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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
Mahatma Gandhi’s Zionist ‘soulmate’
The Great Soul opposed Jewish statehood. His ‘lifelong companion’ left his fortune to Israel and his ashes in Galilee
 • Oren Kessler
When Mencken came to Palestine
90 years ago, America’s wickedest pundit – whose views on Jews were ‘mixed’ at best – became its unlikeliest Zionist
 • 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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