ABSTRACT
If there has been little purposeful dialogue in recent years between Israeli and Palestinian political leaders, the extent of intellectual exchange across one of the world’s most pronounced diplomatic fault lines has also been conspicuously modest. The two traditions are not on talking terms. “The most demoralising aspect of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict,” according to the Palestinian academic and writer, Edward Said, “is the almost total opposition between mainstream Israeli and Palestinian points of view. . . . There is simply no common ground, no common narrative, no possible area for genuine reconciliation.”
