Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!tektronix!orca!shark!hutch From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Newsgroups: net.college,net.flame Subject: Re: The Draft (not beer) Message-ID: <1190@shark.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 20:14:24 EST Article-I.D.: shark.1190 Posted: Tue Dec 11 20:14:24 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 03:50:15 EST References: <150@ihu1m.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.college:496 net.flame:7209|>> I don't see what makes them incapable of being able to perform in |>> any stituation (after all, they wanted equality.) In the Israeli |>> Army, the women will fight right alongside the men... |>> Walt Pesch | |That's a popular misconception about the Israeli army. Both men and |women are drafted, but Israeli women have not been assigned combat |duties since the 50's. When in Israel I was told that all women were |removed from combat after several female soldiers were killed rather |gruesomely during some border skirmish back then. |ken perlow I recall reading in the early seventies that one reason theat women were not being used in the Israeli army in combat or police situations any more was because the Arabs would fight longer and harder, refusing to surrender, because it was so unmanly to be defeated by a mere woman. Unfortunately the added ferocity of their resistance increased casualties on both sides. Hutch