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Oren Kessler

@orenkessler.bsky.social
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Author, “Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict,” winner of the Sami Rohr Prize and a Wall Street Journal best book of the year. TLV/DC.

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Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Good to see The Free Press acknowledging the blindingly obvious: "There is no modern parallel for the scale and shamelessness with which the president is enriching himself in office." www.thefp.com/p/trump-fina...
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Trump’s Art of the Self-Deal
There is no modern parallel for the scale and shamelessness with which the president is enriching himself in office.
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Markus Roth @markusroth.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Leseempfehlung: Das Buch von @orenkessler.bsky.social über den sog. arabischen Aufstand ab 1936 beleuchtet einen zentralen Abschnitt in der langen Geschichte des sog. Nahostkonflikts. Sehr lehrreich, dazu noch anschaulich geschrieben. Erschienen bei @kiwiverlag.bsky.social
Cover des Buches „Palästina 1936“Inhaltsverzeichnis des Buches „Palästina 1936“
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dertim21.bsky.social @dertim21.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) - Schriftenreihe Palästina 1936 Der Große Aufstand und die Wurzeln des Nahostkonflikts von Oren Kessler www.bpb.de/shop/buecher...
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Palästina 1936 | bpb.de
1936 begann im britischen Mandatsgebiet Palästina ein dreijähriger Aufstand der arabischen Bevölkerung. Oren Kessler beleuchtet dieses für die Geschichte des Nahostkonfliktes folgenreiche Ereignis.
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Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
First sighting of the Hebrew edition in the wild! @ Tola’at Sfarim/Bookworm, Rabin Square @_Steimatzky @ Adraba Books, Jerusalem
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Ann Cathrin Riedel @anncathrin87.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Die ersten ausführlichen Empfehlungen meiner Sommerlektüre aus dem Urlaub sind online. Mit dabei: @fawazgerges.bsky.social, Fathollah-Nejad, Hope/Scheck, @orenkessler.bsky.social, Abu Saif, Dahrendorf und Zweig. Hier lesen und abonnieren: anncathrin.substack.com/p/the-book-i...
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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"It begins with a phone alert from IDF Home Front Command that a missile barrage has been detected. That leaves a brief window (30 minutes at first, now closer to 10) to get to safety." — @orenkessler.bsky.social orenkessler.substack.com/p/notes-from...
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Notes from underground
Scenes from a bomb shelter (mine), and thoughts on the present apocalypse
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Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/orenkess...
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Before the 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
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Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
My latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/orenkess...
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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
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Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
New Substack post: 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. open.substack.com/pub/orenkess...
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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.
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Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Publication day / Publikationstag 👇🏻 www.amazon.de/-/en/Pal%C3%...
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Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Publication day / Publikationstag 👇🏻 www.amazon.de/-/en/Pal%C3%...
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Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
First sighting of the German edition — coming March 18… www.amazon.de/-/en/Pal%C3%...
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Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Now in paperback! OrenKessler.com
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Now listening to "Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict" by @orenkessler.bsky.social.
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Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Now in paperback! OrenKessler.com
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Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My latest on Substack: When Mencken came to Palestine Exactly 90 years ago, America’s most famous and wickedest pundit – whose views on Jews were ‘mixed’ at best – became its unlikeliest Zionist orenkessler.substack.com/p/when-menck...
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When Mencken came to Palestine
90 years ago, America’s wickedest pundit – whose views on Jews were ‘mixed’ at best – became its unlikeliest Zionist
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