The Transforming Fire

ISBN-13: 9781441166630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 240 str.

Jonathan Spyer

Opis

Intends to explain how the rise of Islamism is changing the nature of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours. Combining narrative and argument, the author uses first-person accounts of key moments in the conflict to highlight the human impact of this battle of wills.

Recenzje

"With talent and insight, Jonathan Spyer humanizes the impact of Israel's having to fight a new enemy, not states but Islamist terror organizations, Hizbullah and Hamas in particular. Reading his book is poignantly and vicariously to live through the past decade of Israel's turmoil, with its many attendant tragedies and its few triumphs." -- Daniel Pipes, Director, Middle East Forum

Spis treści

Prologue. "Not all of us will be coming back"
1. History's Resurrection
2. Muqawama: Islamism's rise
3. A New Jerusalem
4. The Middle East Cold War
5. Conversations in the Season of Remembrance
6. Broken Borders
7. A Grave Missed Opportunity
8. The Verdict of Deir Mimas
9. The Transforming Fire

O autorze

Jonathan Spyer immigrated to Israel from Britain in 1991. He is a senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya, Israel, and a columnist at the Jerusalem Post newspaper. Spyer holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a Masters' Degree in Middle East Politics from SOAS in London. He served in a front-line unit of the Israel Defense Forces in 1992-3, and fought in the war in Lebanon in summer 2006. Between 1996 and 2000, Spyer was an employee of the Israel Prime Minister's Office. His articles have also appeared in the Guardian, Haaretz, London Times, Washington Times,Toronto Globe and Mail, the Australian, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Israel Affairs and Middle East Review of International Affairs.