Israeli and Palestinian Women in Dialogue

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

 

*1. What is your organizational structure?  * 2. What specific projects are you engaged in? * 3. Does your organizations include women of all

economic classes and educational backgrounds?

 

*4. What peace projects are you engaged ina. with your own population?

b. across cultural and religious borders?

 * 5. What are the primary obstacles to working

with women from the other side? * 6. Do you feel marginalized by your own society

as a result of your solidarity work with women from the other side?  

* 7. Does your solidarity work put you in danger? * 8. What has been the impact of the Israeli incursion on the women of your organization and their families? * 9. How did your organization respond to these events? *10. What is the difference between women's response to the first Intifada and the Al-Aqsa Intifada? 

11. How do women typically network with each other? 12. What happens to these networks in times of

crisis?  13. Do you see any role for women in establishing a break-through in higher-level peace negotiations?  14. How do you think violence impacts women and children on the other side?

15. What sort of peaceful vision do you hold for the future?

16. What is the best approach to gaining more visibility for women's peacemaking efforts? 17. What public relations efforts do you make on

behalf of your organization? 18. What happened to Women and Peace umbrella

organization? 

19. Which is more important: solidarity with wwomen or solidarity with your culture?

 20. How is your organization viewed by male

leaders in your culture?

Dome of the Rock from Mount of Olives with

Jewish tombs in foreground

Damascus Gate, East Jerusalem Damascus Gate, East Jerusalem

Older Palestinianwomen vendors selling vegetables

Beit Safafa

Beit Safafa, Arab village absorbed by Jerusalem

Fatma

Fatma, nephew, & daughter

Gilo

Anti-Settlement

Poster

Israeli settlements in the West

Bank

Ford vans to A Ram checkpoint

Ambulance waiting at checkpoint

Line of Traffic at A Ram

Maya Shamas

Executive Director, Women’s Center for Legal Aid & Counseling

Palestinian Women operate within five different discourses:

1. Humanitarian law discourse2. Nationalist discourse3. Traditional gender roles4. Islamist discourse5. Women’s human rights and development

rights discourse

Anti-Violence Poster

Solidarity poster

David &

Goliath poster

Amneh Badran, Muslim Executive Director, JCW

Odette, Christian

social worker from

Jerusalem

Samira, Muslim office manager from Ramallah

Barbara Agostini, American Jew living in Italy

Banner from

Italian Peace March

Jan by Donor Plaque

Jan & Odette eating falafel

Mosque

Shu’fat Refugee Camp

Psychologist & Children

Community Center at Shu’fat

Bulletin Board

Odette & Psychologist

Literacy lesson

Israelis Prohibit Garbage Disposal

Walking around checkpoint

Jordan River

Water sources in the West

Bank

Much land is off limits

Olive tree, Palestinian symbol and livelihood

Arabic word for Peace

Bat Shalom demonstration in West Jerusalem

Opposing 35 Years of Occupation

For the TV cameras

Sign familiar to US

feminists

Bat Shalom is currently conducting a campaign urging women to boycott products made in the Israeli settlements:

wine, biscuits, hummus, ready-made salads, baked goods, mineral water, and many other items.

The Evil Fence:

 A Ghetto for the Palestinians, A Disaster for the Israelis

There is no substitute for the Green Line

as a border of peace between Israel and Palestine.

As long as the occupation continueswithout peace or borders, no wall

will help.A border of peace will do away with

the need for a wall.Bat Shalom – Gush Shalom – Coalition of Women for a

Just Peace http://www.batshalom.org  

The Fence (red line) swallows

more Palestinian

land

University of Tel AvivUniversity of Tel Aviv

Ruth Marion and

daughter Ronit

Kadishay

NEW PROFILE MOVEMENT

for the Civil-ization of Israeli Society

Talila, Dyana, Jan, & Ronit

Ruthi Hiller and son in home at Kibbutz Haogen

Planning the Women Refuse Tent

Tel Aviv waterfront & Jaffa

Women Refuse Tent

Opening Night: Study Circles

How Israeli militarism personally hurts

Arab women

also came to the tent

Razia Meron

and daughter

Rela Mazali, writer

10 AM to 10 PM each day

Buttons: Women

Refuse … War

Silence Violence

Occupation Abuse

Oppression

Selling Women Refuse buttons

WOMEN REFUSE

We, Israeli women - Jewish and Palestinian - oppose the

occupation of the Palestinian people and

refuse to take part in any of its destructive aspects.

What Women Refuse

•We refuse to live as enemies.

•We refuse to fulfill the roles that women are expected to fulfill during wartime.

•We refuse to pay the economic and social price of the Occupation.

Also

•We refuse to be ignorant and to succumb to terrorizing and silencing.

•We refuse to raise children to war, poverty and oppression.

•We refuse to remain silent.

We believe

•A collective refusal of women can

change reality. A feminine refusal means an alternative voice and a language opposed to the language of power.

"...When the women of Israel and the women of Palestine get together and demand

peace, and demand an end to violence, then we will have a

political solution.…"  

New Profile web pagehttp://www.newprofile.org

Israeli High Court

Annalien & Ruth : The Army Jails the Conscience

Supporters from Yesh Gvul

Hearing for Lt. David Sonnenschein

Parents of Lt. Sonnenschein

Meeting with family, girlfriend

Supporters demonstrate outside court

Parents, Ruth, and Pnina

Transfer Now!

Women in Black

Tel Aviv

The hand, a symbol of unity for both Jewish

and Arab women

Yeshiva students engage in dialogue

Stop the Occupation!

Transporting signs

Symbols of Israel?

Hebrew word for Peace

Powerpoint Presentation Prepared by

Janet M. Powers

Associate Professor Interdiciplinary Studies & Women’s Studies

Gettysburg College

2002