Would-Be Santos Replacement Isn’t A “Paratrooper”

February 4, 2024 Politics, Republicans

The New York Times reports:

On official biographies on Instagram and X, she calls herself a “former IDF paratrooper,” invoking one of the Israeli military’s most vaunted combat roles. But, as Ms. Pilip herself has acknowledged, she was an armorer maintaining weapons in the paratrooper’s brigade, not a paratrooper or trained parachutist. She did not face combat.

Ms. Pilip’s campaign declined to make her available for an interview. Michael Deery, a Nassau County Republican official, dismissed the distinction as “form over substance,” and argued that the term “paratrooper” was widely used in Israel.

But former Israeli military leaders and scholars who study women in the armed forces said that Ms. Pilip’s use was neither common nor accurate. The Hebrew word for paratrooper, they noted, does not have a feminine form.

Read the full article. As you can see below, Trump’s de facto Twitter spokesfreak Laura Loomer is attacking Pilip as an “African migrant.”



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