The total disintegration of Lebanon into five regional localized governments is the precedent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arab Peninsula, in a similar fashion. The dissolution of Egypt and later Iraq into districts of ethnic and religious minorities following the example of Lebanon is the main long-range objective of Israel on the Eastern Front. The present military weakening of these states is the short-range objective. Syria will disintegrate into several states along the lines of its ethnic and sectarian structure, as is happening in Lebanon today. As a result, there will be a Shiite Alawi state, the district of Allepo will be a Sunni state, and the district of Damascus, another state which is hostile to the northern one. The Druze-even those of the Golan-should form a state in Hanran and in northern Jordan. This will be the long-run guarantee for security and peace in the entire region. It is a goal which can be achieved today.
“Making the Arab World Collapse” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 11/12, Vol. 11, no. 4 – Vol. 12, no. 1, Special Issue: The War in Lebanon (Summer – Autumn, 1982), pp. 209-214. Originally from Kivvonim 1981/1982 published by WZO’s Department of Information. The author is introduced as Oded Yinon “a journalist and former employee of Israeli foreign service”.