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Mixed IDF units to see lighter physical tests for female soldiers
Yossi Yehoshua
Published: 18.09.17, 14:05
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1. If the test is no good, why do the men have to do it?
David ,   New york   (09.18.17)
This absolutely sounds like a man making excuses and lowering the bar for political reasons.
If 4 magazines are enough, why do the men need 6?
If you never need to climb such a wall, why must the men pass that test?

It's a very dangerous thing when politics trumps national security
2. the right to self- defense as a female Jew
erin ,   usa   (09.18.17)
I can't foresee a reason any person should go over a high wall, not with the weaponry available to people today, it’s too dangerous. It's interesting that God made Adam a helper. This indicates that she was able to do all the same things Adam did and in addition to it, she could carry babies. If any woman has been pregnant and cleaned house or cooked meals while pregnant, then she has done more than many people give her credit for being able to do. Women are too degraded with speech in this (U.S.) country. So ability is not what I see the question as being here. I remember a story of a U.S. military veteran, Jewish, left to fight an advancing Asian army in a U.S. war all by himself in a series of trenches/ fox holes. He ran up and down those trenches all night using all the weaponry and ordinances left thereby his fellow soldiers when they left earlier in the day to go to safety. The man worked all night with everything he had to save his life. And he was able to walk out of there in the morning. I think many Jews feel or have felt as this man does about reality in this world that does not care if they live. I think the discussion that is not in the article but is in every IDF soldier's mind is that they are possibly going to face people who will kill them if each soldier does not try to stay alive while fighting in a war. When that IDF person or Jew living in the diaspora realizes that there are more than a few people worldwide willing to kill them, they often think about all they could do to stay alive if the environment around them presents this to them. So, as a girl, if I need to learn to climb a rock wall to save my life- I want to learn it. If I need to learn how to escape mortal injury- I want to learn it. If I need to learn those who will attempt to kill me abilities' of their weapons ahead of running into them- then I want to learn it. But, I know that I who does not run, at this time, have available to me every method available to defend myself. I know that if I am unable to run, or I am unable to crawl up a beachhead embankment, or I am unable to procure any weapons for self- defense against weapons of deadly force that I can walk into any battle zone and do God's words the entire time I am there- and stay alive. I don't know what other women think, but I can assure you that women who are Jews know they are able to do whatever is necessary to keep themselves and their fellow soldiers alive equally with their male Jewish soldiers who are also defending themselves to stay alive when attacked.
3. the right to self- defense cont'd.
erin ,   usa   (09.19.17)
. So I've seen the U.S. movie G.I. Jane, and while I feel women in the U.S. have been made to suffer like this person in the movie, Demi, I don't feel Jews who are women feel they are limited to just being physically fit to carry out combat. I believe every Jew, male and female alike, know if they have ever been threatened with physical attack that they are to consider 'every option' God makes available to them and feel comfortable trying to stay alive. One really has to watch the movie "Dunkirk" to see how the evil people who tried to wipe out the Jews really were. There are still ‘evil’ people trying to kill Jews worldwide. And while each male Jew and each female Jew should receive support, and adaptation to their abilities to defend themselves in the IDF and in Israel , it would be my desire that every female Jew and every male Jew learn how to ask God for absolutely everything. Because it is not the number of bullet magazines that will save her life, or his life, but it is the availability of exactly what each he or her needs at the moment they are attacked that matters. That’s why God is the best resource to ask, because He gives the perfect answer and it’s immediate- and we know when He gives it He has also approved our use of it according to His word. So there is no wrongdoing- only self- defense. And even in this cruel, evil world that some people have made it to be this era, a person should have the right to try to keep themselves alive for however long they can. Regardless if every other human abandons them.
And for the law enforcement officers in Oregon who have read these postings, you're welcome for me telling you how to best do your job amidst a great deal of evil coming at you after I leave, and doing so in a righteous, lasting way. (God's words always overpower the 'darkness'.)
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