Although a female sniper took out one of the terrorists, another female probably hid & there were real fears that she'd been kidnapped
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=286182Although women make good snipers from a distance, witness the Soviet women snipers in WW2 who racked up a goodly number of dead Germans, doubts have long been expressed about the ability of women to engage in close quarter combat.
Despite her Krav Maga fancy footwork, this American-Israeli IDF soldier would make absolutely
no impression in a fight vs pigmented Central Station muggers Leroy and Winston!
Let alone against Hamas terrorists hell-bent on kidnapping her.
If the Israeli public suffered 4 years of breast-beating and practically cut their own wrists and gave up 1000 terrorists in exchange for Gilad Shalit, then to gain the release of one single kidnapped Israeli girl soldier, especially a pretty one, the State of Israel would practically surrender itself in toto to the Arabs!
The capitulative weakness of Israel for kidnap victims may yet prove to be its fatal undoing.