October 16, 2023 - Posted by u/Ghost_of_Hamas - 7 votes and 1 comment

October 11, 2023 - Major attacks took place in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, and 2021—virtually every two years. Israel has pursued a strategy of “mowing the lawn,” a phrase it uses to describe the periodic bombing of Palestinians in the territory to keep armed groups at bay.

October 30, 2023 - Israel’s “mowing the lawn” approach to counter-terrorism suggests a lack of overarching strategy. As a group of retired U.S. military commanders wrote in a Jewish Institute for National Security of America study of the 2021 Israel-Hamas conflict, “the most telling feature of the Gaza ...

May 10, 2018 - by Ben Reiff Gaza’s Great March of Return has lasted for over six weeks. Israel’s military response – resulting in around 40 Palestinian deaths and some 5,000 injuries – has drawn international cen…

August 3, 2014 - BEFORE POSTING PLEASE READ THE THREAD RULES BELOW THIS ARTICLE: Israel's "Operation Mow the Lawn" by Steve Niva | published December 7, 2012 - 4:32pm One can only imagine the nods of self-satisfaction when an Israel Defense Forces planner came up with “Pillar of...

October 10, 2013 - The Gaza Terror Offensive – 14 May – 19 June 2024Read articleRussian Policies During the Israeli-Hamas War Since October the 7thRead articleIsrael at

April 15, 2023 - In pursuance of this approach, ... simultaneously while conducting a major ground offensive in one theater. Israel must switch from the “mowing the grass” doctrine to one of uprooting the “lawn” altogether and the sooner the better....

War on the Rocks

July 16, 2014 - 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 27, 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 ...

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 ...

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

Israel's massive operation in the West Bank refugee camp resembles its strategy of "mowing the lawn" with Gaza bombings.

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.

July 21, 2014 - Mowing the Grass in Gaza, by Prof. Efraim Inbar and Dr. Eitan Shamir

December 8, 2012 - 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 ...

October 18, 2018 - But no matter how successful they may or may not be, they shouldn’t be seen as anything more than a military version of mowing the lawn. And just as grass grows back, so Hamas will rebuild its strength. Israel’s challenge is not to uproot the grass, but to maintain the capability to keep ...