Posted on 01/11/2005 6:11:00 AM PST by neverdem
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January 11, 2005, 7:30 a.m. Israeli Women in Fatigues
There's nobody quite like Elaine Donnelly. For many years, she has led the fight to resist the political correctness that constantly threatens to engulf the uniformed military and destroy its integrity. In her NRO piece of Jan 7, "The Army's Gender War," she improved on my earlier NR article on the same topic: "GI Janes, By Stealth." How could she not? Although I have been writing on the topic of women in combat for at least a decade, it was her research that formed the foundation of that piece.
Contrary to common contention, Israel does not currently allow women in combat they've been banned since 1948. But they have a history of integrated fighting there that we can learn from.
During the period of the British Mandate for Palestine, Palestinian Jews formed an elite, semi-clandestine, volunteer youth organization called Palmach. During Israel's War of Independence, Palmach served as the core of Haganah, the forerunner of the Israel Defense Force (IDF).
The ideology of Palmach was egalitarian socialism, and according to the Israeli military historian Marin Van Creveld, the organization "was sexually integrated to an extent rarely attained by any armed force before or since." Van Creveld writes that before Israeli independence, Palmach women accompanied men on missions, especially "undercover missions that involved obtaining intelligence, transmitting messages, smuggling arms, and the like."
Despite Palmach's ideological commitment to radical equality for women, the practical experience of the 1948 war which involved coordinated, combined arms-offensive actions convinced the leaders of Israel and the IDF that the dangers of women in combat outweighed the benefits including commitment to an abstract concept of equality between the sexes. For one thing, according to the late Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, women reduced the combat effectiveness of Haganah units because men took steps to protect them out of "fear of what the Arabs would do to [the] women if they captured them."
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http://www.nationalreview.com/owens/owens200501110730.asp
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now i know why they are pushing women in the us army so hard; the Israeli's have already done it.
the implications are not good for the us army.
You mean of the five, I support you in that declaration 1,000%!!!!!!!!
You'll have to define "disappointed". Personally, I've always found Jewish girls very sexy, clothed or otherwise, and the young lady at the bottom second from the right in the larger group photo is an absolute doll.
These young warrior women look lovely, but there's something about them that makes me think I wouldn't want to cross them ...
Okay, who's gunna jump on this gal for having her finger on the trigger?
Is she dumb, stupid or just a young woman you'd wanna be polite to?
You'll have to define "disappointed".
Oh, my only disappointment was that our FRiend Neverdem didn't include photos himself. Glad I am that other FReepers pitched in and included the lovely ladies of the IDF.
Guns Before Butter.
Yeah, they're in the blood bag, I mean the first aid kit.
No - look again. It's a FEMALE CHOPPER . .
"I like the two on the left."
I was thinking the same thing.
I don't see a finger on a trigger. The last pic in comment# 4 has the finger outside and below the trigger guard.
They can clean my gun anytime!
Sonny, when we get old MOST of us don't look so "cute". I ought to know... I am pushing 80 myself. But when I was a young guy... well, I wasn't hard to look at ... so said my late wife. : ^ )
She misses me.
Yup, you are right.
Why do you say that?
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