Middle East 101, Week XVII

Cast Lead, Pillar of Defense, and Protective Edge

I’m late with the lesson plan again—midway through putting it together, I changed my mind completely about how best to approach this. But don’t despair, because the reading list is short this week. In any case, I think we’ll probably want to take two weeks to cover this ground, given how intimately connected it is to contemporary events. We can discuss this on Sunday.

Please read and watch as many of the articles and videos embedded in the timeline as you can. (If you hit paywalls, let me know. I can send the article to you or upload a PDF to our Google Drive.)

The video of our chat with Michael Totten is below.