With that struggle, in which most of the region’s regimes have exhausted their already-limited stores of legitimacy, a century-old regional order is collapsing. Indeed, Israel, Iran, and Turkey – all non-Arab-majority countries – are probably the region’s only genuinely cohesive nation-states.
随着这场耗尽多数政权本就有限的合法性的地区冲突，拥有百年历史的地区秩序顷刻间土崩瓦解。事实上，以色列、伊朗和土耳其——即该地区仅有的几个非阿拉伯人占据多数的国家——很可能是唯一真正有凝聚力的民族政府。