I think that the statement regarding the possibility of that the European movement may turn form an economic to a political and eventually national unit is not feasible. Cultural diversity is a social necessity – to define oneself, there has to be an "other" that is used as a foil and a backdrop. There is a great sense of "otherness" that different Europeans feel towards each other, something that will not go away in the course of few decades or even several generations. As far as the survival of Israel itself goes, while there are no guarantees that it will not go away in some kind of military conflagration, I do not see the possibility of voluntarily assuming an Arab hegemony or undergoing a gradual process of being assimilated into the predominant Arab cultural surrounding. That would be conceivable if an initial cultural affinity existed to begin with. As things stand, the cultural origins of Israel and its Arab neighbors are markedly different. The last 52 years have not contributed towards a fusing of the two peoples either...