The Technology That Can Reshape Nations (youtube.com)
It seems people are starting to think on a different scale recently. Samo is talking about duplicating Egypt (by simply making another freshwater Nile), by making a country-sized green park in SA. If such a change happens in thought, it will reperceive our current large size as tribe or pueblo size.
Israel is valid because the landscape is better, they greened it, some would say.