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Jerusalism and The Tel Aviv Review of Books present a conversation with Haggai Ram on his recent book about the story of hashish.
In the Middle East, hashish has always been more than just a way of passing the day. From the end of the Ottoman Empire on, hashish has often played a pivotal – if largely unacknowledged – role in successive rounds of jostling for social and political hegemony. Nowhere more so than in Mandatory Palestine, key waystation for distributing the (illegal) substance across the region and a thriving consumption market to boot. After the establishment of the State of Israel, Hashish continued to influence social discourse in many ways: an effective means of enforcing socio-political boundaries, an instrument of criminal activity writ both large and small, and – perhaps unexpectedly – an occasional tool for geo-political meddling.
JEA: almost every serious journalist and writer now believes that Israel was behind the death of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeth. But that would almost certainly have been impossible if the United States and other US allies were putting pressure on Israel. In fact, one can say that the death of Fakhrizadeth was invariably a gift from the United States. Why?
The United States has been giving Israel at least 3 billion dollars every single year, and with Trump on the throne, the Israelis have been able to do just about anything they wanted. It was Trump himself who literally destroyed the peace deal Obama established with the Iranians.