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From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories behind

the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. This May, the Israel-Palestine conflict erupted into the

most serious violence that we've seen in some years.

Over the course of several weeks, Hamas and the Israeli army traded rocket fire and missile fire,

while simultaneously and for the first time in many years,

riots broke out between Israeli Jews and Israeli-Palestinian Arabs within Israel itself.

By the time a ceasefire was declared, more than 300 people had died, most of them Palestinian.

The issues behind this conflict are complex, and in particular, it's important to notice

and to try to understand why this particular round of violence spilled over into conflict

between Israelis and Palestinians within Israel, including within mixed cities within the country

that have historically been very peaceful and have been

treated by some observers as models of coexistence.

The issues are complex and political, but they're also legal, since one of the catalysts of this

outbreak of violence was a property conflict in a neighborhood of Jerusalem called Sheikh Jarach.

Getting inside these complicated issues is never easy.

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