It didn't start on October 7

Mowing the grass

Mowing the grass is a metaphor used to describe periodic Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip to manage the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During such attacks, Israel targeted Palestinian militants, Palestinian civilians, and the civilian infrastructure of the Gaza Strip.

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.

The term was coined by Efraim Inbar and Eitan Shamir, two columnists for The Jerusalem Post and strategic studies researchers.

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."

Naftali Bennett referred to the idea in a speech in 2018 when he said "He who does not mow the grass, the grass mows him".

No one can dispute it is a total mess.
The Israelis have been forced to accept that this current war is not
the first or the last.
As long as Islam requires that all the non Islamic lands must be
conquered then it will continue.
They make no secret of it, in fact the Ayatollahs in Iran call rallies
to call for Death to America, Death to Israel.
Hamas is just the latest name being used.
It really does not matter it will go on for another 1000 years.
It is possible that it can only be stopped by killing all moslems
everywhere. That would just be a copy of Islam's policy.
Now I read that there is a possibility that Iran might obtain nukes
from Nth Korea as did Pakistan.
Bloody depressing isn't it !

The only thing Australia - that really has no influence globally - can do is realise that we don't have a dog in the fight, and stop tolerating Palestinian supporters/Israel-haters here. Charge them with incitement, deport them and/or lock up any of them who are citizens, and throw away the key.

The claim that Israel is also fighting for the West is largely bullsh.t because the West, including Australia, is deliberately importing the Islamic trash into their countries, along with the other Third World riff-raff they are replacing us with for the use of our evil, corrupt politicians.

In the meantime, Donald Trump has advised Hamas to lay down their arms ‘or die’. Despite all the good intentions, and talk of peace, the total extinction of Hamas and everyone like them, is the only way Israel will ever see peace. Hamas and company act like wild animals and should be treated as such.

It would be nice to see a peace deal, then some attention might go to Australia's natural heritage facing genocide at the hands of net zero terrorists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohhh9PPIk5U

We keep getting told there is rampant famine, genocide, mass infant deaths, all hospitals on their last legs etc etc.

If any of that was the slightest bit true, then the Gazans would be overjoyed at a peace deal no matter the terms. Hamas would be running (not slow walking) to lay down their arms, surrender and get some relief from the famine/genocide for their people.

But no. they are slow walking the peace process. Still trying to negotiate a partial peace they can call victory which would allow them to gear up for another 7/10 in a year or three.

The famine is BS. People on the brink of starvation don't negotiate terms.
The genocide is BS.
The Gazan desire for peace is BS.
Hamas's concern for their human shields is BS.

Its all hype - antisemitic hype.

Dear Paul,

I appreciate your kind and true statement that «The Israeli people are just as much the victims of the Zionist-Nazi's as were the German people the victims of the German-Nazi's.»

This is what "Zionism" disgracefully came to be in our times, but I would like to throw in a bit of an historical perspective because that's not what Zionism used to be.

Zionism used to be a vibrant positive movement, which sought to change and lighten up the lives of oppressed people, from being merchants, bankers, dealers, brokers and the like, and hated for that, or alternately unproductive pale scholars who sat on hard benches all day studying Torah and never seeing any sunlight, into farmers who work and produce in the great outdoors, getting their hands dirty with real mud.

Zionism sought to free people from the stifling control of clerics (Rabbis).

Zionism used to be inclusive, embrace and incorporate all other people on the land as equals, whatever be their race or religion. The only ones the original Zionists eradicated from their land, which they stole, were malaria-carrying mosquitoes which made large swaths of the land uninhabitable for humans.

Unlike in both the lands Zionists came from and the land they arrived at, Zionism treated men and women completely equally.

In today's terminology, some century ago, one could therefore describe Zionism as "Progressive".

And that is quite what the native Muslim clerics hated most,
they didn't want their authority challenged,
they didn't want their women emancipated,
and so they, from the 1920's on, incited their mobs to attack and lynch the Zionists.

That was Zionism's first incarnation.

In its second incarnation, Zionism in Israel became a synonym for good citizenship: you help an old lady to cross the road; you help your friends in their homework; you visit the sick; you donate to the poor; you give way on the road... then you are a Zionist, and this is why most Israelis would still define themselves as Zionists!

The despicable Zionist-Nazi's you speak of are a third incarnation of the word "Zionist" and indeed very different.