Then there are the questions of the Israeli Arabs and of Jerusalem (for is it, as Berlin once was, to be sliced in two by a wall?). Having said that, it is striking that a man of liberal values such as my PeaceNow friend should advocate the physical separation of groups as the road - perhaps the only road - to peace. sur de Estados Unidos.
The notion that groups should have equal rights but remain separate was once the ultimate concession of traditionalists in the old segregated American South.