One Land, Two Peoples: we will recount the evolution of the confrontation between Arabs and Israelis from its origin to the current dramatic events. Today little remains of past hopes; at the root remains the failure to recognize each other, the tragic fiction that, in order for the other to exist, the other must disappear forever.

Claudio Vercelli is a lecturer in Jewish studies at LIMEC, School for Linguistic Mediators in Milan, Italy.