Israeli president

The biggest headline-grabbing opportunity for sexual harassment industry is unfolding...

I do not know if ever the head of state was accused of sexual harassment (except Clinton for whom the industry made miraculous about-face and went for all-out defense for him).

The bigger the fish, the bigger the publicity effect for your agenda. Charge against one low or middle ranking military officer wouldn`t get any media attention and simply become part of statistics, a charge against the head of states, however ceremonious the post may be in Israel, is a slum dunk for the sexual harassment industry.

In addition to the publicity effect, it could lend voice to somewhat self-serving argument made in some quarters of feminist groups that those high level post should be filled by a woman, not a man, because; a woman in high position, almost by definition if you take the industry`s version of it, is immune from such vague yet devastating charges.

And as Israel has been following the example of the United States who opted to go for a “kindler, gentler military” with more positions close to combat opening up for women and more gender-norming in training and operation being made mandatory, no wonder the Israel military had difficulty defeating Hizbollah? With the overwhelming dominance of its military might over any other nation in the world, the United States can placate the gender feminsts by going “kindler, gentler military” to some extent without much real disadvantage, Israel, who is surrounded by hostile nations with large standing armies and whose margins of military superiority to others is nowhere close to that the United States enjoys, doing the same could prove devastating for them.