But this sentence jumped out at me: "Perhaps in the longer term, as hostility and fear subside and relations are more firmly developed along non-national lines, there will be a possibility of moving towards a federal version of binationalism, then perhaps on to closer integration, perhaps even to a democratic secular state though it is far from obvious that that is the optimal arrangement for complex societies, there or elsewhere, a different matter."
Huh? Democratic secularism isn't obviously ideal when realizable? Perhaps better arrangements exist on other possible worlds, or maybe even in a distant future populated by a new sort of man, but...
-- Luke