{"id":16623,"date":"2011-03-08T23:21:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T20:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/?p=16623"},"modified":"2016-02-01T23:33:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T20:33:04","slug":"international-womens-day-march-8th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/international-womens-day-march-8th-2011","title":{"rendered":"International Women\u2019s Day \u2013 March 8th, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 8, 2011 | Focusing in on our veteran political activist and co-founder – Prof. Galia Golan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the militaristic nature of Israeli society, even peace movements invoke the military background and prowess of their members in order to gain legitimacy and credence for their positions, as we saw with PEACE NOW (the Officers\u2019 Letter), and more recently, the group Combattants for Peace.<\/p>\n

Yet, in fact, women form the backbone of almost all of Israel\u2019s peace groups and grass-roots efforts to end the occupation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the reasons is that women, no less than men, understand that the occupation and continued conflict threatens our lives and security no less than that of men, while, however, we have virtually no say in the fateful decisions on these matters.<\/p>\n

At the same time, often excluded from formal political power, women are accustomed to grass roots activity and inter-personal connections.<\/p>\n

Some would say we are therefore more sensitive to individual suffering (of those under occupation) and the human price of conflict.<\/p>\n

Feminism has focused us on power relations, in the public as well as the private sphere, and the hardships of oppression, whatever its origins.\u00a0 And certainly Israel\u2019s rule over the Palestinians can only be described as oppression.<\/p>\n

For us territory, power, (dubious) glory in battle have little meaning and certainly less importance than equality and freedom from pain and suffering \u2013 what today is internationally called \u201chuman security.\u201d\u00a0 And ultimately it is \u201csoft power\u201d \u2013 dealing with peoples\u2019 needs and aspirations,\u00a0 rather than weapons and war, that will ensure lasting \u201chuman security\u201d for all of us.<\/p>\n

In Israel and Palestine this can only come with peace\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof Golan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Read Prof Golan\u2019s article from JPOST \u2013 \u201cWhere has all this feminism got us?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\"large_galia_golan\"<\/p>\n

About Prof. Golan:<\/strong>
\nProfessor Galia Golan is the head of the M.A. program and the M.A. specialization in\u00a0 Diplomacy and Conflict Studies at theLauder School of Government,\u00a0 Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya,\u00a0 Israel.She is the author of nine books mainly on Soviet policy in the\u00a0 Middle East, as well as monographs and articles including work on the\u00a0 Arab-Israeli conflict.\u00a0 Her most recent works include a book, Israel and\u00a0 Palestine: Peace Plans and Proposals From Oslo to Disengagement.\u00a0 Golan\u00a0 was the recipient of the 2007 Israeli Political Science Association\u00a0 Award for Contribution to the Field, the 1995 New Israel Fund Award for Women in Leadership, and the 1999 Gleistsman Activist Award for long-time peace activism.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 8, 2011 | Focusing in on our veteran political activist and co-founder – Prof. Galia Golan \u201cGiven the militaristic nature of Israeli society, even peace movements invoke the military background and prowess of their members in order to gain legitimacy and credence for their positions, as we saw with PEACE NOW (the Officers\u2019 Letter),… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2330],"class_list":["post-16623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns","tag-galia-golan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16628,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16623\/revisions\/16628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}