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Israeli and Palestinian Women in Dialogue. INTERVIEW QUESTIONS *1. What is your organizational structure? * 2. What specific projects are you engaged.

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1 Israeli and Palestinian Women in Dialogue

2 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?

3 *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?

4 * 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?

5 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?

6 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?

7 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?

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9 Dome of the Rock from Mount of Olives with Jewish tombs in foreground

10 Damascus Gate, East Jerusalem

11 Older Palestinian women vendors selling vegetables

12 Beit Safafa Beit Safafa, Arab village absorbed by Jerusalem

13 Fatma

14 Fatma, nephew, & daughter

15 Gilo

16 Anti- Settlement Poster

17 Israeli settlements in the West Bank

18 Ford vans to A Ram checkpoint

19 Ambulance waiting at checkpoint

20 Line of Traffic at A Ram

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

23 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

24 Anti-Violence Poster

25 Solidarity poster

26 David & Goliath poster

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28 Amneh Badran, Muslim Executive Director, JCW

29 Odette, Christian social worker from Jerusalem

30 Samira, Muslim office manager from Ramallah

31 Barbara Agostini, American Jew living in Italy

32 Banner from Italian Peace March

33 Jan by Donor Plaque

34 Jan & Odette eating falafel

35 Mosque Shu’fat Refugee Camp

36 Psychologist & Children

37 Community Center at Shu’fat

38 Bulletin Board

39 Odette & Psychologist

40 Literacy lesson

41 Israelis Prohibit Garbage Disposal

42 Walking around checkpoint

43 Jordan River

44 Water sources in the West Bank

45 Much land is off limits

46 Olive tree, Palestinian symbol and livelihood

47 Arabic word for Peace

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49 Bat Shalom demonstration in West Jerusalem

50 Opposing 35 Years of Occupation

51 For the TV cameras

52 Sign familiar to US feminists

53 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.

54 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

55 The Fence (red line) swallows more Palestinian land

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57 University of Tel Aviv

58 Ruth Marion and daughter Ronit Kadishay

59 NEW PROFILE MOVEMENT for the Civil-ization of Israeli Society

60 Talila, Dyana, Jan, & Ronit

61 Ruthi Hiller and son in home at Kibbutz Haogen

62 Planning the Women Refuse Tent

63 Tel Aviv waterfront & Jaffa

64 Women Refuse Tent

65 Opening Night: Study Circles

66 How Israeli militarism personally hurts

67 Arab women also came to the tent

68 Razia Meron and daughter

69 Rela Mazali, writer

70 10 AM to 10 PM each day

71 Buttons: Women Refuse … War Silence Violence Occupation Abuse Oppression

72 Selling Women Refuse buttons

73 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.

74 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.

75 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.

76 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.

77 "...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

78 Israeli High Court

79 Annalien & Ruth : The Army Jails the Conscience

80 Supporters from Yesh Gvul

81 Hearing for Lt. David Sonnenschein

82 Parents of Lt. Sonnenschein

83 Meeting with family, girlfriend

84 Supporters demonstrate outside court

85 Parents, Ruth, and Pnina

86 Transfer Now!

87 Women in Black

88 Tel Aviv

89 The hand, a symbol of unity for both Jewish and Arab women

90 Yeshiva students engage in dialogue

91 Stop the Occupation!

92 Transporting signs

93 Symbols of Israel?

94 Hebrew word for Peace

95 Powerpoint Presentation Prepared by Janet M. Powers Associate Professor Interdiciplinary Studies & Women’s Studies Gettysburg College 2002


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