“that all the Arab states should be broken down, by Israel, into small units” and 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.” (white paper The Zionist Plan for the Middle East written in 1982 by Israel Oded Yinon) The destruction of the Arab and Muslim states would be accomplished from within by exploiting their internal religious and ethnic tensions.