What they told Senator Chris Murphy behind closed doors...

[Pluvious]

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This was later clarified by our president saying that "we maybe just attacked them out of habit"

https://youtube.com/shorts/T2PWt3FIaH4

[BComplex]

1. Holy shit! I'm so grateful for Chris Murphy. He is a warrior for the left,

and I'm liking him the best.

[Uncle Joe]

2. There is no strategy but the tactics are a variation of "Mowing the grass:" also known as eternal war.

Mowing the grass (Hebrew: כיסוח דשא ) is a metaphor used to describe periodic Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip to manage the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During such attacks, Israel has targeted Palestinian militants,[1][2] civilians,[3][4] and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.[3][5][6]

The strategy is usually carried out by conducting short, sharp military operations to maintain a certain level of control over the area without committing to a long-term political solution, similar to how one would mow a lawn to keep it neat and tidy.[7]

The term was coined by Efraim Inbar and Eitan Shamir,[8] two scholars associated with the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, where they described how "Israel is acting in accordance with a “mowing the grass” strategy. After a period of military restraint, Israel is acting to severely punish Hamas for its aggressive behavior, and degrading its military capabilities – aiming at achieving a period of quiet."[9]

According to Adam Taylor in The Washington Post, "the phrase implies the Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and their supply of crude but effective homemade weapons are like weeds that need to be cut back."[1]

Naftali Bennett referred to the idea in a speech in 2018 when he said "מי שלא מכסח את הדשא, הדשא מכסח אותו" ('He who does not mow the grass, the grass mows him').[10]

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I think these tactics are a stalling strategy until favorable dynamics point the way to ethnic cleansing and/or genocide.

Thanks for the thread Pluvious

[Pluvious]

3. Another word comes to mind...

Culling

[Uncle Joe]

4. My only issue

with the word culling is that it implies the victims are wild or domestic animals.

[agingdem]

5. and yet the only "animals" that need to be culled

are sitting in the Oval Office and in Congress...

[ananda]

10. Why is that an issue.

That's exactly how nazis think.

[usonian]

6. Uncle Joe (65,000 posts) WOW! HOORAY!

Party like it's Saint Patrick's Day.

Awesome achievement.

Now, let me go read your post.

[lindysalsagal]

7. Chris Murphy is a very good man. Believe him.

[LuvLoogie]

8. Thank you for the sharing Senator.

I don't like when he states how mad we should be.

We're already mad. It's your colleagues who aren't mad enough. Send some mad folk on the shows to shout down the GOPs.

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. Trump attacked Iran cuz MBS offered $$$ - it's been a Saudi wetdream for decades to eradicate the Shia's there.