onesiraat: Palestinians protest violence against women at the spot where a woman was allegedly murdered by her husband in the West Bank city of Bethlehem earlier that week, 1 August. (Issam Rimawi / APA images) Palestine should worry about violence against women when they find a solution to violence against the Palestinian population, IN GENERAL. I couldn’t disagree more. While sometimes conflict creates an impression of heightened agency for women, such issues are not a guarantor of social change and that does not invalidate the fact there are grievances and barriers affecting elements of a society, let alone mean that they should be brushed aside until things look up. This demonstration was in reaction to a murder within their own community. Statistics related to the conflict and social ills can be a sound commentary on the effects of the occupation, but that doesn’t mean that Palestinians cannot address such issues among their own nor do they have the luxury to ignore them because its apparently become a serious issue.  You cannot examine a conflict through such a narrow scope. Addressing a conflict and the violence it inflicts on a group requires full mobilization and that’s not exactly possible whenever such issues go unaddressed.  Also, assessing their efforts through a narrow scope really plays down a lot of the community efforts that countless organizations and individuals launch within the Palestinian territories to help one another out. It does no justice to their efforts to look at things that way.

onesiraat:

Palestinians protest violence against women at the spot where a woman was allegedly murdered by her husband in the West Bank city of Bethlehem earlier that week, 1 August.

(Issam Rimawi / APA images)

Palestine should worry about violence against women when they find a solution to violence against the Palestinian population, IN GENERAL.

I couldn’t disagree more.

While sometimes conflict creates an impression of heightened agency for women, such issues are not a guarantor of social change and that does not invalidate the fact there are grievances and barriers affecting elements of a society, let alone mean that they should be brushed aside until things look up.

This demonstration was in reaction to a murder within their own community. Statistics related to the conflict and social ills can be a sound commentary on the effects of the occupation, but that doesn’t mean that Palestinians cannot address such issues among their own nor do they have the luxury to ignore them because its apparently become a serious issue. 

You cannot examine a conflict through such a narrow scope. Addressing a conflict and the violence it inflicts on a group requires full mobilization and that’s not exactly possible whenever such issues go unaddressed. 

Also, assessing their efforts through a narrow scope really plays down a lot of the community efforts that countless organizations and individuals launch within the Palestinian territories to help one another out. It does no justice to their efforts to look at things that way.

(Source: roxygen)

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