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 in
a. 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 w
women 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
Palestinian
women
vendors
selling
vegetables
Beit Safafa
Beit Safafa, Arab village absorbed by Jerusalem
Fatma
Fatma, nephew, & daughter
Gilo
AntiSettlement
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 discourse
2. Nationalist discourse
3. Traditional gender roles
4. Islamist discourse
5. 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 continues
without 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
Tel Aviv
University
of Telof
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 page
http://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