While there are things I applaud in his op-ed piece, such as Arabic being a required language studied in school and the need to embrace our own Israeli Arab citizens on an equal basis, ultimately I feel it would be dangerously delusional on our part to believe that the Arab countries around us would embrace Israel because of these things. The Arab World he describes with such nostalgia does not exist any longer. There as deep schisms in today's Islamic world where factions are fighting one another in the most violent ways. Culture is an ever-evolving dynamic. It can't be forced ahead. And, quite frankly, by the time the idealized Israel he describes could come about, Israel may not be here to to enjoy it.