Jan 17, 2018

Quote of the Day

the IDF needs to win wars, and is not meant to be advancing enlightened and liberal agendas, and for this it needs to allow its soldiers and the entire army to be faithful to its mission.... I am not excited about this campaign. At the end of the day there are roles and tasks for men and there are roles and tasks for women. That is how God created the world and that is how the world is good. Oy Vavoy if women will become men and men will become women. The world needs both male and female figures and anyone who tries to blur the clear differences is doing wrong for both him and for the world..

  -- MK Betzalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi), regarding the appointment of the first female commander of the Air Force Pilots

if she was advanced and promoted solely to advance a feminist agenda yet is not actually qualified for the position and cannot fulfill her responsibilities to the fullest, I would agree with Smotrich. If she fulfills her responsibilities just fine and is fully capable of doing her job and was advanced and promoted because she was qualified and deserved it like anybody else, then I would disagree with Smotrich. Being that I do not know, I can't say anything definitive and can just hope the IDF promoted her based on professional considerations.



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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 17, 2018 6:22 PM

    A Yasher Koach to the intelligent and wise thinking MK Smotrich! He hit the nail on the head and has a Jewish neshamah!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 17, 2018 8:05 PM

    I think it's safe to say that if Smotrich is falling back on gender roles for an argument, that she's completely qualified for the position.

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  3. NachumJanuary 18, 2018 10:37 AM

    Well, they're certainly *promoting* the stories for certain reasons that have nothing to do with being qualified or not.

    A friend of mine, who served in the IAF as a pilot for twenty years and is very much opposed to what Smirtovich said, once posted a protest that when a few dozen pilots graduate, most of the news stories focus on the one or two women among them (especially if they're religious), as if the thirty or forty men didn't also just do something incredible.

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  4. Rafi G.January 18, 2018 11:15 AM

    dog bites man isnt a story. man bites dog is. Every season has 30 or 40 male graduates in the pilots course, so that isnt a story, as incredible as it is. A woman graduating, and even more so a religious woman, is a story

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  5. MomoJanuary 18, 2018 2:15 PM

    Not here or there but I wonder what is his wife thinks of the issue...

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