“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
The Infamous "Oded Yinon Plan". Introduction by Michel Chossudovsky
By Israel Shahak
This article was first published on Global Research on April 29, 2013.
Global Research Editor’s Note
The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater
Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of powerful Zionist factions within
the current Netanyahu government (which has recently been re-elected),
the Likud party, as well as within the Israeli military and intelligence
establishment. The election was fought by Netanyahu on
a political platform which denies Palestinian statehood.
According to the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, “the
area of the Jewish State stretches: “From the Brook of Egypt to the
Euphrates.” According to Rabbi Fischmann, “The Promised Land extends
from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes parts of Syria
and Lebanon.”
When
viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on
Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing war on Syria and Iraq, the
war in Yemen, the process of regime change in Egypt, must be understood
in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East. The latter consists
in weakening and eventually fracturing neighboring Arab states as part
of an Israeli expansionist project.
“Greater Israel” consists in an area extending from the Nile Valley to the Euphrates.
The Zionist project supports the Jewish settlement movement. More
broadly it involves a policy of excluding Palestinians from Palestine
leading to the eventual annexation of both the West Bank and Gaza to the
State of Israel.
Greater Israel would create a number of proxy States. It would
include parts of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the Sinai, as well as parts of
Iraq and Saudi Arabia. (See map).
According to Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya in a 2011 Global Research article, The Yinon Plan was a continuation of Britain’s colonial design in the Middle East:
“[The Yinon
plan] is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional
superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its
geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding
Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
plan] is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional
superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its
geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding
Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
