- In 1982, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs senior advisor
Oded Yinon published a revealing document for regional conquest and dominance.
Still relevant today, it's titled "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s,
translated, edited, and retitled "The Zionist Plan for the Middle
East" by distinguished Professor Israel Shahak (1933 - 2001), longtime
activist, analyst, and outspoken Israeli critic.
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- Its publisher, the Association of Arab-American University
Graduates called it "the most explicit, detailed and unambiguous statement
to date of the Zionist strategy in the Middle East....Its importance....lies
not in its historical value but in the nightmare which it represents,"
what thereafter continued to unfold.
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- Its two essential premises include:
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- -- to survive, Israel must dominate the region and become
a world power, and
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- -- succeeding requires dividing Arab nations into small
states - Balkanizing them along ethnic and sectarian lines as Israeli satellites,
controllable satraps, the idea modeled after the Ottoman Empire's Millet
(or nation) system under which local authorities governed confessional
communities with separate ethnic identities.
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- Israel's 1967 Golan seizure and 1978 and 1982 Lebanon
invasions followed the plan, Yinon noting "far-reaching opportunities
for the first time since 1967, (created by the) very stormy situation surround(ing)
Israel," resurrected whenever Israel wishes. Its method involves preemptive
belligerence against Palestinians and regional states, making them all
eventual targets to be weakened, fragmented, divided, and reconfigured
under Israeli control.
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- In 1982, it included dividing Iraq into Shi'ite, Sunni,
and Kurdish areas, what, in fact, unfolded after 2003, Shahak noting that:
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- "The plan follows faithfully the geopolitical ideas
current in Germany of 1890 - 1933, which were swallowed whole by Hitler
and the Nazi movement, and determined their aims for East Europe."
They were then implemented from 1939 - 1941, "and only (a global alliance)
prevented their consolidation for a period of time."
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- Citing the "early stages of a new epoch," Yinon
said "The existence, prosperity and steadfastness of (Israel) depend(s)
upon its ability to adopt a new framework for its domestic and foreign
affairs," based on securing its material needs through winnable resource
wars and Arab world divisions.
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- "All the Arab States east of Israel are torn apart,
broken up and riddled with inner conflicts even more than those of the
Maghreb" (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, and Western
Sahara). All the Gulf states are "built upon a delicate house of sand
in which there is only oil." Jordan is in reality Palestine, Amman
the same as Nablus.
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- Other Muslim states are similar. Half of Iran's population
is Persian speaking, the rest ethnically Turkish. Turkey is half Sunni
Muslim, the rest Shi'ite Alawis and Sunni Kurds. Today, Afghanistan's divisions
are clearer, including Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Turkmen, and
others. Pakistan also is comprised of Punjabis, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Seraikis,
Muhajirs, Balochs and others.
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- From Morocco to India, Somalia to Turkey, stability is
absent, "point(ing) to....a rapid degeneration in the entire region"
to be exploited to Israel's advantage. Throughout the Middle East, depravation,
including hunger and unemployment affect millions, potentially explosive
problems only security forces can contain, giving Israel "far-reaching
opportunities for the first time since 1967."
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- The Six Day War's strategic error was failing to give
Jordan to the Palestinians, thereby "neutralizing" today's problem
by removing them. "Today, we suddenly face immense opportunities for
transforming the situation thoroughly and this we must do in the coming
decade, otherwise we shall not survive as a state."
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- He recommended far-reaching foreign and domestic political
and economic changes. He also called Israel's peace agreement with Egypt
a mistake, said its economy depends on acquiring oil resources without
which it could be destroyed, and named two ways to get them:
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- -- directly by breaking the treaty; or
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- -- regaining control of the Sinai indirectly, Egypt no
military obstacle because of its internal conflicts.
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- In 1956, its myth as the Arab world's strong leader was
revealed, reiterated in 1967. Its economy is also in crisis, making foreign
help essential. Israel's strategic aim is to weaken it further by breaking
it into distinct geographical regions. If accomplished, other countries
may follow, including Libya and Sudan.
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- "The vision of a Christian Coptic State in Upper
Egypt alongside a number of weak states with very localized power (and
none centrally) is the key to a historical development which was only set
back by the peace agreement but which seems inevitable in the long run."
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- Lebanon's division into five provinces is a precedent
for the entire Arab world, including Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and the
Arabian peninsula. Syria will divide into a Shi'ite Alawi coastal state,
an Aleppo area Sunni one, another in Damascus, and the Druzes will set
up their own. This outcome will guarantee peace and security in the long
run, "and that aim is already within our reach today."
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- Oil rich/internally torn Iraq is a "guaranteed"
Israeli target, more important than Syria. In the short run, it's Israel's
greatest threat. A war with Iran will tear it apart, lead to its downfall,
and perhaps fragment Iran, separating its oil rich Arab speaking province
from the rest of the country. Confrontations elsewhere will cause further
dissolutions.
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- Because of internal and external pressure, the entire
Arabian peninsula is vulnerable, especially Saudi Arabia. Jordan won't
threaten in the long run after dissolution. "There is no chance that
(it) will continue to exist in its present structure for a long time."
Thus, Israel's policy should be transferring Jordanian power to Palestinians,
hastened by Occupied Territory emigration, resulting in "Arabs to
Jordan and the Jews to the areas west of the river. Genuine coexistence
and peace will reign over the land only when Arabs understand that without
Jewish rule between Jordan and the sea they will have neither existence
nor security." Jordan is their only alternative, giving Israel more
land cleansed of Arabs.
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- Otherwise, "we shall cease to exist within any borders.
Judea, Samaria (the West Bank and Jerusalem) and the Galilee are our sole
guarantee for national existence....Rebalancing the country demographically,
strategically and economically is the highest and most central aim today."
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- Changes transforming world Jewry make Israel the only
existential option. "Our existence is certain." Nothing can "remove
us (either) forcefully or by treachery (Sadat's method)."
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- Three important points are stressed:
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- First, Israel's military alone can't occupy more territory.
The solution - rule by "Haddad forces" or "Village Associations,"
controllable local authorities, dissociated from their populations, Israeli
garrisons strategically positioned between the mini states. Making it feasible
depends on keeping Arabs divided.
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- Second, Yinon's plan was published to win over Israeli
society, especially its elites able to influence others. Problems about
Arabs awareness are minimal, given their divisions and inability to understand
Israeli society.
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- Neither is America of concern, its pro-Israeli media
assumes "good intentions" regardless of policy, and the Israeli
Lobby does the rest. As a result, Israel operates freely "because
the world wants to close its eyes."
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- In 1985, Israeli President and Labor Party leader Chaim
Herzog echoed the views of hardline extremists like Sharon and Netanyahu:
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- "We are certainly not willing to make partners of
the Palestinians in any way in a land that was holy to our people for thousands
of years. There can be no partner with the Jews of this land," leaving
resettlement (expulsion) the only option, a favored policy today, the same
one revisionist leader Ze've Jabotinsky advocated, including in a 1939
letter, saying:
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- "There is no choice: The Arabs must make room for
the Jews in Eretz Israel. It it was possible to transfer the Baltic peoples,
it is also possible to move the Palestinian Arabs." Most was accomplished
in Israel's 1948 "War of Independence," again in the 1967 Six
Day War. Thereafter it continued, supported and funded by Israel's Washington
paymaster/partner in crime. As a result, Palestinians have been on their
own resisting for over six decades, their courage and determination unreported
in the West, but global support builds and offers hope.
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- Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com
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