Israel’s strategy of fragmenting Arab states dates to 1980s Likud thinking.

Evidence

This argument was similar to a position developed in the 1980s by the right-wing Likud party in Israel. The argument went that Israel should fragment, dissolve, or otherwise weaken the neighboring Arab states as a way to shore up its own safety. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 391

Categorization

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