[neverdem]

Debunking the Israeli 'women in combat' myth

“Few serious armies use women in combat roles. Israel, which drafts most of its young women and uses them in all kinds of military work, has learned from experience to take them out of combat zones. Tests show that few women have the upper-body strength required for combat tasks. Keeping combat forces all male would not be discriminatory, as were earlier racial segregation schemes in the military, because men and women are different both physically and psychologically,” said the Feb. 5, 1990, National Review.

If they see combat, it's by accident. They're in support units, not the combat arms: infantry, armor and artillery.

[SkyDancer]

This "Women in combat" thing as been an ongoing debate here at FR for sometime. Sometimes I'll jump in and post sometimes I don't. But as for Israel. It's a country the size of Santa Barbara county in California with a population of about 8 million of which about six million are Jewish. They are surrounded by Arab/Muslim countries. They cannot lose any conflict or war because Israel would be destroyed.

All the world wants both Israel and Jews destroyed.

Of course I would expect a web site like World News Daily to come up with a story like that. I guess they also debunk the women in combat in the Red Army during WWII.