The War Before the War: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Israel-Palestine

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Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Oren Kessler. Oren Kessler is a writer, journalist, and political analyst whose work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He's also the author of Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict. This episode is all about the Arab revolts of the late 1930s, back when what is today Israel was British Mandate Palestine. That revolt set the stage for the war that Israelis call their War of Independence and Arabs call the Nakba, and we could see the seed of many features of today's Israel-Palestine conflict in that revolt. In this conversation, we also talk about whether it's true, as Dave Smith and others frequently allege, that Israel introduced terrorism into the region. So without further ado, Oren Kessler.

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