This is not politically correct, but we have to put the truth on the table. After all, we are the liberated children of G-d. There is truth and we must speak it.
Last week, the chief rabbi of Tzfat, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, called upon the chief of staff to resign for his promotion of mixed-gender combat units. I agree. Do you know why? Because he cannot identify the enemy. During the Protective Edge campaign, I asked General Eizenkott, who was then deputy chief of staff, who the enemy was. He could not answer me.
As opposed to his recent predecessors, Chief of Staff Eizenkott has been working very hard to prepare the IDF for the next war instead of the previous one. Apparently, the IDF already has an answer for a missile attack on numerous targets simultaneously. I do not want to go into detail, but the basic impression is that the chief of staff is preparing the IDF for developing threats in a highly professional manner.
We must understand, however, that the ability of an army to carry out its defined objectives requires more than just technological prowess or force of numbers. The right fighting spirit is also necessary. And that is what the chief of staff is missing. I would even say he projects the very opposite.
And that is why he should resign. Because it doesn’t matter how much you have prepared your army and how professional and well-trained it is. (The truth is that while are islands of professionalism in the army, as a whole it is not as professional as we would like it to be). The commander of the most sophisticated fighter plane or submarine cannot defeat a young Arab girl who knows who she is, who can identify her enemy, and who intends to win.
When you surrender to politically correctness, when your first goal is to find favor in the eyes of the foolishness of feminism and the radical Left, when you ignore the most fundamental facts of life and are willing to pay for those ideas with Israel’s security, winning is clearly not your goal.
Why doesn’t Israel send mixed-gender basketball teams to international competitions? Why only men? Why is it that what is so clear in sports, which is nothing more than games, is not clear to the chief of staff in war, which is about life and death? What’s so complicated? If you have to bring a bench so a female soldier can jump over the wall and you allow her to remove weights, Israel’s security is not your chief concern.
Let me ask another question. What will happen if the enemy captures one of these female combat soldiers, G-d forbid? Why can’t we take action to prevent these things from happening instead of reacting after they happen? Why do we have to live the most fearsome nightmares when they can so easily be avoided? Just because the politicians are embarrassed to tell the truth?
There are many non-combat units where female soldiers can do excellent work. So why push them into tanks? If the chief of staff cannot focus on his main goal – Israel’s triumph – in the face of all the other agendas and politics, he shouldn’t be there.