The Yinon Plan - A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties
1982 essay by Oded Yinon in a World Zionist Organization journal calling for the break-up of Arab states, translated by Israel Shahak
| A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties | |
| Original title | אסטרטגיה לישראל בשנות השמונים |
|---|---|
| Author | Oded Yinon |
| Country | Israel |
| Language | Hebrew (English translation by Israel Shahak, 1982) |
| Subject | Israeli strategy; partition of Arab states |
| Publisher | Kivunim, World Zionist Organization; English edition: Association of Arab-American University Graduates |
| Published | February 1982 |
The Yinon Plan was a document written in Hebrew by Oded Yinon. It was translated into English in 1982 by the anti-Zionist activist Israel Shahak.
Shahak writes in the foreword:
- In an highly revealing article published in the World Zionist Organization periodical, Kivunim, Oded Yinon advocates that Israeli strategy in the 1980s aims to redraw the map of the Middle East, fragment the Arab states, and become, in effect, a regional superpower.[1]
It is noted in a prefatory passage:
- This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in KIVUNIM (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14--Winter, 5742, February 1982, Editor: Yoram Beck. Editorial Committee: Eli Eyal, Yoram Beck, Amnon Hadari, Yohanan Manor, Elieser Schweid. Published by the Department of Publicity/The World Zionist Organization, Jerusalem.[1]
Lebanon
Yinon wrote that "Lebanon's total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precedent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula", and that "the dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run".[2] He described Lebanon as having "no centralized power, but only 5 de facto sovereign authorities", including in the south "up to the Litani river" a PLO-controlled region and "Major Haddad's state of Christians and half a million Shi'ites".[2] Haddad's forces later became the South Lebanon Army.
The publisher's note to the English edition argued that the 1982 invasion of Lebanon "aims to effect certain parts of this plan which hopes to see not only Lebanon, but Syria and Jordan as well, in fragments".[1] See also Litani River, Greater Israel and Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon (2024–present).
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Israel Shahak (translator and editor), The Zionist Plan for the Middle East Belmont, Massachusetts: Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Special Document No. 1, 1982, accessed 22 October 2026 (critical). Translated from Oded Yinon, "A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Oded Yinon, A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties Kivunim, no. 14, February 1982, English translation, Internet Archive copy, accessed 22 October 2026.