We can spend all our valuable, useful efforts imagining a separate state or enclave, where we'll achieve our fantasies of a just society, away from perceived and actual oppression; or we can, right now, get off our individual and collective behinds, and do precisely what we hope to be be doing when we achieve our much desired ethnic and religious Shangri-las. We'll do nothing different in our separate states, if we can't do or don't do anything now! The fight for justice and the attainment of the same, begins, proceeds, and ends within a purely human context, not an ethnic or religious one. The agitation for separate nations or states, however justified, does not rise up to that real human context, and can only succeed in creating societies where the idea of justice is hedged around by ethnic and religious considerations. The exclusivist nature of religion and ethnicity always assumes justice and fair...