God in heaven, I don’t know where I am right now. Every time I think I’ve gained some equilibrium, a new shock happens. And one thing pushes another thing to the side.
Yesterday night, after being on Twitter and Telegram and Instagram and I don’t know what else for a most of the last nine days, I called it a night. But, like the addict I am, I logged on this morning, and saw this from a sympathetic Irishman who tweets under the handle Graham DePenros:
Ah, the butt-kicking babe! Israel and its stupider supporters specialize in this. I thought Mr. dePenros was more intelligent than that. Variations of this abound on every pro-Israel site. Like a fetish, or a kink, they’re always the same: pulchritude stuffed into olive drab holding a sexy sexy weapon, or prancing around, as in the above.
Look. I appreciate support, especially from Ireland, which appears to have gone from good old Catholic Jew-hate to modern leftist Israel-hate in a single leap.1
But this is shit. Not harmless shit. Complete mind-rotting shit.
I will be blunt: Women can play a useful restricted role in a military but they should be nowhere near combat. An adult female body is not fit for combat. The two strongest and greatest female tennis players who have ever lived, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams, are adamant about the vast physical differences between men and women which advantage men over women axiomatically, necessitating the segregation of the sexes in sport.
Martina is leading a crusade against men—I don’t call them biological men, they are simply men—in women’s sports. Serena went on television and said that Andy Murray, the then-number one male player in the world, would beat her in three sets quickly. Martina and Serena can be honest about this because they have nothing to prove.2
And that’s just a sport. What the fuck do you think happens in wartime? Read on. It was captured on GoPro.
The crankily brilliant Israeli military historian, Martin Van Creveld, has written a lot about the feminist rot in the IDF. This is his blog. He’s too stunned to write about the recent events. When Martin Van Creveld is mute, things must be really bad.
Here are the blog entries tagged “feminism.” Trigger warning: he’s brutal. 3
But first, read this:
Military Women Are Not the Cure, They Are the Disease
For about twenty years now, I have been warning whoever would and would not listen about the dangers of feminizing the military. Now, in my own country, the chicks—no pun intended—are coming home to roost.
I could screenshot more entries but just READ THE WHOLE THING HERE’S THE LINK AGAIN.
Which brings me back to Mr. dePenros. I know what he was doing: trying to give us a shot in the arm at a bad moment.
Sorry buddy, but using cringey epithets at a moment like this doesn’t help and goat-fucker is the worst. Hamas pulled off a sophisticated operation right under Israel’s nose. They prepped and executed. Scum and bastards they may be, but goatfuckers they are not.
And the dancing girls as in, “One of our female soldiers can whip ten of your pathetic curs.” I’ve seen this since 1967.
Stop it, just stop.
Undisciplined and savage as they were, one Hamas terrorist would have slaughtered all of the butt-kicking babes in the video. He would have smashed their heads, stabbed them, and gouged out their eyes, maybe stuck gun butts up their vaginas.
Don’t put women in the line of fire.
Rukhsana, who tweets as Bad Hijabi, obtained videos from Telegram of the slaughter at a military base. Go to her account, I can’t figure out right now how to download and embed videos.
The soldiers female conscripts cowered under a table before they were slaughtered.
This is what happens in real life, in a real war.
Rukhsana calls it a war crime. It is. In a just war you give the other side the option of surrendering and in any case, these soldiers girls were cowering under a table.
I say, “So what? Putting girls on that base is like emulating the guy who went to live with grizzly bears and ended up in their stomachs.”
Don’t put women in the line of fire.
The Israelis are trying to turn some chick in uniform into a heroine. I think her name is Yael. I won’t link to it, I can’t, I just can’t. I am absolutely positive that this is bullshit for foreign consumption and that most Israelis are cynical about it. Yael may have had an encounter with terrorists and, being armed properly4, engaged them and come out the winner and good for her, but depending on such incidents is not a realistic military strategy.
Don’t put women in the line of fire.
Van Creveld wrote the above article in 2016. Undoubtedly things have only gotten worse in “Start-Up Nation” because when rot sets in it’s exponential. Seven years in a military is a year in a dog’s life. A guy who was 16 in 2016 is 23 now, prime age for combat. They don’t want to fight. And why should they have to? They’ve got butt-kicking babes to do it.
I’m sick and tired and this is all I have to say right now. Tomorrow, or later, I’ll deal with this:
A guy with 309 followers on Twitter with a dirty, satirical handle is asking the only real question that should be asked now.
Looking at his account, he thinks that this attack was literally enabled by Netanyahu. I’ll deal with that tomorrow. I don’t agree with that interpretation. But isn’t the question reasonable? Doesn’t it deserve to be answered?
Meanwhile -
Don’t put women in the line of fire.
If this doesn’t cause Israelis to look deep within and clean out the rot (and yes, I realize that there’s all kinds of rot, not just feminist rot), they’re doomed.
Neutral Ireland was the only non-Axis country to have sent condolences to Germany on the death of Herr Hitler. Twice.
John McEnroe said Serena couldn’t beat the number 700 man. I think she might, but she couldn’t beat the number 600 man. It’s a sterile argument in any case.
And this: Pussycats, about the rot in all Western militaries.
Every Israeli adult within 10 kms of the Gaza border should have been armed with an assault rifle.
I’m in the military, and while women have contributed a lot to our shared defense, I hope the Israelis are smart enough to keep women out of the inevitable Gaza invasion. While it’s true that modern weapons have reduced the combat dimorphism between the sexes, the “move” part of “shoot, move and communicate” is a major hurdle for women that training cannot overcome. They just don’t move as well, especially not with a combat load. Plus men have a natural instinct to protect women and that creates distractions that combat units can’t afford.
The Rilke poem alone would have made me love Martin Van Creveld. Now I must read all his stuff - thank you for introducing him to me
The Irish are the most vile anti Semites in Europe by far. I hope Yeats wasn't because he's in my top 3 for English language poetry. The other two were notorious Jew haters: Ezra Pound and TS Elliot. Oy!
Like some others, I am too stunned to write at length. But the time will come and I'll write a good piece for my Stack
In the meantime, I'm glued to my Israeli TV channel - fortunately, my Hebrew is still good, though I left Israel in 1977
Thank you for writing your recent pieces