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
The Transforming Fire sets out to explain how the rise of Islamism is changing the nature of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
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.
"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
"Jonathan Spyer's The Transforming Fire is a dazzling book but it
is not a simple book. Steeped in learning, alert to nuance,
comprehending of momentous changes in the world of the Muslims, he
has written a work that deeply understands the Islamic threat to
Israel and how Israel will defeat it." --Martin Peretz, Editor in
Chief, The New Republic
"Jonathan Spyer, one of the smartest commentators on the Middle
East, has written a brilliant, heartbreaking account of life and
death in contemporary Israel. A seamless weave of analysis
and memoir, "The Transforming Fire" should be on the very
short list of indispensable books about Israel and the Middle East
conflict." -Yossi Klein Halevi, author of At the Entrance to the
Garden of Eden, and Israel correspondent and contributing editor of
The New Republic.
"How can a society remain perpetually ready for war yet uncorrupted
by the readiness? It is a question posed by Jonathan Spyer in "The
Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict," and
it's a thoughtful question that highlights the book's composition
as equal parts philosophical memoir and strategic analysis." -The
Washington Times
"To read The Transforming Fire is to discover a thoughtful Israeli
who might well have been killed fighting Islamists. Making sense of
it, Jonathan Spyer is clear that among other consequences Islamism
has given the old Arab-Israeli dispute a new ideological character,
one so intractable that Arabs and Israelis will be engaged in a
test of strength for a long time. This is one of those rare books
in which experience and ideas support one another, and altogether
illuminate what to expect in today?s Middle East." --David
Pryce-Jones
‘Jonathan Spyer's new book is like a breath of fresh air in the
stifling public area of public Mideast discourse, not only for its
bracing content, but also for its insistence that history is a
combination of ideological motivations and real people who live by
them... It's an excellent book. Read it.'
*yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com*
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