Let us imagine the following political and economic construction. The relations between Israel and surrounding states are friendly. All these countries are fast developed and prosper. They form the Levantine Union analogous to the European Union.
Israel is its financial, technological, and political center and uses resources of the all region.
Unrealizable fiction? What does obstruct its realization?

Tuesday, July 18, 2006  

 www.israel-un.org/sec_council/60thUNGA/gillerman14july2006.htm
""The Lebanese Government must seize the opportunity to wrest their country  from the grips of terror "

Statement by H.E. Ambassador Dan Gillerman
Permanent Representative of Israel