Ittay Flescher is a journalist and facilitator based in Jerusalem. His new book, The Holy and the Broken: A cry for peace from a land that must be shared, is published by HarperCollins.
On October 7, if we are to move forward at all, we must begin by looking honestly in the mirror, to acknowledge the full weight of what has been done, and what has been lost.
I have managed thousands of hours of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. There is one factor that has so far made peace impossible.