Israeli Politics Herzog, Hanna. "A Term Paper

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They suffer considerable social, educational, and economic discrimination. But Arab women are often granted new access to education, by compulsion of the Israeli state, and women work to enable their families to survive, even if fathers and husbands tried to retain patriarchal control over female lives. This is why issues of female empowerment as well as nationalism were are critical parts of some peace group's missions. Herzog suggests that the militaristic Israeli discourse privileged male as well as Jewish voices. However, the more spontaneous peace organizations generated by specific events during the struggle enabled women to enter, exercise authority, and set the terms of peace discourse in ways they were unable to before, and in marked contrast to other women in the Middle East. Middle Eastern nations with more formalized government structures often inhibited...

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Palestinian Israeli women have gained new social voices because of their Israeli-funded education and the destabilization of the traditional gendered social structures of their community, even while they raise their voices against the Israeli state in support of a Palestinian nation with their fellow male Palestinians. The women themselves disagree amongst one another as to the best road to peace. However, all of the women seem to agree with what one peace activist eloquently expressed: "Without equality there is no peace."

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