Background Info on the Conflict
Explore the long cycle of violence and turbulent conditions that led to the Hamas terrorists attack and subsequent Israeli atrocities. Chronology of events.
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- The forgotten Israeli hostages kept by Hamas in Gaza for years - BBC 21.10.23 378786
- Germany must face its issues over Israel and the past. Silencing a Palestinian author won’t help - Guardian 20.10.23 388607
- Podcast: Palestinian Resistance vs. The Zionist Project w/ Max Ajl & Patrick Higgins - Guerilla History 20.10.23 384756
- “Divide and Rule”: How Israel Helped Start Hamas to Weaken Palestinian Hopes for Statehood - DN! 20.10.23 379045
- ‘No Sanctuary’: Israel’s Long War on Gaza - Z Network 19.10.23 382496
- How Palestine became Israel's spyaware test-bed - New Internationalist 19.10.23 382890
- What are the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict? - The Guardian 18.10.23 378440
- Timeline: A look into the long history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - abc News 17.10.23 378437
- Revisiting an Interview with a Leader of Hamas - Foreign Policy in Focus 16.10.23 386679
- "Is history repeating itself?": article by Adam Keller, Gush Shalom - Workers Liberty 16.10.23 378317
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Council on Foreign Relations 16.10.23 379170
- Israel-Hamas war: history shows the dangers of a creeping occupation - The Conversation 16.10.23 378439
- Understanding The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Guide From War On The Rocks - War On The Rocks 16.10.23 378441
- Navigating turbulence: Israel-Hamas war and its financial impact - Wion 16.10.23 377490
- Lessons from The Fifth Arab-Israeli War - Geopolitical Monitor 16.10.23 377809
- Israel Gaza war: History of the conflict explained - BBC 16.10.23 377494
- For Generation Oslo, 'peace' is an empty promise - The New Arab 15.10.23 380807
- How Hamas secretly built a 'mini-army' to fight Israel - The Japan Times 14.10.23 377388
- Military Analysis of Israel Hamas War - Next Big Future 14.10.23 377389
- Video: Ehud Barak and Hanan Ashrawi on the years of failed attempts at peace for Israelis and Palestinians - PBS 14.10.23 379621
- How Hamas compares with the Israeli military machine - India Today 14.10.23 377392
- Hamas’s surprise attack has echoes of Israeli intelligence failure in 1973 - ASPI Strategist 13.10.23 377398
- Gaza: The Caged Context - Palestine Studies 13.10.23 384766
- The how and what of the latest Israel-Hamas war - University of Colorado Boulder 13.10.23 379171
- What did Hamas aim to gain by its brazen attack on Israel? Here's what to know - NPR 12.10.23 377390
- Video: How Israel Was Created - Al Jazeera 12.10.23 383089
- Opinion: The Hamas attack on Israel reflects an intelligence failure. But that’s not the worst failure - Los Angeles Times 12.10.23 377393
- What You Need to Know About the Iran-backed Terror Group Hamas and its Attack on Israel - American Jewish Committee (AJC) 12.10.23 377394
- Hamas' surprise attack and its geopolitical implications - Daily Sabah 12.10.23 377395
- Six Takeaways from the Israel-Palestine Conflict - The Wire 12.10.23 377396
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Timeline - Council on Foreign Relations 11.10.23 376803
- How Did the Israel-Palestinian Conflict Start? - VOA 11.10.23 376802
- A brief history of Gaza's 75 years of woe - Swiss Info 11.10.23 376341
- Explained: Revisiting Israel-Palestine historical conflict amid new escalation by Hamas - WION 11.10.23 376801
- Daily Review: The Israel-Hamas Information War - World Politics Review 11.10.23 377397
- Egypt warned Israel days before Hamas struck, US committee chairman says - BBC 11.10.23 376660
- The Israel-Palestine conflict did not erupt overnight - TRT World Research Centre 11.10.23 410836
- Energy Market Implications of the Israel-Hamas Conflict - Center for Strategic & International Studies 11.10.23 377491
- Israel-Hamas War: A challenge for the ‘new’ Middle East - ORF 11.10.23 377492
- The Geopolitics of Palestine, Explained - Foreign Policy 10.10.23 376338
- What an Israeli Ground Invasion Would Mean for Gaza - TIME 10.10.23 376339
- Video: Israel and the Palestinians: a century of conflict - Economist 10.10.23 377198
- Video: Israeli Conscientious Objector Haggai Matar: Hamas Attack Reflects Israeli Violence in Palestine - DN! 10.10.23 376797
- The savagery of the war against the Palestinian people - Peoples Dispatch 10.10.23 376342
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Over 100 Years Of History - Barron’s 10.10.23 376340
- Video: Palestinian Counter-Offensive Was Decades in the Making - BreakThrough News 10.10.23 384761
- George Habash on Morality and the Palestinian Revolution: “Our Code of Morals is Our Revolution” - Ebb Mag. 10.10.23 384770
- What's the Israel-Palestinian conflict about? The origin of wars explained - Reuters 10.10.23 376335
- The crisis shows the failure of Israeli policy towards Palestinians, says Shlomo Brom - The Economist 10.10.23 376336
- Conflict adds to Middle East uncertainty - Allianz Global Investors 10.10.23 377493
- Israel’s war with Hamas will cause deep and wide political shockwaves - CNN 10.10.23 377566
