second Harrods bombing in London in 1992, and who was then rel…

Jerusalem Post, 11/4 The (mercifully brief and now concluded) incarceration of the US freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson in Iraq at the hands of the Shia militia Ktaeb Hizballah reveals much about who really runs Iraq.

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.

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.

Australian, 18/10 At the Gama Junction, a few kilometers from the Gaza border, I met Gadi Mozes.

There has been much online talk in recent months about the possibility of ‘civil war’ in the UK.

I remember the light in the Valley of Ela on the day of Shani Louk’s funeral.

Jerusalem Post, 24/1 In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight years, I decided to see what remained of the city’s once flourishing Jewish community.