An English translation by Israel Shahak soon appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies.[24][25] Israel Shahak in the foreword to his translation interpreted the plan as both a fantasy and a faithful reflection of the strategy being developed by Ariel Sharon and Rafael Eitan, and drew parallels with both the geopolitical ideas that flourished in Germany from 1890 to 1933, later adopted by Hitler and applied to Eastern Europe,[26] and modern American neoconservative thinking, which influenced Yinon, to gather from the sources cited in his notes.[27] It was, it has been argued, Shahak's English translation which catapulted Yinon into the public limelight.[9]