Required

• Eric Black, from Parallel Realities (Alternatively, try Mike Shuster's NPR series, The Mideast: A Century of Conflict. For a quick review, you might also want to refer to PBS's nutshell History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, an interactive timeline annotated with Israeli and Palestinian views on the history of the region.)
• MERIP, the Middle East Research and Information Project from Middle East Report (includes a Primer on Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict)
• Edward Said, "Bombs and Bulldozers" (The Nation 8 & 15 September 1997). Though the occasion for which this piece was written is long past, its complaint about what Said calls the "bulldozers of forgetfulness" is still timely, as is its reminder that "there was always another people in Palestine, [and] every village, kibbutz, settlement, city and town [in Israel] has an Arab history also."

Recommended

• Z Magazine's Mideast Watch, an exhaustive page of articles and links devoted to alternative coverage of the latest crisis.  Includes Alex R. Shalom and Stephen R. Shalom's indispensible "Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context"
• Israel & West Bank (Encyclopedia Britannica Online--HSU users only)
• Selected online articles originally from The Nation's "Israel at Fifty" issue (May 4, 1998):  Danny Rubinstein, "Israel at Fifty" and Edward Said, "An Orphaned People"
• The website for "Give It To Them," an episode of Public Radio International's This American Life which first aired in early August 2002, includes a splendid page of Links, Books and Resources on the Oslo Accords, Israeli Revisionist History, and firsthand reports from inside Israel and the West Bank.
• Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco, "A Gaza Diary: Scenes from the Palestinian uprising" (Harper's magazine, October 2001)
• "Occupied Voices," an excerpt from Wendy Pearlman's Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada (The Nation online, August 19, 2003)
• Seth Ackerman's"Losing Ground" (pbs.org; originally in Harper's magazine, December 2001) is a map illustrating Arab and Jewish populations in Israel/Palestine under a number of historical and projected scenarios. See also letters critical of Ackerman's map (from the March 2002 issue), along with his response to his critics.