Summary

The Bar-Ilan University strategic-studies center to which both authors of “‘Mowing the Grass’: Israel’s Strategy for Protracted Intractable Conflict” (2014) belong: Efraim Inbar is its Director and Eitan Shamir a Senior Researcher, and both give it as their affiliation on the article (‘Mowing the Grass’: Israel’s Strategy for Protracted Intractable Conflict, PDF p.3, p.25).

Details

  • The article’s byline affiliation is “Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel” (PDF p.3).

  • Earlier BESA Center publications cited in the article’s notes include Steven R. David, Fatal Choices: Israel’s Policy of Targeted Killing, Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 51 (September 2002), and Uzi Rubin, From Nuisance to Strategic Threat: The Missile Attacks from the Gaza Strip on Southern Israel (Hebrew), Studies in Middle East Security No. 87 (February 2011) (PDF p.11-12, bibliography PDF p.28).

  • The Center published Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025 by Danny Orbach, Jonathan Boxman, Yagil Henkin and Jonathan Braverman as Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 213; its staff, including Alona Briner, prepared the research for publication (Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025, PDF p.1, p.21).

‘Mowing the Grass’: Israel’s Strategy for Protracted Intractable Conflict, Efraim Inbar, Eitan Shamir