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Gender equality needed in the IDF too
Orna Barbivai
Published: 09.03.18, 00:37
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1. Gender equality should be be in prisons too
Gene   (03.09.18)
Why are four times more male prisoners than females? The time came to end this racist inequality.
2. No Arab equality in IDF, Police, Civil Service, Law
(03.09.18)
3. The I.D.F. is not a social experiment. We need it to win!
Chaim ,   Israel   (03.09.18)
The I.D.F. is not a social experiment for politically correct theory. We need it to win! Every I.D.F. policy must be dictated by that obvious reality.
4. This is nonsense. Females do not have the bone density of
Rivkah   (03.10.18)
males and get stress fractures easily and could not even carry the rifle and backpack at the USMA (West Point) without getting stress fractures so that had to be modified as is so much for females to pass requirements. In 1948, Israel had males and females in the IDF equal in combat and that caused the deaths of males to soar as they compromised their missions to protect the women and the Arabs fought harder to avoid being defeated by females in battle. It was too costly in lives to continue. There is a place for ungodly females in the military in clerical, non-combat support technical and medical. Godly females should prefer prison to military service. Most females in this age are not godly and most males are not, either. That is a special calling for females to sacrifice so much to put haShem and family and children and husband before all else.
5. Look at the females in the line-up. They cannot look uniform
Rivkah   (03.11.18)
even standing in formation. A big problem with females in the military is that they disrupt male bonding. People in the military die for their friends. They don't die for a cause or the nation or whatever else is being fought for. They die for their friends. Disrupting male bonding means fewer are willing to die for their friends if they don't consider those in the unit friends because of the disruption of male bonding which happens when females are present in combat and in training. All female or all male units have been successful in Russian studies, but don't mix males and females in training/combat/air combat units.
6. Let the women have what they want
AHEm   (03.11.18)
Full equality but they should also share the same for facilities and showers as soldiers!
7. How does a 140 pound female soldier carry a240 pound wounded
Rivkah   (03.12.18)
male soldier to safety in battle? She can't. Females have bones that are not as dense as males. For a female to do tasks a skinny male can do means stress fractures for the female since her bones are not as thick or dense as male bones. So then you have a wounded 240 pound male soldier and a collapsed 140 pound female who collapsed from stress fractures trying to carry the wounded male to safety. I saw that at NAS Miramar (now MCAS Miramar) Clinic when female hospital corpsmen tried to lift a heart attack patient the ambulance was trying to bring to the Clinic E.R.. The females hospital corpsmen had to call for additional help (male help) to lift the heart attack victim who of course died since getting to the E.R. took two ambulance runs instead of scoop and run which saves lives.
8. Not the same
Moishe   (03.12.18)
I think i read bone breakings are 3 times higher by females in the IDF,and in the US Army half of the woman cant throw a handgrenade wide enough,they will kill themselfs...

I tell you why people are stupid.It was written in the law-ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL IN FRONT OF THE LAW!But people forget the last 5 words!!!Everybody is different.
9. You Can't Argue With Stupid
DSM ,   USA   (03.12.18)
There is nothing like downgrading the IDF for the sake of feminists.
10. Equality?
Leah ,   Beit Shemesh   (03.25.18)
Does the army really need so many recruits? Shouldn't the needs of the army come before trying to prove a political point?
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