IRL #20

http://www.merip.org/palestine-israel_primer/intro-pal-isr-primer.html

This is an article, by Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar, published in the online "Middle East Report."
It connects to our study of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine, and enhances what we learned by providing a very clear explanation/contrast of the claims of both the Arabs and the Jews to the land of Palestine, an outline of events concerning the struggle over Palestine since the 19th century, and specific numbers of populations of different ethnic/religious groups in Jerusalem in 1878, etc.
A limitation is that the date of the publication of the article is not listed, and thus the reader cannot know exactly what timeframe and context this information is being given. Also, after doing some light research on one of the authors of the article, Lisa Hajjar, it appears that she is unnaturally obsessed with the subject of torture, which does make her relation to this [non-torture-related] topic seem somewhat odd, and also this article does not say much about the hatred and tensions between and against the Israeli and Arab groups.