September 5, 2024 - The Israeli military strategy seeks to diminish its opponents' military strength by conducting large but occasional assaults.

September 5, 2024 - Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant stated that the military's ongoing major assault in the occupied West Bank, which has resulted in at least 39 Palestinian deaths, is part of a strategy he referred to as “mowing the lawn”.

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November 6, 2023 - In 2014, T.X. Hammes wrote "Israel and the Demise of 'Mowing the Grass'" for War on the Rocks, in which he wrote that Israel's practice of "mowing the

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This is a change from the previous ... to as "mowing the lawn," meaning a task to which one is required to return repeatedly. · Any operation against the militant group is destined to result in more civilian deaths and raise diplomatic dilemmas. Turkey has already signaled a shift away from the intense diplomacy that was underway to normalize ties with Israel after years ...

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October 30, 2023 - First, the multiplicity of threats facing Israel. Doing anything more than “mowing the lawn” in Gaza, for example, would require diverting capabilities and resources that might open Israel up to a more devastating attack from the north. Second, the lack of good strategic options.

War on the Rocks

March 3, 2021 - Some Israelis refer to their periodic shelling of the Palestinian territory as “mowing the lawn.” It is a disturbing metaphor because it is so indiscriminate. They don’t talk about “weeding the garden” or “pruning the trees.” A lawnmower cuts down everything in its path—grass, ...

October 29, 2023 - Israel imposed a blockade, limiting movement in and out of Gaza in hopes of weakening Hamas. It waged a series of wars and smaller battles with Hamas — a policy known as “mowing the lawn” that was meant to keep the group in check.

June 7, 2023 - In "Disarmament of Gaza" study, Israeli experts say it is necessary and possible to disarm Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups.

Its massive assaults on the Gaza Strip in 2008-9 (Operation Cast Lead) and 2012 (Operation Pillar of Defence), as well as countless individual attacks between and since, were in this context exercises in what the Israeli military called ‘mowing the lawn’: weakening Hamas and enhancing ...

June 5, 2021 - The ceasefire on May 21 has, for now, brought the Israeli war on Gaza to an end. However, this ceasefire is not permanent and constant Israeli provocations

July 9, 2023 - Israel’s massive operation in the West Bank refugee camp resembles its strategy of “mowing the lawn” with Gaza bombings.

July 6, 2023 - The two-day Israeli military incursion into the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank (12 Palestinians killed, 1 Israeli dead) seems at first glance like just another example of ‘mowing the lawn’. That’s what the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) call these periodic futile raids ...

November 7, 2019 - Its massive assaults on the Gaza Strip in 2008-9 (Operation Cast Lead) and 2012 (Operation Pillar of Defence), as well as countless individual attacks between and since, were in this context exercises in what the Israeli military called ‘mowing the lawn’: weakening Hamas and enhancing ...

May 7, 2016 - One can only imagine the nods of self-satisfaction when an Israel Defense Forces planner came up with “Pillar of Cloud” to name Israel’s subsequent eight-day aerial assault on Gaza. By lifting this metaphor from several well-known passages in the Torah, the IDF sought to portray the operation ...

July 22, 2014 - Those who forlornly ask “when is this going to end?” and use the cliché term “cycle of violence” have psychological difficulties digesting the facts that there is no solution in sight.

July 25, 2014 - A metaphor can be a dangerous thing. It can even kill.