•Are you a woman who is interested in working for international justice?
•Are you willing to accompany farmers while they harvest their olives in the fall?
•Do you want to support Palestinian non-violent resistance?
•Are you able to spend two weeks to three months in the rural West Bank?
International Women's Peace Service
The International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS) is a team of international women based in Haris, a village in the Salfit governorate of the West Bank, which provides accompaniment to Palestinian civilians, documents and non-violently intervenes in human rights abuses, supports acts of non-violent resistance to end the military occupation of the Palestinian Territories – particularly Palestinian women’s resistance – and opposes the Wall.
Our project is run entirely by long-term and short-term volunteers. We are currently seeking new volunteers who ideally have experience in Palestine and/or with non-violent direct action and political activism in their home countries, as well as some competence in Arabic. Computer and technical skills are also useful. Volunteers are welcome to apply from their home countries or from within Palestine.
The role of IWPS volunteers includes:
•Living and working in a village alongside the Palestinian people, gaining a first-hand understanding of their problems;
•Observing and providing written and photographic documentation of human-rights abuses, both for use of the project and for use in your home country following your term in the house;
•Accompanying farmers to their fields, especially during the olive harvest;
•Responding to emergency calls requiring mediation, intervention or care, in coordination with the house team;
•Providing non-violent intervention in human-rights abuses;
•Engaging in acts of non-violent civil resistance alongside Palestinians, in coordination with the house team;
•Assisting in the development of village profiles in Salfit in order to document the long-term effects of the military occupation;
•Communicating with independent media and international press.
Want to find out more?
You can find out more about IWPS and what we do by viewing our website at www.iwps.info, where you may also download our volunteer information kit.
Contact us by email at: iwps@palnet.com.
1 comment:
There STILL is no such place as "Palestine".
And there never will be.
The Philistines would have had a state in 1937 with the Peel Plan, but they violently rejected it.
They would have had a state in 1948 with UN 181, but they violently rejected it (and actually claimed that the UN had no such mandate!).
They could have had a state in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza from 1948-1967 without any Jews- because the Arabs had ethnically cleansed every last one; but they violently rejected it. In fact, that's exactly when they established Fatah (1959) and thre PLO (1964).
They could have had a state after 1967, but instead, the entire Arab world issued the Khartoum Resolutions:
A. No peace with Israel
B. No recognition of Israel
C. No negotiations with Israel
They would have had a state in 2000 with the Oslo Accords, but they violently rejected it- as always.
The Arabs will just have to learn to "make do" with their own 99.9% of the Middle East- including all of the oil, and stop trying to steal OUR tiny 1/10th of 1% without oil. The Philistines won't have a state here in Israel, and if they don't stop their violence, they won't even exist here anymore. They will have to go to their own land; Jordan.
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