Subterranea
Oren KesslerThe 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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I wrote ‘Palestine 1936.’ The film ‘Palestine 36’ is an affront to history
Hello, friends, and happy 2026! It’s been far too long since I weighed in here, and I apologize for that. Nevertheless I wanted to share with you a piece I published today in my first-ever contribution to The Free Press.
It’s a genre in wh...
Yolande Harmer: Israel's forgotten super-spy in Egypt
Quick note: I try to keep these on the short-ish side, but once I dip into the archives the word count tends to slip my grasp. My genuine apologies — feel free to just look at the photos. Or get the Substack app, where an AI will read this...
Notes from underground
A note: After rebranding this channel as “Undercurrents” just last month, I’m now re-rebranding it as “Subterranea.” Seems fitting.
TEL AVIV — Readers of this Substack know I try to steer clear of the news. This channel’s descriptio...
Before he was Viscount of Alamein, there was Monty of Mount Carmel
A bit of housekeeping: The generically named “Oren’s Substack” is now going by “Undercurrents” (at least until I change it again). The idea being that there are lots of writers analyzing the news, especially here in this corner of the Easte...
If I forget thee, Guiana
In early 1939 the Neville Chamberlain government was laying the groundwork for a White Paper that would slash Jewish immigration to Mandate Palestine in a bid to quell a three-year Arab revolt that had left hundreds of Jews and British serv...
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Author, “Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict,” winner of the 2024 Sami Rohr Prize and a WSJ best book of the year. Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Based in Tel Aviv.
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