Jonathan Spyer

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Israel SitRep: November 25, 2024

Today’s Issue: | IAF Strikes Dozens of Targets in Lebanon and Eliminates Hamas Commander and October 7 Terrorist | IAF Continues Pounding Dahieh; Over the Weekend, IAF Struck Hezbollah Weapons Smuggling...

May 17, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Bashar al-Assad is back

And the Arab League’s got him

July 23, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Jonathan Spyer

US investigates Qatar over claims that it finances Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps

The State Department has opened an inquiry into an Israeli government report that Qatar’s monarchy funded Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. “We...

July 7, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The Divided Self of John le Carré

The death of perhaps history’s greatest espionage writer John le Carré in December 2020 sparked a series of lively debates about the British novelist’s contradictory views toward Zionism, Jews and...

October 28, 2020 | Jonathan Spyer, Benjamin Weinthal

America Should Not Sell F-35 Fighter Planes to the Qatari Regime

Israeli energy minister Yuval Steinitz, speaking to the Ynet website on Sunday, expressed concern that despite Jerusalem’s objections, Qatar will eventually acquire state-of-the-art Lockheed Martin...

August 5, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal, Jonathan Spyer

Qatar’s alleged finance of Hezbollah terrorist movement puts US troops at risk, dossier claims

There are nearly 10,000 U.S. troops stationed in the Middle Eastern country

July 15, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Big increase of Palestinian terrorist members, supporters in Germany

Support for the the PFLP has risen, which was founded in 1967 and is animated by a Marxist-Leninist doctrine coupled with radical Arab nationalism.

September 7, 2018 | Bill Roggio

Iraqi Militant Qayis Khazali Warned Us About Iran. We Ignored Him.

Iran has its tentacles all over Iraq, and the United States has no one to blame but itself. It is a bipartisan failure dating back to the March 2003 invasion. Even after the Bush administration a...

December 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iranian Kurds Join the Fight

Co-written by Jonathan Spyer The instability that has swept over the Middle East over the past half-decade has its winners and its losers. For the most part, the much-...

February 27, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran Working as Strategic Partner with Hezbollah Against Israel

Co-authored by Jonathan Spyer  All is not quiet on the northern front between Israel and Syria/Lebanon. The recen...

March 12, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Not Quiet on the Northern Front

Co-authored by Jonathan Spyer The disintegration of the Syrian state into warring enclaves is bringing with it new challenges and threats for Israel. Alarm bells have now been s...

December 9, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Why Is the Obama Administration Courting Hezbollah?

Co-authored by Jonathan Spyer Evidence has recently emerged suggesting that the U.S. has opened a line of direct communication with the Lebanese Shia Islamist organiza...

September 12, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

The Battle of Syria

Twelve years ago today, we were staring at smoking rubble in downtown Manhattan and at the Pentagon, counting the dead, wondering who had committed this atrocity and why, fearful of what they mig...

August 16, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

Where Is Egypt Headed?

Egypt is caught in an authoritarian vise. On the one hand, the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated former president Mohamed Morsi and his Islamic supporters trampled roughshod over the rights and liber...

April 12, 2013 | Tony Badran NOW Lebanon |

Iran Uses Lebanese to Project Its Regional Power

Last week, Saudi Arabia announced that the spy cel...

December 4, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

Going to War?

Fellow PJM columnist Jonathan Spyer, one of the best reporters on things Syrian, now believes that...

November 26, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post |

EU Ignores Most of Hezbollah Terror in Ban Decision

The 27-member European Union has largely circled the wagons around the investigation into Hezbollah’s role in the July...

November 13, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post |

Analysis: Hezbollah’s Lethal Anti-Semitism

There are a great many reasons whirling around within European foreign ministries to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Compelling arguments include the Lebanese Shi’ite group&rsqu...

March 2, 2012 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard |

Total Collapse

A number of recent articles make the case that...

February 27, 2012 | Tony Badran NOW Lebanon |

Homs and Achrafieh

Since February 3, the city of Homs has been under a sustained, and increasingly heavy, bombardment by the Assad regime’s forces. According to...