Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday that the Israeli military was “mowing the lawn” in the Israeli-occupied West Bank but will eventually need to “pull out the roots.”
“Mowing the lawn” is a term the Israeli military used for its bombing campaigns in Gaza pre-October 7. The idea is that the raids would reduce Hamas’s military capability but not eliminate it, and it would eventually grow back, requiring another bombing campaign.
“The process is an attack to prevent terror. We are mowing the lawn, [but] the moment will also come when we will pull out the roots, that must be done,” Gallant said.
Israeli settler and military violence surged in the West Bank amid Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. The Israeli government has also approved new major land grabs in the occupied territory, and settlers have been taking over Palestinian homes. The Israeli actions have naturally led to an increase in armed Palestinian resistance.
“These terror organizations that call themselves by all kinds of names, in Nur Shams, or Tulkarm, or Far’a, or Jenin — they should be wiped out. Every such terrorist should be eliminated, [or] if they surrender, arrest them. There is no other option, use all the forces, everyone who is needed, with full strength,” Gallant said.
Last week, Israel launched its largest assault on the West Bank since 2002, which is still underway in the northern areas of Jenin and Tulkarm. Israel Hayom reported that Israel is planning more escalations in the West Bank and now considers the territory the second most critical front, immediately after Gaza.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 33 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s operation in the West Bank since it was launched last Tuesday. A total of 685 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since October 7.
Genocide in action, before our eyes. Weird that we make fun of the Germans for basically the same thing
No, it's not weird we make fun of them for the same thing. All genocide is equally terrible, and Israel deserves every ounce of punishment we can milk out, but that does not absolve wondering if it's "weird" that we make fun of the Germans.
The hypocriscy is weird.
I guess kinda
I can kinda put it another way. Hitler was dumb and should have invoked the right of Germany to defend herself and the right to mow the lawn to keep the terrorist population down, with periodically pulling the roots. Hope we can appreciate the dark humor. The first genocide televised worldwide, is in tge process of being normalized.
Normalized is the new war strategy. Go after lopulation and its indmfrastructure for living, Homes, water, electriity, food, roads and distribution systems, hospitals. emergency services. Law engorcement, energy, stores, bakeries, farms. Everything.
This new warfare eliminates the need for ground invasion.
The problem with this strategy is – nobody is safe. The illusion of security of American continent is amazing. Israel should give us a pause.
Regarding the statements around Germany, there was no logical reason to invade Polska or annex Österreich or Čekoslovenská anyways. “self defense” sounds like the Rus, saying there’s a threat that doesn’t exist.
And I agree with the rest, however. The most horrible things are getting normalised before our very own eyes – the invasion of a soverign nation (my home nation), the genocide of a whole group (the Palestinians,) daily nuclear saber-ratteling (Russia), and threats to annex a whole nation because of some petty claim (Taiwan and China)
Like pulling out a lawn one blade of grass at a time, or keeping grass out of a garden surrounded by it. There's a perfect metaphor, a Gallant attempt at the virtually impossible.
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a deliberate act, typically as part of a systematic campaign, that causes human suffering or death on a large scale.
"he was handed over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity"
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Well… After almost one year of constant bombardment the roots of Hamas in Gaza are alive and strong…! What makes this idiot think he can pull the roots of Palestinians in West Bank…!?
“This terrorist organization that call themselves the IDF — they should be wiped out. Every such terrorist should be eliminated, [or] if they surrender, arrest them. There is no other option, use all the forces, everyone who is needed, with full strength,” Gallant said.
Fixed.
nice.
Wars R. U.S, slowly but surely fixing the mistakes of the world! One idiot at a time!
The ICJ advisory opinion in July ruled that:
1) The Likud Gov’t is practicing Apartheid.
2) All territories occupied “pre-1949” must be evacuated asap
3) reparations for damages caused since 1948 are owed
No amount of killing changes this earthquake of a ruling. The Likud is hell bent on destroying Israel.
The rulings from the ICJ haven't done anything to stop the genocide. South Africa, China and India would still rather do business with Israel than call for sanctions or military action.
No one is helping the Palestinian victims stop the genocide except the Houthis.
The ICJ is a fraud.
UN Session started 10th Sept. TBD
Roots do need to be pulled out, but they are rooted in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. There can be no peace so long as the Apartheid State exists.
The people do not equal the evil state. It is the evil state and its leaders who must be rooted out, the Zionists.
God save our friends in the West Bank illegally occupied by Herr Netanyahu Göring
Israel is a monster.
It needs to die.
End apartheid in Palestine!
I truly find this story, exhaustingly, ironic. And again (sorry for any redundancy). But, I rather think the Germans thought along similar lines, with regard to the Jews.
I have never been censored before.
Is truth a casualty of war?….
Genocide is an ugly word, in any circumstance.
Truth and honesty are essential on sites such as antiwar.
Except around the War of Russian Agression Agaisnt Ukraine
Antiwar.com is very truthful about that war.
Whether in war or in ethnic cleansing, it is routine to dehumanize the enemy. Humans generally recoil at killing other humans, but are much less resistant to slaughtering "beasts" or "brutes", "subhuman animals", "pests", "gooks", or "vermin".
But Israel has gone a step further and reduced the Palestinians to green plants. Because "mowing the lawn", sounds much kinder and gentler than "exterminating the pests".
Jill Stein, President. Time to pull the plug on Israel.
Except Hamas isn’t in the West Bank.
Another source:
‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that a strong Hamas (but not too strong) would keep the peace and reduce pressure for a Palestinian state.
As far back as December 2012, Mr. Netanyahu told the prominent Israeli journalist Dan Margalit that it was important to keep Hamas strong, as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Mr. Margalit, in an interview, said that Mr. Netanyahu told him that having two strong rivals, including Hamas, would lessen pressure on him to negotiate toward a Palestinian state.
The official in the prime minister’s office said Mr. Netanyahu never made this statement. But the prime minister would articulate this idea to others over the years….
While Israeli military and intelligence leaders have acknowledged failings leading up to the Hamas attack, Mr. Netanyahu has refused to address such questions. And with a war waging in Gaza, a political reckoning for the man who has served as prime minister for 13 of the last 15 years, is, for the moment, on hold.
But Mr. Netanyahu’s critics say that his approach to Hamas had, at its core, a cynical political agenda: to keep Gaza quiet as a means of staying in office without addressing the threat of Hamas or simmering Palestinian discontent.
….nyt
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