{"id":3224,"date":"2021-05-17T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T19:58:38","slug":"mow-the-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3224","title":{"rendered":"Mow The Lawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/mowthelawn\/mowthelawn.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/mowthelawn\/mowthelawn650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"755\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, the other day I&#8217;m doomscrolling the news from Gaza,<\/strong> and I stumbled over <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/likening-palestinians-to-blades-of-grass\/\" target=\"_blank\">this 8 year-old Truthout article<\/a> that somebody dug up and tweeted. The callousness of Washington foreign-policy think tanks \u2014 and the Israeli general public \u2014 is perversely spectacular:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Israeli hardliners joke about the periodic need to decimate each new generation of Palestinian militants as \u201cmowing the grass,\u201d a process underway again in new bombardments of Gaza. This ugly metaphor has also penetrated the think-tank world of Official Washington, as ex-CIA analyst Elizabeth Murray learned.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">In early 2010, one of Washington DC\u2019s most prestigious think tanks was holding a seminar on the Middle East which included a discussion of Israel\u2019s December 2008-January 2009 assault on Gaza which killed about 1,300 Palestinians. When the death toll was mentioned, one expert on the panel smiled enigmatically and intoned: \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate, but every once in a while you have to mow the lawn.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>11&#215;13 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/mowthelawn\/mowthelawn.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 869kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the other day I&#8217;m doomscrolling the news from Gaza, and I stumbled over this 8 year-old Truthout article that somebody dug up and tweeted. The callousness of Washington foreign-policy think tanks \u2014 and the Israeli general public \u2014 is perversely spectacular: Israeli hardliners joke about the periodic need to decimate each new generation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,168,9],"tags":[1169,167,594,1462,1168],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-palestine","category-war-and-peace","tag-mowing-the-grass-israel","tag-gaza","tag-idf","tag-palestine","tag-truthout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}