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Daas Torah: Mixed Bases Mean Less Protection
Because bases stand well-guarded, with soldiers and weapons within, an attack of that magnitude took everyone by surprise.
Prominent Torah Sages later explained the base lacked even less Heavenly Protection because it was one of the only mixed-gender bases in the country at that time.
This is a touchy article to write, so I waited until now. I feel for everyone involved and everyone who suffered and continues to suffer.
But the Rambam says that if we don't seek to be honest with ourselves and improve our actions and attitudes, then THAT is cruelty.
If our good yet misguided intentions soured Heavenly Judgment against us, then it is a kindness to take an honest look at what really went wrong and fix it so it won't happen again...even if it hurts to do it.
Why Davka One of the Main Bases with Field Observers?
The answer was yes.
Furthermore, this base employed female field observers.
(These are the young women who watch screens all day for evidence of enemy activity.)
Field observation has been repeatedly used by the media and military officials to glorify the female role in the military and the female draft.
Noting a how good females tend to be at what usually is passive, boring work, it's the area of field observation that they tend to enthuse about when it comes to female military service.
No other occupation, and especially not combat, allows for females to succeed beyond males in the military.
So they use this.
And this base was breached in a incomprehensible manner.
It never should have happened; there are normally too many barriers in place.
When I heard that not only a mixed base bore the brunt of the worst attack on an army, but davka one which held the banner for the female-dominated field observers, my heart dropped.
I realized it was a message from Hashem.
But I felt like it couldn't be spoken about due to all the rampant trauma surrounding the entire disaster.
Superficially, it sounds like blaming the victim.
But really, the blame lies with the terrorists themselves, plus the media and military officials who relentlessly promoted female military service as a moral ideal.
Daas Torah on the Mandatory Enlistment of Jewish Girls
Rav Avigdor Miller gave one kind of reason:
torasavigdor.org/qa/rav-avigdor-miller-on-jewish-girls-in-the-idf/
He also says this:
Now, we want to save העם היושב בציון – we want to help out the Jews who live in Eretz Yisroel.
We want to stop the wars; and therefore if we’re going to fight against the adverse influences there, if we’re going to exert pressure on the government that they should remedy these evils, maybe we can have a hand in protecting the Jews in Eretz Yisroel.
We want them to wipe out p----graphy. We want them to stop drafting girls in the army. Because girls in the army means only one thing.
Like that Israeli general who wrote a book about the Israeli army. We can trust what he tells us. And he states openly that for most girls the induction into the army is their first experience in znus. For most Israeli girls the army is a house of harlotry.
So now you have an institution, the Israeli army, which is one big house of pr-st-t-tion and the girls are forced into it. Now that’s not my statement. It’s a statement by a general who wrote a history of the Israel Defense Forces and he makes that statement openly.
He doesn’t make it in a clandestine secret way that you have to read between the lines. He says it openly. They’re not ashamed.
https://torasavigdor.org/qa/rav-avigdor-miller-on-helping-out-in-medinas-yisroel/
I heard first-hand verification of this at one point too, but the details escape me now.
Having said that, a great many female soldiers (especially the more religious ones) will feel outraged and insulted if you mention that to them.
So one shouldn't relate to them that way.
Women also get very, very offended at the implication that they can be taken advantage of or beguiled more easily than men — or even at all.
Many modern women take pride in being nobody's fool and smart and so on.
Ironically, Rashi actually defines the daas kalah of women mentioned in the Talmud as being more easily convinced or seduced.
A truly smart woman understands this vulnerability, so protects herself accordingly.
The avoidance of potentially harmful situations has been a mainstay of smart women throughout history.
In my experience, even very assertive, sophisticated, and feisty females can end up in a mess BECAUSE of their accompanying sense of adventure and readiness to grab a bull by its horns (so to speak).
I've personally seen very assertive and savvy women seduced or something similar. Sometimes, they're more vulnerable to being exploited because they are so confident about their own power and shrewdness, they don't notice they're being manipulated.
Especially when it feeds into their ego or need for appreciation of their superwomaness.
On the other side of it, the "mama bear" archetype also exists. And women, particularly young women, tend to be incredible self-sacrificing idealists.
