The Middle East is the global crucible – one positive step at a time!

After many years of pondering (often out very loud to friends and family) my right brain concludes that in 2009, the best move to shift the momentum between Israel and her neighbors is to start with Syria.
A peaceful arrangement with Syria could not only be good for both Syria and Israel, it could also have a powerful impact, for the better, on Lebanon and Palestine. Please notice that to my right brain, Palestine is a separate state from Israel and should be thought about and treated that way immediately; more on that in the future.
What could the situation between Israel and Syria look like; my right brain asks out loud?
How about if the two countries, Israel and Syria, agreed that the Golan Heights would be returned to Syrian administration while permitting all who currently reside there to remain as either Israeli citizens or dual citizens? In addition, my right brain elaborates, if the border between Israel and Syria were to be like that between the United States and Canada, with some document control but very little bureaucracy, the two historical enemies could lay the ground work for an MEU (Middle East Union).
My right brain postulates that if Syria and Israel could demonstrate that they really do intend to address mutual problems together like water availability, soil depletion, arms and drugs peddling, healthcare, education and small business nurturing, other Arab states, like Jordan, would soon join their parade.
Once this direction is established my right brain, now soaring, goes on, the Palestine-Israel relationship would have a context for resolution that it has always lacked. A context, my right brain urges, that could free up the fertile minds in the region to think way outside the box of the past 42, 61, or 108 years depending on who is doing the counting!
Albert Einstein is attributed to have said that “imagination is more important than knowledge.” My right brain maintains that the enduring crisis in the Middle East is more a lack of imagination than anything else. Fearful minds, my right brain avers, are hard pressed to be imaginative. So, if Syria and Israel can model an imaginative approach to restoring the Golan Heights to Syria while not restoring the relationship between Syria and Israel to its old, mind-locked stalemate, perhaps a new platform for creative thinking and meta-national design could emerge.
Wishful thinking my right brain admits; and why not?
If the key one has tried to open the lock with just does not do the job, surely the better move is to look for another key that might open it rather than to keep forcing the one that won’t until it breaks?!