Moshe Ya'alon predicts the end of his country:
Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon is known for his blunt manner, and in an interview with NPR, he says that a future map of the Middle East will look very different that the one that exists today.
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"We have to distinguish between countries like Egypt, with their history. Egypt will stay Egypt," Ya'alon, who is on a visit to Washington, tells Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep.In contrast, Ya'alon says, "Libya was a new creation, a Western creation as a result of World War I. Syria, Iraq, the same — artificial nation-states — and what we see now is a collapse of this Western idea."
Which country in the Middle East is the most artificial? Which one was created as the result of a World War and is solely a "western" idea?
It seems to me that Ya'alon lacks the self awareness to detect the irony in what he said.