The Transforming Fire

The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict

Jonathan Spyer

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English

Continuum
20 January 2011

History; Comparative politics; International relations

"""The Transforming Fire"" sets out to explain how the rise of Islamism is changing the nature of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours. For a time, the Arab-Israeli conflict seemed a fight over real-estate and recognition, but in recent years it has transformed into an existential battle between Israel and radical Islamism. Today, Israel faces a rising force that is committed to its demise. Spyer, who served as a special advisor on international affairs to Israeli Cabinet ministers, provides a vivid account of what can now be called the Israel-Islamist conflict, outlining the issues at stake and gauging each side's relative strengths and weaknesses. Israel faces not one united Islamist movement, but an array of states and organizations that share a wish to destroy Jewish sovereignty. Combining narrative and argument, Spyer uses first-person accounts of key moments in the conflict to highlight the human impact of this battle of wills. A thought-provoking, balanced work, ""The Transforming Fire"" provides a new understanding of a particular aspect of the larger conflict between radical Islam and West, which may well become the key foreign policy challenge of the 21st century."

By: Jonathan Spyer
Imprint: Continuum
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 506g
ISBN: 9781441166630
ISBN 10: 1441166637
Publication Date: 20 January 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict

Reading [Spyer's] 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, one of the smartest commentators on the Middle East, has written a brilliant, heartbreaking account of life and death in contemporary Israel -Yossi Klein Halevi, author of At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden, and Israel correspondent and contributing editor of The New Republic. 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