We see this when young women get married and become mothers. The passionate idealism and dedication they not only express, but act on is breathtaking.
(In fact, it is so common, people don't even notice it as something special. But it is.)
So any society that convinces its young women of the supreme value of a certain ideal will find myriads of young women ready to sacrifice everything for the wholehearted expression of that ideal.
For Jewish women attracted to combat units and intelligence in the army, you hear a passionate desire to protect Am Yisrael.
Some perceive their obligation as mixed with religious duty.
Recently, it came to light that a Jewish woman with a prestigious position in the army had a heart attack at age 40 — with no prior health issues.
What was her position?
She was responsible for organizing funerals for all the murdered soldiers.
I see her heart attack as a STRENGTH and not a weakness.
A wonderful feeling Jewish woman, her heart could simply not bear the suffering of Am Yisrael any longer.
She did everything she could to carry the murdered al kiddush Hashem to a proper and respectful burial.
And because she is a JEWISH WOMAN who FEELS for all those suffering, her heart could no longer bear the weight of its sorrow.
Baruch Hashem, she in on the mend.
Yes, Women are Super Talented & Competent. That's Not the Point.
I personally know a now-charedi rebbetzin who once attained a very high position with the army as a smart successful secular women. A dedicated and intelligent professional, she initially made a career of the military and received lots of privileges.
(She eased out after doing teshuvah, then married and produced a lot of really lovely children. Channeling her intelligence, energies, and dedication to marriage and motherhood worked out excellently for her. And yes, she also found a job teaching at a religious girls school.)
One of the women captured by Hamas and returned held a high position with serious responsibility — which she shouldered with great dedication.
And yes, their intelligence or observation work may even save lives at times.
Yet spiritual physics indicate that if they wouldn't be there at all, they'd save even MORE lives.
Regardless of their personal feelings and sincere idealism, Hashem doesn't want them there at all — for their own good and the good of Am Yisrael.
And media reports abound with the heroism of a handful of women in battle during the Horrific Invasion from Gaza.
Some saved lives.
(However, as noted above, the media WANTS to push the narrative of the successful female combatant. If there was some kind of weakness in her combat, they will not publish it because it doesn't fit the narrative they promote. So we can't really know exactly what happened.)
Having said all that, if a woman needs to bear arms for her own protection or others, she can. If she needs to shoot dead an assailant, so she certainly should.
Unfortunately, the negatives far outweigh any positives regarding Jewish females in the Israeli army, and especially the mandatory draft of teenage girls.
The Tragedy of Abortion Resulting from Female Enlistment
The army even funds the abortions.
An American friend of mine went to a clinic for a D&C after a miscarriage and looked around in shock at all the very young women in the waiting room with her.
My friend's heart went out to them. She was also really shocked. How is it that so many girls who are so young are having miscarriages, and then needing a D&C?
"I couldn't believe all these young girls were having miscarriages!" she said to me. "I just felt like, 'Oh, these poor girls!' "
When she confided her concerns to her husband (who'd served in the IDF), he said, "What are you thinking? How can you be so naive? These girls are here for abortions. They're soldiers and the army pays for their abortions."
That broke his wife's heart even more.
My husband mentioned several times that mixed-gender service fosters a camp-like atmosphere rather than a military atmosphere.
Upon passing checkpoints staffed by both female and male soldiers, I usually see them laughing together and far less observant of passing motorists than male-only checkpoints.
Many people have mentioned this same observation.
Likewise, it's not a coincidence that in terror attacks over the past couple of years at checkpoints, the victims have often been female soldiers.
This doesn't even begin to cover the dynamics of a superior office who hankers after a female under his command. (Remember, the girls serving under mandatory draft are ages 18-20.)
Rarely publicized, only the most disturbing scandals make the media, the most recent being the whoring of female Jewish soldiers in a prison for Arab terrorists.
The effect of the military on the female personality is also very negative.
I'm not saying no female manages to rebound from it, but some of the aggressive in-your-face behavior from some secular Israeli women developed and hardened during their service in the IDF, where this behavior was either idealized or she cultivated it as the best way to deal with the challenges of her service.
And then never found a reason to curb this behavior.
