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Gendering The Israel-Palestinian Conflict Essay

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Gendering the Palestinian-Israel Conflict
The Israel-Palestinian Conflict has become one of the most enduring tragedies of the Middle East. With a casualty number up to millions including women and children, the conflict has been a focal point of endless debates and critique.
This essay is a personal analysis of the conflict from a gender perspective. Given a limited space, it focuses on two particular events that marked the start and development of the conflict towards violence. One was the adoption of the idea of a Jewish nation in the 1890s and the other was the first influx of Jewish immigrants to Palestine in the 1920s.
The analysis is written under the light of gender studies. It adopts a viewpoint that gender studies do not concern …show more content…

Though the essay was limited at the two events, the analysis, however, can be applied throughout the conflict because of the fact that the justification for violence used by the two parties has remained fundamentally identical. Most of the time one party attacks because of “self- protection” and “self-defence”; and the narrative has always been evolved around “we” versus “them”, and “ours” versus “theirs”. The characteristics of “militarising”, “racialising”, “protecting”, and “self-defending” has long been associated with masculinity; as a result, they are vindicated because of the socially constructed role of masculinity which is being superior and powerful. This gives way to an endless cycle of violence.
By demonstrating the Israel-Palestinian conflict from a gender perspective, the essay hopes to illustrate how a gender-biased culture that we are living in has been feeding and fuelling violence and conflict around the world. In other words, the socially perceived superiority of masculinity has turned green lights for us to achieve a common understanding through arms and weapons. Perhaps, we should start building peace by building a society in which being feminine is as admirable as being

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