- Historical guide to understanding the conflict between Israel and Palestine: It is one of the longest wars in modern history, which seems far from over - ARA 09.10.23 410813
- A simple guide: What’s the Israel-Palestine conflict about? - Al Jazeera 09.10.23 378715
- Hamas has achieved what it wanted by attacking Israel: terror, escalation, and disruption to the international order - The Conversation 09.10.23 377567
- Historian Rashid Khalidi: Palestinians “Living Under Incredible Oppression, … It Had to Explode” - DN! 09.10.23 377188
- Israel-Hamas war: what has happened and what has caused the conflict? - The Guardian 09.10.23 376136
- The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A chronology - Washington Post 09.10.23 376178
- The Global Context of the Hamas-Israel War - NY Times 09.10.23 376181
- The end of the Netanyahu doctrine - +972mag 09.10.23 376799
- The Hamas Attack Has Changed Everything - Foreign Policy 09.10.23 376182
- Video: Historian Rashid Khalidi: Palestinians “Living Under Incredible Oppression, … It Had to Explode” - DN! 09.10.23 376798
- Video: Breaking news and analysis on day 3 of Gaza's Al-Aqsa Flood - The Electronic Intifada Podcast 09.10.23 384755
- Why did Hamas attack, and why now? What does it hope to gain? - The Conversation 09.10.23 376129
- What’s the Israel-Palestine conflict about? A simple guide - Al Jazeera 09.10.23 376334
- What's the Israel-Palestine conflict about? A simple guide - Al Jazeera 09.10.23 376179
- Hamas Attack Is Latest Tragedy in Long Cycle of Middle East Violence - VOA 08.10.23 376131
- Israel-Hamas war: what has happened and what has caused the conflict? - Guardian 08.10.23 376695
- The media won’t tell you Gaza is a warehouse of millions of ethnically cleansed Palestinian refugees that live trapped under brutal Israeli blockade. Here’s the forbidden hi… 376096
- Israel reels as Hamas launches a spectacular and bloody offensive: It has echoes of the attack 50 years ago that launched the Yom Kippur war - The Economist 07.10.23 377565
- Why the Palestinian group Hamas launched an attack on Israel? All to know - Al Jazeera 07.10.23 375819
- The Root of Violence Is Oppression - Jewish Voice for Peace 07.10.23 379779
- Video: Exclusive Interview w/ Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Leader - BreakThrough News 07.10.23 377072
- Timeline: The Palestinian and Israeli Conflict, Explained - NY Times 07.10.23 376180
- Horrific. Unjustified. Morally Wrong. But 'Unprovoked'? - CD 07.10.23 376003
- Gaza’s shock attack has terrified Israelis. It should also unveil the context +972 Magazine 07.10.23 376010
- This Gaza war didn’t come out of nowhere - Vox 07.10.23 376442
- The Plight of Christians and Palestinian Children in the Holy Land - Maryknoll OGC 01.10.23 380827
- Oslo Accords 'produced today's apartheid', Palestinians say 30 years on from deal - The New Arab 13.09.23 380806
- Guns everywhere: Israel's military leadership created a deadly Wild West - Jerusalem Post 08.09.23 380834
- Occupied Palestinian Territories and Illegal Israeli Settlements - Australian Institute of International Affairs 16.08.23 415816
- The Last Chance for a Two-State Solution for Israelis and Palestinians May Be to Think Much Bigger - Just Security 07.08.23 381236
- Video: Brief Animated History of the Question of Palestine - United Nations Palestinian Rights Committee 08.06.23 378438
- A Military Assessment of the Israel-Hamas Conflict - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy 25.05.23 380676
- ‘No Justice, No Peace’: The Case Of Gaza - Security in Context 16.07.23 416681
- Gaza Strip The Humanitarian Impact Of 15 Years Of The Blockade - OCHA 6/22 - PDF 384762
- Video: Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story - Al Jazeera World Documentary 02.02.22 383735
- The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist - Ebb Mag. 22.06.21 384767
- Video: How Israel Made Gaza The World’s Biggest Prison - AJ+ 08.06.21 384764
- Video: Palestine 101 with Abby Martin - BreakThrough News 17.05.21 387360
- Gaza Strip: A beginner’s guide to an enclave under blockade - Al Jazeera 14.03.21 384763
- Video: PFLP Ghassan Kanafani, Richard Carleton interview - Anti Imperialist Front TV 04.06.20 384768
- Film: Gaza Fights For Freedom. Directed by Abby Martin - Films for Action 2019 384765
- Book: Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 - Ian Black 10/18 381215
- Live Like a Porcupine, Fight Like a Flea: A Translation of an Article by Basel Al-Araj - Palestinian Youth Movement 24.03.18 384771
- Video: Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It - The Intercept 19.02.18 390922
- Video: BLOWBACK: How Israel Helped Create Hamas - Intercept 2/18 (must watch) 383077
- Lessons from Israel's Wars in Gaza - Rand 26.07.17 380679
- Israel Has Broken My Heart: I'm a Rabbi in Mourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel - Rabbi Michael Lerner 10.08.14 388824
- Rejecting victimhood: the case for Palestinian resistance - Open Democracy 14.07.14 384769
- Video: Israeli Palestinian conflict explained: an animated introduction to Israel and Palestine - Jewish Voice for Peace 10/12 379191