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[quote=Anonymous]The Republican running to replace George Santos is… wait for it… lying about her past accomplishments.

“Ms. Pilip has also faced questions about how she has described her military service.

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.
“As a gunsmith, she was not a paratrooper,” said Nachman Shai, a former Israeli military spokesman and Labor Party minister.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/nyregion/mazi-pilip-israel-suozzi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare[/quote]

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