Posted on 08/06/2006 3:13:03 PM PDT by Basel2005
An attitude sorely lacking among Americans of both sexes.............
There's been a number of articles about women in the IDF today. Whenever I see a topic cluster like this it makes me wonder what the agenda behind it is. Why the sudden interest?
Because they are playing an increasingly important part in combat situations and newspaper editors believe it's about time they got their due. What other agenda could there possibly be?
To heck with any "agenda". Where are the photos?
Check out the video at the link.
For the the best pics of Israeli women in IDF, see this provided by a poster on another thread:
http://israelmilitary.net/showthread.php?t=13
What video?
Yeah, I just saw that link on the other thread, thanks. Muy caliente!
You are correct, sir. Thanks.
Speaking as a man who has been to Israel and seen the female reservists on duty there, I can say without any doubt, that there is nothing hotter than a hot Israeli chick with a M16 at the ready.
this is my rifle,
This is my gun,
one is for shooting,
and one is for fun.
(USMC ANON)
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A lot of Freeper guys are programmed to look at IDF babes brandishing firearms and find them kinda hot. They can't help it. You know what they say about boys and their toys...
I have no doubt. I have always thought Jewish babes were pretty hot. (I'm a gentile, but I am, shall we say, ecumenical when it comes to babes.) So you add in the youth, the physical fitness, and the outdoorsiness associated with military service, throw on a uniform and some gleaming implements of destruction, and I say (to quote John Kerry quoting Pres. Bush) bring it on!
"What video?"
The video at Ynet where the article is located. Just follow the link!
"I have always thought Jewish babes were pretty hot."
I have always thought gentile babes were very, very hot. The grass is always greener, I suppose.
It actually mucks with the wiring in a guy's head when he sees a woman who is simultaneously vulnerable and deadly, simultaneously playful and dead serious. It makes the photos inherently interesting. I want to protect these women, but they are beyond that. It gives them a bit of a goddess like quality.
If you see a ordinary photo of a pretty woman, you have no idea if she is an airhead or immature or irresponsible or whatnot. If the photo is of a woman in the IDF, a lot of that is resolved, so that makes her more compelling because you already know something about her just from the photo. You know she is a worthy type of woman.
These photos are also life affirming. These women are surrounded by the threat of death, but they refuse to give into it. The spirit of the toast l'chaim is still there. Look at the photo of the women on the beach. Enjoying the sun. Having a beer. Hanging out with a girlfriend. Flying a kite. An ordinary beautiful experience. But the gun is there. And the presence of that gun makes the image bittersweet because all the beauty in it seems to hang by a thread and can't be taken for granted. Kind of a metaphor for the whole Israeli experience. In a way, it's too easy for the artist to come up with a poignant shot.
There is also a certain pride one takes in the utter superiority of Western women. The Islamist yahoos on the other side of the border infantilize their women and don't trust them to walk out of the house without a male relative as an escort. The Israelis turn their teenyboppers into women and trust them to walk around with loaded Uzis and M-16s because their women are so responsible and reliable, and for lack of a better word so damn cool. They are given this huge responsibility at a very young age, and they just deal with it. How cool is that? A photo of an Israeli woman with her gun brings into high relief what the West is fighting for and what we are fighting against.
How cool is that he Jihadists get taken out by this one
Or this one:
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