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Szijár Abu-Hantash A comparison between the experiences of integration and European unity with the experience of integration and the Arab unity After nearly half century of the beginning of the European integration project, Western Europe was able to achieve progress and improvement in the integration and the comprehensive European unity overacting all contradictions and difficulties it faced before the beginning of the integration process or the process that appeared during this process and still faced till now because the European integrative experience motivated lots of other zones in the world to follow its example. The countries of the Arab world are the most obvious example, which dealt with building institutions in imitation of the European integration experience; But all attempts of Arab integration did not reach any of the levels where the European and integration experience did, in spite of the availability of all the main factors of integration and unity in the Arab countries in away that exceeds its availability in the European community. Here these questions raised: why did the experience of integration and European unity has succeed, at least, till now in spite of the few factors? Why did the Arabs experience in integration failed in spite of the many factors of integration and unity? The answer to these questions requires to follow the steps of the European integration to reach such properties, advances and accomplishments, finally obstacles and difficulties they faced and overcame, or these difficulties that are still treated by the European community, it alsó necessitates following the experience of integration and Arab unity searching its components and advances, reasons beyond not achieving its aims in integration and unification. This research tries through presenting these two experiences, to illustrate points of weakness in the Arab experience, so as to avoid them in future, taking into consideration the objective circumstances, the environment where the process of unity and integration started. The experience of integration and European unity In spite of talking about one western European civilization, there was no European common history or culture. Because of the different methods followed in building the national government, varia nce in linguistic properties1 but the lack of the unifying national factor (element) and variance in cultures and interests, and European policies, did not come between the establishment of European integration and lack of continuity of European process.