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Originally Posted by KMA-628
Women are fully integrated into the Israeli military because the shit that goes on in Isreal doesn't differentiate between civillian or soldier, man or woman, adult or child. Even if you are a civilian, you are pretty much always at risk and almost always living in a war-zone like climate.
For us, it has always been a "send the boys" kinda thing. Wars were never something that "involved" the children and the women (i.e. in the bullets whizzing past your head kinda sense, not the staying home and worrying about daddy kinda sense).
It is a totally different situation for the Israelis, and while I appreciate their situation and how they have handled integration, i do not wish us to experience what they have in order to have developed their integrated military.
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I had not thought of it in that light. Necessity is truely the mother of invention in the Israeli situation. Excluding 9-11 and Pearl harbor when there were attacks on U.S. soil, those who have been threatened in the U.S are primarily those who've gone to war. I can see this as fostering a "protect the women and children" type of attitude. It makes sense that in the Israeli situation everyone who is threatened, fights. They're forced to do it by their situation. It makes a lot of sense. From what I understand there is a lot of turnover in their military as every young person has a term to serve. I am assuming that this circulation would expose the men to work with women so that they are able to handle the concept better and treat them as military equals in a better sense. I could see how our situation in the U.S. does not lend itself to the same kind of integration so smoothly.
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