The Detriment of Females in Combat for Both Males & Females
I did not know if she was a religious woman confused about her true duties or, more happily, a formerly secular woman in the process of teshuvah.
But I felt so bad for Hashem, all these idealistic young women walking around the holiest area in the world in inappropriate clothing, with both genders engaging in inappropriate behavior.
Also, studies show that females in combat are REALLY bad for men.
In addition to the fact that, no matter how much a female lifts weights, female necks and lower torsos simply cannot equal the strength of male necks and lower torsos.
So a lot of the gear (including standard combat helmets) are either bad or intolerable for females.
Furthermore, males find it demoralizing to battle next to female combatants. Women's cries of pain or fear bother men more than the cries of men, and cause more PTSD.
They also don't feel as secure fighting next to a woman, which affects their morale.
Also, male combatants instinctively feel the need to protect their female co-combatants, leading to more male injury and death, plus less victory, as the males focus instinctively on protecting the females.
I realize the media has been publishing the opposite regarding the male and female combat that took place during the Gaza Invasion. And maybe in that case, the reporting is true and the males didn't feel demoralized at all and the female firepower only helped and never hindered.
But we cannot know for sure because even if the female participation hindered things, the media would never report that because it does not fit with their agenda.
Why the Big Push?
Remember, most female soldiers aren't doing anything essential (though they FEEL they absolutely are).
Only a minority achieve these essential positions and excel in them.
So yes, it's partly to cater to the time-old male taavos.
Also, normal males LIKE working with females.
Newsflash: Men enjoy spending time with women. They like to banter with them, they like the way women look, act, and smell.
That's all totally normal.
It's also why Jewish Law erected so many barriers to prevent the very normal impropriety that often results from freewheeling interactions.
So we seek to minimize such dynamics, while the army seeks to maximize these dynamics.
The amount of active service members available in Israel is paltry compared to almost everywhere else.
I'm not sure, but I think some of the push towards the female draft derives from a very real lack of manpower.
But that is an atheistic way of viewing the situation. It's still wrong and brings disaster rather than victory.
And even if you draft every single woman in Israel, it still won't be enough. There simply are not that many people here. Right now, it's a tiny country the size of New Jersey or Wales.
But certainly, there's a dark element within the military top brass and the government, which took over in 1948 via the Haganah leadership (NOT the mainstream members and fighters, but the actual leadership).
This elements seeks to destroy the Jewish people from within.
Remember, the Erev Rav are always looking back toward Mitzrayim and yearned for that society and those values:
the-kli-yakar-parshat-masei.html
An Interfaith Melting Pot
This means atheist Russians, Christian Russians, Christian Arabs, Muslim Arabs, Muslim Bedouins, Druze...
The Bedouins have their own unit of trackers, which does excellent work. Called the Gashashim, I believe it consists only of Bedouins and I think it's Bedouins all from the same clan. (They also displayed incredible bravery and sacrifice during the Horror from Gaza, saving Jewish lives.)
But the rest of it is mixed, despite being presented as a "Jewish army."
And if they're not religious, then even the right-wing pro-Judea-and-Samaria anti-2-state-solution hawkish types see the army as a melting pot for everyone to freely mix together.
It's bad enough the Jewish boys are in a melting pot in the army, but it's worse that the girls are too.
Know What to Think & Know How to Act
A lot of them remain in denial and for some, the information here doesn't fully apply to them.
It's unnecessarily offensive if you'd relate to them like they're lacking in morals or intelligence, because
1) Many are moral and intelligent.
2) Even the ones who aren't do not perceive themselves that way.
Especially with the high-ranking women who are actually doing well in a vital position, dismissive or disrespectful behavior is just offensive for no reason.
And again, especially the women serving in combat or guard or intelligence, they are full of idealism in their role. They feel they're helping Am Yisrael and preventing the Holocaust, etc.
So all the above is true, but you should be careful not to insult them and the like.
Yes, their very presence in the army is damaging to both the Nation and themselves.
But they honestly do not realize this. On the contrary, they feel the opposite.
But we should know and stand strong against giyus banot.
After all, based on what Torah Sages have said before, I'm concerned the barbaric attack on the base with the field observers happened in part because of its prominent role in encouraging the enlistment of females.