The tragedies continue: the conflicts, the prevarications, the difficult attempts at peace; all that is happening in the Palestinian territories and in the state of Israel can be linked to an inescapable geopolitical and historical root belonging to the people who inhabit the land. But it can be noted, too, that this conflict is also connected to the major events of this "brief century" in Europe and the world: the wars, the persecution of the Jews, the eclipse of the bipolar nature of the balance of world power, the new international relations that are redefining the geopolitical world map.