ABSTRACT
The analysis in the previous chapter of political interests and social and ideological motivations discloses a curious symmetry of positions which in turn produces a seemingly unbridgeable chasm. If the interests of both parties are to be respected in a situation of mutually exclusive claims, the only possible solution is some form of compromise between these claims. The apparently tragic character of the conflict is rooted in the fact that this midway position - the creation and the continued existence, side by side, of a Palestinian state and Israel - seems, not without reason, unacceptable to both parties.
