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I wrote ‘Palestine 1936.’ The film ‘Palestine 36’ is an affront to history
In The Free Press, I review an Oscar-shortlisted film, funded by Qatar, Turkey, and the BBC, that rewrites the past to serve a modern political agenda
 • Oren Kessler
Yolande Harmer: Israel's forgotten super-spy in Egypt
Harmer was Israel's most important spy in 1948, infiltrating the royal palace, Muslim Brotherhood and Arab League. Her legacy deserves to be honored
 • Oren Kessler
Notes from underground
Scenes from a bomb shelter (mine), and thoughts on the present apocalypse
 • Oren Kessler
Before he was Viscount of Alamein, there was Monty of Mount Carmel
A few years before halting the Nazis in Egypt, the irascible general commanded a counterinsurgency from his Haifa HQ
 • Oren Kessler
If I forget thee, Guiana
On the eve of the Holocaust, Britain closed the gates to the Holy Land and proposed a Jewish homeland in South America
 • Oren Kessler
Reinventing Gaza, then and now
Trump's vision of a 'Riviera of the Middle East' has a century-old precedent. It didn't end well.
 • Oren Kessler
A ‘fanatic’ as long as he breathes: Ibn Saud vs. the grand mufti
In secret 1939 letter, Saudi Arabia’s founder warned Hajj Amin would lead Palestinians to ruin. He wasn’t alone
 • Oren Kessler
Subterranea
Subterranea
The buried, the overlooked, the obscured. Archival digs into the world’s most written-about, and least understood, patch of earth: The one between the river and the sea.

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