 In all my works , I remained fundamentally critical of a gloating and uncritical nationalism . . . . My view of Palestine . . . remains the same today : I expressed all sorts of reservations about the insouciant nativism , and militant militarism of the nationalist consensus ; I suggested , instead , a critical look at the Arab environment , Palestinian history , and the Israeli realities , with the explicit conclusion that only a negotiated settlement , between the two communities of suffering , Arab and Jewish , would provide respite from the unending war . 
