Highly Recommended (articles from The Nation may require you to be a subscriber; please e-mail me personally for access to any that you wish to read)

• Amos Oz (Wikipedia)
• "Israel Under the Volcano":  interview with Jeremy Caplan (Newsweek, March 1, 1999)
• Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth (The NewsHour, PBS)
• "Amos Oz: Writing the Israeli Paradox" (U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
• David Remnick, "The Spirit Level" (Profile in The New Yorker, November 8, 2004)
• Amos Oz, "An end to Israeli occupation will mean a just war" (London Observer, April 7, 2002)

• Israel & West Bank (Encyclopedia Britannica Online--HSU users only)
• The New York Times series, "Israel at 50" (April/May 1998)
• NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on the controversy over a revisionist history curriculum in Israeli schools (RealAudio file from "All Things Considered," November 15, 1999)

The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

• 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)
• 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"
• 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."
• 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"
• Selected online articles from the "Israel at Fifty" issue of Tikkun: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society (13:2, March/April 1998):  Benny Morris, "Looking Back: A Personal Assessment of the Zionist Experience"; Rashid Khalidi, " A Universal Jubilee? : Palestinians 50 Years after 1948"; Amoz Oz, " A Monologue: Behind the Sound and Fury"; and Kathleen Kern, " A Christian Perspective "
• 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.
• "The Lemon Tree," a radio documentary featuring an Israeli and a Palestianian who both share claim to the same house.  (This feature aired on NPR's "Fresh Air," April 24, 1998 and May 7, 1999. The audio link on the "Fresh Air" site seems to be broken, but it can also be found at the TCIAF Feature Archive.)
• 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.

• In "An Antiwar Movement Grows in Israel" (The Nation, February 25, 2002), Neve Gordon gives a brief report on Israeli soldiers refusing to serve in the occupied territories.  See also the Refuser Solidarity Network and and Yesh Gvul ("There Is a Limit"), an organization of Israeli Defence Forces soldiers opposed to the occupation.
• In answer to Gordon's question, "Where Are the Peaceniks?" (The Nation, 29 April 2002), see the websites of the Ta'ayush movement (Israeli activists opposed to Sharon's policies in the occupied territories), Rabbis for Human Rights, and the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, as well as three US-based organizations: Brit Tzedek v'Shalom (Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace--see also http://bringthemhome.btvshalom.org), Not In My Name, and Jewish Voices Against the Occupation. Alexander Cockburn surveys some of these organizations in "The Nightmare in Israel" (The Nation 25 March 2002), as does Roane Carey in "The Other Israel" (The Nation February 3, 2003).
• One of the more controversial voices in Israeli journalism is Amira Hass, who has lived in the Gaza Strip for many years, reporting on the harsh conditions of Palestinian life under military occupation. (The ZNet archive linked here also contains many articles by Edward Said, Neve Gordon, Uri Avnery, and other prominent opponents of Israeli policy.)
• Finally, in "The Jewish Divide on Israel" (The Nation 12 July 2004), Esther Kaplan examines how AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) maintains a "politically correct" stranglehold on American Jewish opinion about Israel, and she surveys American Jewish dissent.