Shimon Peres celebrates: "Ten years ago you advocated a new Middle East. What is left of this vision?
It's already a new Middle East. Not only do we have peace with Egypt, but it's growing in strength and depth. Egypt, too, is changing. We have peace with Jordan growing, too. Syria is an outsider today in the Middle East. Once, it was a leader, but what is Syria today? Nobody thinks about Syria in terms of leadership. They are irrelevant militarily. And look, Arab unity doesn't exist any longer, because the Gulf countries are on their own, Egypt is on its own, Iraq is on its own, North Africa is on its own. Turkey became a modern country and has shown it can be Muslim and modern. Libya has changed completely."