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The term Yinon Plan refers to an article published in February 1982 in the journal Kivounim [1] ("guidance" or "direction" in Hebrew), published by the World Zionist Organization, based in Jerusalem. The article, entitled A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s, is signed by Oded Yinon, who presents himself as a journalist and former official of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. The thesis of the existence of the "Yinon Plan" is controversial: it is used by anti-Zionist activists to criticize Israeli policy in the Near and Middle East but other authors consider that the Article remained anecdotal (or largely ignored) and that it should not be confused with a "plan" or a "roadmap" which would be followed by the leaders of Israel.
Greater Israel: "From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates"
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The article considers that the interests of the Jewish state is to promote the creation of, in the Arab world, antagonistic mini-states too weak and divided to effectively oppose it: "The fragmentation of Syria and of Iraq in areas determined on the basis of ethnic or religious criteria must be, in the long term, a priority goal for Israel, the first step being the destruction of the military power of those states. Rich in oil, and plagued by internal strife, Iraq is in the Israeli firing line. Its dissolution would be, for us, more important than that of Syria, because it is Iraq which is in the short term, the most serious threat to Israel."
History
Eight months after its initial publication in Kivounim, the article was republished in October 1982 by the Journal of Palestine Studies (1982–2008), translated by Israel Shahak (1933–2001), former president of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights (1970–1990) and militant anti-Zionist. This second publication came just as Israel's military intervention in Lebanon ended (June–September 1982), called "Peace for Galilee Operation", marked in particular by the massacres committed by the Lebanese Christian Phalanges in Palestinian refugee camps in Sabra and Shatila (16–18 September 1982).
Ideas similar to those of this article were proposed in 1996 in a report to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Titled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, the report suggests "a clean break" with the philosophy of the Oslo Accords, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and a proxy war with Syria. One action set out in the report was to "work closely with Turkey and Jordan to contain, destabilize, and roll-back some of its most dangerous threats". The report was prepared by a study group from the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, a think tank of neoconservative Israeli-Americans. The study group was led by a figure of the neoconservative movement and former senior official of the Department of Defense, Richard Perle. The report's findings were rejected by Netanyahu.
The article was also published in 2007 by the journal Confluences Méditerranée.[2] under the title "A persistent strategy of dislocation of the Arab world" and using the introduction written by Israel Shahak for the Journal of Palestine Studies published twenty-five years earlier, and again in 2013 by Global Research[1] with an additional introduction by Michel Chossudovsky a Canadian economist, author and conspiracy theorist.
Influence
For some, the ideas set out in this article were largely taken by successive Israeli governments since 1982. There is evidence to support that this geopolitical doctrine is being followed by Israel and the US since the 1980s: the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the fall of Saddam Hussein, the civil war in Syria (since 2011), the breakup of the country, the balkanization of the Middle East, and the rise of the Islamic State. This thesis is referred to by several anti-Zionist militants such as the Swiss preacher Hani Ramadan [3], the Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy (who refers to the "Yinon Plan" in his book[4] "The Case for Israel - Political Zionism in 1983"), the political scientist and essayist Pierre Hillard, the Italian journalist Silvia Cattori, etc.
Others believe instead that this article's ideas had no influence on the strategic decisions of Israel. The very identity of the journalist (unknown in Israel) remains mysterious: we do not know what his exact duties at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs were. For Michael Prazan and Adrien Minard, biographers of Roger Garaudy, "nothing indicates that this product is a concrete work plan approved by the authorities. This is a personal position among others, expressed by a single journalist ".
Some view the "Yinon Plan" as a conspiracy and hoax similar to the hoax known as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"[2] however there is no evidence that this is the case; the article was published in a respected journal and there is little doubt as to its authenticity; all that is in doubt is whether the author really was Oded Yinon or whether that was a pseudonym, or whether it has ever been an official policy of the Israeli Government.
Even if the name Oded Yinon is a pseudonym, the author self-identifies in a public journal and it therefore seems reasonable that the article is most commonly known as the "Yinon Plan".
The Plan in Summary
The plan sets out a series of steps that the author thinks could lead to the realization of a Greater Israel essentially through the balkanization of the Arab world.[5][6] In specific terms, and amongst other things, the article suggests the dissolution of Iraq and Syria, the recovery of Sinai from Egypt, the liquidation of Jordan and termination of the rule of King Hussein along with the transfer of Arabs from Israel and the Occupied Territories to Jordan.
References
^ Jump up to: a b "“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization". globalresearch.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-19. This article was first published on Global Research on April 29, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b Reichstadt, Rudi (Wednesday, September 2, 2015). "Observatoire du conspirationnisme et des théories du complot". Complotisme: Hani Ramadan persists, sign ... and sinks. Conspiracy Watch. Retrieved 5 September 2015. Check date values in: |date= (help)
Jump up ^ Ramadan, Hani (Monday, August 31, 2015 at 17:12.). "Le Temps". You said "conspiracy theory"?. Le Temps. Retrieved 5 September 2015. Check date values in: |date= (help)
Jump up ^ Garaudy, Roger (1983). The Case for Israel - Political Zionism.
Jump up ^ “A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties” by Oded Yinon, Translated by Israel Shahak and published by the Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc. Belmont, Massachusetts, 1982 Special Document No. 1 (ISBN 0-937694-56-8)
Jump up ^ Yinon, Oded (February 1982). "A strategy for Israel in the 1980s". KIVUNIM (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism. Jerusalem: Published by the Department of Publicity/The World Zionist Organization, Jerusalem. Editor: Yoram Beck. Editorial Committee: Eli Eyal, Yoram Beck, Amnon Hadari, Yohanan Manor, Elieser Schweid. Winter, 5742 (14).
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