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Thread #92618 Message #1778976
Posted By: CarolC
08-Jul-06 - 01:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
Subject: RE: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
No it isn't, GUEST. You are saying that the very women you pretend to care about (who are sometimes treated in that way, but hardly in every case), should be punished, kept in poverty and misery, and denied the same basic freedoms that you and I enjoy, just because some of the men in their midst are guilty of the things you describe.
The women who actually live there have said that, 1. They want Israel to leave the Palestinians alone to build their country, and 2. That the things Israel is doing to Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem are making it much more difficult for the women (and the men) of these areas to facilitate the kinds of changes that are needed to help eliminate the kinds of behaviors you have described. By supporting Israel's occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and its stranglehold on Gaza, you are helping to prolong Palestinian women's experience of the behaviors you mentioned.