Zionist Plan for the Middle East: A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties by Oded Yinon, Israel Shahak (editor and translator)

This is a FACSIMILE REPRINT of an exceedingly difficult book to find. 

1982 edition printed in 2025.

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Note: This book is a reproduction of the historical text for academic, historical, or collector purposes.

6" x 9" / 29 pages

Zionist Plan for the Middle East: A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties

The Yinon Plan is an article published in February 1982 in the Hebrew journal Kivunim ("Directions") entitled 'A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s'.^[1] The article was penned by Oded Yinon, reputedly a former advisor to Ariel Sharon,^[2] a former senior official with the Israeli Foreign Ministry^[3][4][5][6] and journalist for The Jerusalem Post.^[7]

It is cited as an early example of characterizing political projects in the Middle East in terms of a logic of sectarian divisions.^[8] It has played a role in both conflict resolution analysis by scholars who regard it as having influenced the formulation of policies adopted by the American administration under George W. Bush,^[9] and also in conspiracy theories according to which the article either predicted or planned major political events in the Middle East since the 1980s, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overthrowing of Saddam Hussein, the Syrian Civil War and the rise of the Islamic State.

Conspiracy theories further claim that the plan was introduced to the US by members of the Israeli Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies in administration and that it was adopted by the Bush administration following 9/11 (claimed to be a Mossad false flag) with the goal of furthering US interests in the region, while simultaneously advancing the alleged Jewish dream of Greater Israel "from the Nile to the Euphrates".^[10]