Our Sisters' Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence

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Index Aachen Peace Prize, 216 Abbas, Mahmud, 213 Aboulaphia, Yosi, 128 Abu-Amr, Ziad, 84, 100, 101 Abu-Lughod, Lila, 244n.8 Agudat Yisrael, 40 Al Hamishmar, 31, 32, 72, 73,80, 159 Alberstein, Chava, 43, 48-49, 90 Aloni, Shulamit, 43, 98, 122-23, 126,131,141,202 Alternative Directory, 4,5 Anderson, Benedict, 50-53, 55, 59, 70,90,95,104,185 Athropology, 211-12, 244n.8 Antonovski, Aaron, 155 Appadurai, Arjun, 45,110,113, 211-12 Arafat, Yassir, 175, 191, 197,213, 225, 243n.2, 246n.l Arendt, Hannah, 53 Aronoff, Myron, 125, 243n.13 Ashkenazim: definition of, 16; relationship with mizrahim, 128, 131-70,222,224,235,238, 252nn. 5-8; religious, 124; vigils and,20-23 Ashrawi, Hannan, 43-44, 46-47, 56,59,95 Aviad, Janet, 108 Avineri, Shlomo, 241n.5 Azaryahu, Sarah, 34, 245n.ll Baldwin, James, 237-39 Baram, Haim, 77 Bar Meir, Oded, 28 Barnea, Amalia Argaman, 128 Barnea, Nahum, 243n.2 Bar Yosef, Rivka, 251n.2 Bat Adam, 40 Beauvoir, Simone de, 242n.12 Beer Sheva, 252n.7 Begin, Menachem, 162, 178, 206 Behar, Ruth, 253-54n.3 Bein, Alex, 247n.4 Beit Shemesh (development town), 136,139,145,147,152,162-63 Ben David, Joseph, 144-45 Ben Eliezer, Uri, 36 Ben Gurion, David, 9, 59, 142, 241n.4 Benziman, Uzi, 13 Bialkin, Kenneth J., 215, 223 Block of the Faithful. See Gush Emunim Bnei Akiva, 106 Borders: mechitza and, 116, 118; nation-ness and, 49-50, 59; national, 90-92, 141, 205, 218; 1967 and, 43-45, 47; social/political , 13,60,165,167,208,211, 212, 214, 223; vigils challenge, 25, 26, 28, 30, 38, 39,40. See also Green Line Boshes, Hedda, 160, 170 Bowes, A. M., 35 Breckenridge, Carol A., 45 Bridge for Peace, 183 Brit Shalom (Covenant of Peace), 57 Brussels, 140. See also Women's peace conference, Brussels Buber, Martin, 56-57, 70, 71, 206, 247n.3 267 268 Index Buck-Morss, Susan, 231, 232 Bush, George, 211 BuUernweck, Annelise, 216 Challenge, 179, 204-5, 246n.16, 248n.9 Citizen's Right Movement, 252n.8 Citizenship: Israeli identity and, 137; Israeli-Palestinian, 8-9, 58-59,63-65,68,71,76,78,79, 172,192; occupation and, 48; political, 11, 22-29, 32-37, 40-41,61,74,182; transfer and, 80-82 Clinton, Bill, 213, 225 Coexistence: exposed as mere talk, 207-8; fundamentalists oppose, 84; linked to justice, 202-5, 208-9; Palestinian voice for, 87-89; Promised Land of, 224-26; public events affirm, 89; state poliey of, after turnabout, 171-89; women peace activists advocate, 1-3,90-92. See also Nation-ness; Two states for two nations Cohen, Ruth, 202 Cohen, Stan, 202 Collective: gendered, 160, 183, 186, 208, 220; importance in Israeli society, 10-14, 178-79, 223, 229; Israeli Palestinian identity and, 59, 107; mizrahim as, 133-35, 138-39, 144-47, 158, 165, 169; nature of, 117, 131; vigils and, 25-30, 33-38; religious women for peace as, 97-98, 112. See also Emotions, collective Colonialism, 52-53 Congress, U.S. (104th), 226-27 Consensus: national, 3, 20, 22-25, 48,188,227,234; collectives and, 13; gendered, 37 Coole, Diana H., 245n.9 Counter-demonstrations, 19, 21-32. See also Citizenship; Emotions, collective; Right; Violence Covenant of Peace. See Brit Shalom Dayan, Yael, 43,174-75,179,222, 223 Dai Lakibush. See End the Occupation Declaration of Independence, Israeli, 35, 58 Denial: of differences, 234; of discrimination against mizrahim, 134-36,159,165,235;ofthe occupation, 181-82; of Palestinian nation-ness, 43, 107 Deportation: exile and, 186, 192-96; exposes government peace position as mere talk, 186-88, 207-8; Knesset and, 188, 199-201; Meretz Party and, 188, 199-200; Occupied Territories and, 195-96; Right and, 187, 188; threatens solidarity of women peace activists, 193,219; turnabout and, 186-89; violates human rights, 198; women peace activists protest, 186-89, 198-202 Derrida, Jacques, 231-32 Deutsch, Yvonne, 191, 220 Development towns: mizrahim and, 151-53, 158, 160, 162 Discrimination: against Israeli Palestinians 8, 39, 64, 78, 89; against women, 15, 35, 39; against mizrahim, 41, 133, 134-38, 143-44,157-58,164,167-69, 235,240; women's peace activism exposes, 229; language and, 138, 147; public events and, 232. See also Racism; Equality; Justice Dominguez, Virginia R., 50, 52, 142, 241n.l,252n.4 Dotan...