Palestine 1936

"Kessler's history is key to understanding the current situation between Israelis and Palestinians." -Booklist, Starred Review
Palestine 1936 chronicles the 1936-1939 Great Arab Revolt, a seminal but forgotten uprising a decade before Israel's birth that has cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict ever since.

Oren Kessler is a journalist and political analyst based in Tel Aviv. He has served as deputy director for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, Middle East research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, Arab affairs correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, and an editor and translator at Haaretz English edition.
Raised in Rochester, New York, and Tel Aviv, he holds a BA in history from the University of Toronto and an MA in diplomacy and conflict studies from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).
Kessler's work has appeared in media outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy,the Wall Street Journal,the Washington Post,and Politico. Palestine 1936 is his first book and has been favorably reviewed by Booklist with a starred review, The Wall Street Journal, Foreword Reviews, Commentary, The Jerusalem Report, and more.
Visit his website here: orenkessler.com.