Summary
The doctrine of resistance adhered to, in Inbar and Shamir’s account, by organisations such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizballah: a doctrine that assures its adherents the long, historic, currently difficult struggle against Israel will eventually end in victory despite temporary setbacks, whose strategic goal is to demonstrate continuous violent resistance and keep the historic struggle against the Zionist entity alive (‘Mowing the Grass’: Israel’s Strategy for Protracted Intractable Conflict, PDF p.7-8).
Details
- The organisations holding it, the authors write, believe time is on their side, as Israel will eventually disappear as a result of the protracted struggle; their behaviour is presented as reminiscent of the role assumed by Palestinian groups after the defeat of the Arab states in 1967 (PDF p.8, note 17, citing Yaari, ‘The Muqawama Doctrine’, Washington Institute, 13 November 2006, and Milstein, ‘The Challenge of al-Muqawama (Resistance) to Israel’, Strategic Assessment, February 2010).
- Israel’s Mowing the Grass is characterised in answer to it as an anti-Muqawama strategy, and the authors add that mowing ironically mirrors the patient Arab Muqawamah strategy (PDF p.8, p.11).
Related pages
‘Mowing the Grass’: Israel’s Strategy for Protracted Intractable Conflict, Mowing the Grass, Hamas, Hizballah, Islamic Jihad