Israel Lobby Pushes For US Action Against Syria

By Stephen Sniegoski

As Morris notes in his presentation, elimination of the Assad regime in
Syria was not an idea conceived by either the neocons or the broader Israel
lobby; rather it can be traced back to the Israeli Likudniks, being
articulated by Oded Yinon in his 1982 piece, “A Strategy for Israel in the
Nineteen Eighties.” In this article, Yinon called for Israel to use
military means to bring about the dissolution of Israel’s neighboring
states and their fragmentation into a mosaic of ethnic and sectarian
groupings. Yinon believed that this would not be a difficult undertaking
because nearly all the Arab states were afflicted with internal ethnic and
religious divisions. In essence, the end result would be a Middle East of
powerless mini-statelets that could in no way confront Israeli power.
Lebanon, then facing divisive chaos, was Yinon’s model for the entire Middle
East. Yinon wrote: “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 is already following that track. 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, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as
the primary short term target.” (Quoted in “The Transparent Cabal,” p. 51)

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