Medieval Times In The Middle East

Here is an interesting essay by George Friedman and Kamran Bokhari:

http://www.mauldineconomics.com/this-week-in-geopolitics/medieval-times-in-the-modern-middle-east#

Is this claim believable?

"Arab nation-states are now failing in the Middle East, and though their failure is primarily due to their governments’ inability to create viable political economies ..."

Note well the authors fail to connect Israel to this failure and inability. The fate of the Arabs would make a LOT more sense if they did.