Silvia Margia
Program director with women’s intercultural organizations
There are voices inside myself. Some can be very ugly. In the last war, I found myself angry with the Jewish people. Will they wake up and see that security is not about the army? Peace is about economic security, not about an army. I was shocked. How I am thinking this way? How did I give myself even permission to say these things? I want to heal myself of this voice of the wounds of the little Arab girl inside. Sometimes you need to meet the other side and say, “Help me to heal myself and I will offer my help for you to do the same.’’ [...]
Badia Khalaf
Chair of Annahda Women’s Association
The best thing in life is love. Without love we cannot live. As Christians, we want only peace. This is our Christianity. We can love each other, we can live with each other. It’s not hard for us to live with Jewish people, Israeli people. [...]
Khawla Dawoud Ahmad Alazraq
Director of Psycho-Social Counseling Women’s Center
The occupation puts immense pressure on women. The men used to earn incomes by working in Israel, now they cannot go to Israel. They are frustrated, cannot feed their kids, and do not feel like real fathers who can support their families. This expresses itself in violence against women and children. [...]
Ruth: Tuesday
On our way into the office, Patricia bumped into a friend who had heard her this morning on NPR’s Morning Edition, following the interview yesterday for « Tell Me More ». More interviews today: Voice of America TV and Pacifica Public Radio. Again the women got rave reviews.
At lunch time, we had [...]
Rula: Friday
Friday, My day off and Memo’s day off, I was thinking I will stay in bed until 9:00 am or even 10:00. . . but unfortunately Memo decided he would participate in the Open Day at his school and he needs to be at his school around 8 00 am, so I have to prepare [...]
Khuloud J. Khayyat Dajani
Professor and Chair of Al Quds Child Institute
The Palestinian nation has one of the highest fertility rates and a median age of 18. Large numbers of children need special care. It is obvious nobody looks out for them by the results in the streets of Gaza and the camps of Beirut and the West Bank. There’s little investment in refugee children by Palestinian leaders or Israelis, so they don’t know how to be proper citizens of the world. They suffer from a toxic environment—if you feel your country move towards civil war, it tells what kind of atmosphere the children live in. [...]
Anya Antopolski
Director of Meeting Point in Nokdim
I’ll tell you a story. About a year ago I was going through the checkpoint on my way home when I saw a very pretty Palestinian girl with a beautiful scarf covering her hair. She was standing next to the checkpoint holding a Palestinian flag and demonstrating against the security fence. I wanted to stand next to her holding an Israeli flag, because I’m also against the fence. If she’s against the fence, and I’m against the fence, then who is for it, really? That’s what I want to say. [...]
Rula: Thursday
My day started at 6:00 am, like every day, and everything went well and smooth today. Memo went to school at 7:30 and then I return back home to prepare breakfast for my parents and myself, and then hurry to AL-Ram to attend my second day of the workshop that Fakhira my friend and [...]
Rula: Wednesday
Today my day started at 6: 00 am with my son, Memo. I took him to school and then went directly to the Justvision office to prepare for our workshop. I can say it was a long day — I enjoyed every minute at the workshop and I enjoyed all the participants. It [...]
Rula Salameh: Monday
The first day of a busy week — as usual I wake up at 6:00 am, to prepare Memo for school, and then my day and my work starts. I went to Ramallah for two meetings and then ran to Jerusalem for another meeting and after that I called Elana Rozenman my sister and my [...]
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