The Jerusalem Post reports:
Lamenting the divisions in the Arab world, Lebanon’s prime minister on Thursday urged Arab nations to follow Europe’s lead and band together in a common market to face future challenges, such as unemployment.
In an opening speech to the 10th Arab Investment and Capital Markets conference in Beirut, Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said the idea of an Arab common market is as old as the idea of the European Common Market.
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He pointed to Arab countries signing agreements with the European Union and the World Trade Organization “but we don’t sign agreements with each other.”
And can you blame them? Each Arab country probably realizes that the others are as untrustworthy as they are.
