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Amid today's locker room chat I was happy to see John Tabin remind everyone that Israel has universal conscription -- the necessity of survival leaves it no choice. What's also worth noting is that women in the IDF are not allowed to serve in front-line combat roles, and there has been no feminist effort to acquire such equality. The flirtatiousness of the young women in the IDF photos couldn't be further from any Lara Croft nonsense -- there's nothing "kick ass" in the service they provide their country, Jim, nor anything appalling or morbid. Those two categories pertain only to the situation Israel finds itself in, having to conscript all its able-bodied youth because its neighbors would prefer to drown every last Israeli in the Mediterranean Sea.

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