Oh, I do understand him. When you live as a minority, you constantly live in fear as to what the majority will think. Silverstein wishes to prove to the world that the fact that he's Jewish means absolutely nothing to him so that they will look at him kindly. The reason there are people like Peace Now, Neturei Karta, ISM, and Silverstein is because we have lived a non-national existence for so long that the idea of reconstituting the Jewish nation is frightening to many Jews.