Lara’s Substack
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Engrossed by Tom Segev's history of Palestine
The Mayor of Jerusalem, Hussein Salim Al-Husseini (with walking stick and cigarette), with his party under a white flag-of-truce, attempts to deliver the surrender document signed by the Ottoman Governor Izzat Pasha just outside Jerusalem’s...
I'm published in a real journal!
Well, this one had been in the works for a while, with delays I believe were largely due to the U.S. Government shutdown. I’m in the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence, Volume 70, No. 2, June 2026, article entitled "Three Pillars of Identi...
The Inconvenient History of the Third Aliyah
Injured Jews from the city of Khodorkiv after a pogrom, 1919.
On December 20, 1919, the S.S. Ruslan, which had departed out of the Port of Odesa over a month earlier, arrived at the port of Jaffa in British-controlled Palestine.
Jaffa un...
How did the Palestinians feel about the early Zionists?
Well of St. Mary, Nazareth, January 1, 1890. Color photograph by French photographer Félix Bonfils.
In the past couple of weeks, after I posted this:
I’ve had various friends reach out and say, “Well, are you going to talk about how the...
The AU Library has summer hours now
Since last week’s post,
I’ve been vexed by a question I posed in that post, which is, why did the Palestinian fellahin (peasants) put up with abuse from the Jewish farmers they worked for? Also, why were they working for 40% lower salaries...
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Former intelligence oversight officer, now examining the historical intersection of colonialism and national security. A little obsessed with the Westphalian nation-state construct and its limitations.
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