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Oren Kessler
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Oren Kessler
@OrenKessler
Author, “Palestine 1936,” winner of the Sami Rohr Prize and a WSJ best book of the year. 2026-'27 Goldman Visiting Prof., @Georgetown. Fellow, @RoyalHistSoc.
- December 5, 2023: The day American academia died.
- I've been working on the Middle East a long time and I have no idea what these words meanDo you remember two years ago when Iraq was going to fight the Kurds in a different part of Syria. Many people wanted us to fight with the Kurds against Iraq, who we just fought for. I said no, and the Kurds left the fight, twice. Now the same thing is happening with Turkey......
- She wasn’t “stranded” in Gaza, as if she had missed her bus. She was sold to a Gazan member of ISIS as human chattel and kept there for years as a sex slave.A Yazidi woman kidnapped from her home by ISIS terrorists in Iraq when she was just 11 years old has been reunited with her family after years stranded in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Iraqi and Israeli officials said Thursday. cbsn.ws/4eJN8aUReaders added contextShe wasn’t “stranded” in Gaza, she was sold to a Gazan Hamas member affiliated with ISIS as human chattel and kept there for years as a sex slave. She was then released by the IDF. foxnews.com/world/yazidi-w… theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…
- Ex-hostage Tal Shoham: “One of the guards was a first-grade teacher, another was a lecturer at a university, and another was a doctor. These are normal people becoming terrorists.”
- Among the long list of Middle East injustices that no one knows or cares about because they don’t involve Israel: Over the last decade Egypt has destroyed – completely, entirely, house by house – the Egyptian side of Rafah
- Spotted in Tel Aviv Includes a November 1944 letter from a Red Cross delegation to Auschwitz that “had not been able to discover any trace of installations for exterminating civilian prisoners.”
- My brother was on the beach when news broke of the four released hostages. This is how the lifeguard announced the news and how the beachgoers responded: “Four hostages have been freed” and then reads their names, with Noa Argamani’s last
00:00 - Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Times. Headline: 2 DOZEN HOSTAGES ARE FREED Photo: Released Palestinian prisoner draped in Hamas flag
- Uncle of hostages Or, 16, and Yagil Yaakov, 12: “they took the leg of each child taken hostage and burned them with the exhaust of a motorcycle to mark them in case they ran away, so that they could find them. They were drugged, they were treated so badly, but they are with us.”
- The family of Oren Goldin of Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak – missing since Oct. 7 – has been informed that he was among those killed on that dark day, 37 days ago. He leaves behind his wife, Oshrit, and twins Aviv and Illy.
- The first photo of the unconquerable Salman Rushdie since his stabbing in August: In the new issue of the @NewYorker newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
- I just switched from Israeli news to CNN and genuinely couldn’t believe it:
