Broken Promises, Broken Dreams

Alice Rothchild

Description

The tragedies of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are never far from the pages of the mainstream press. Yet it is rare to hear about the reality of life on the ground -- and it is rarer still when these voices belong to women.



This book records the journey of a Jewish American physician travelling and working within Israel and the Occupied Territories. Alice Rothchild grew up in a family grounded by the traumas of the Holocaust and passionately devoted to Israel. This book recounts her experiences as she grapples with the reality of life in Israel and the hardships of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.



The new edition includes a new preface, two chapters on Israeli dissent and a chapter which explores the impact of a Palestinian home demolition and the work of Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters who have joined together to form Combatants for Peace.



Ultimately, the book raises troubling questions regarding US policy and the mainstream Jewish community's insistence on giving unquestioning support to all Israeli policy.
Preface to Second Edition

Preface to First Edition

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Map

Part One

Jewish Voices from Israel and the Diaspora

1. My Own Story: Family Secrets

2. Dr. Ruchama Marton: An Allergy to Lies

3. Professor Daniel Bar-Tal: Danny! Think About It!

4. Angela Godfrey-Goldstein: Avodah Kodesh

Part Two

Palestinian Trauma, Resilience and Resistance

5. Checkpoints: Crossing the Line

6. Visiting the Mythaloon Maternity Home: Like Women

Everywhere

7. A Day in Nablus with Dr. Allam Jarrar: We Will Have

Just Fun!

8. Restrictions on Access to Health Care: We Are Not

Animals

9. A Visit to Gaza: Working in a War Zone

10. Visiting Rafah: Just the Bad Face

11. Military Occupation: Samoud and Sorrow

Part Three

The Implications of Knowing : Complicity and Dissent

12. Finding the Voice for a Just Peace: Seeing the Human Face

Glossary

Brief Time Line

Notes

References and Websites

Index

Sujets

• Political Science
• Peace
• Palestine

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 02 février 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783714148
• Langue: English

Extrait

Broken Promises, Broken Dreams

About the Author

Alice Rothchild graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1970 and began her study of the complex relationships between medicine, social justice, and politics while attending Boston University School of Medicine. She contributed to the first edition ofOur Bodies, Our Selves, joined women’s consciousness raising activities, and began a lifelong commitment working for health care reform. In 1973 she traveled to China, focusing on understanding the health care system, its relationship to political and social environments, and the role of Eastern medicine. Alice did a medical internship at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx of New York City, working with community organizations in a unique effort to address the long-standing poverty and neglect in these devastated neighborhoods. She then did an obstetrics and gynecology residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, again turning her attention to women’s issues, focusing on efforts to educate and empower women and their families. She became Medical Director of the Women’s Community Health Center in Cambridge, Mass., from 1977 to 1979. After completing her residency, she co-founded Urban Woman and Child Health, Inc. in Jamaica Plain, Mass., serving a unique mix of urban poor to middle- class families from 1979 to 1988. She joined the staff of Beth Israel Hospital, now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 1988 she became a member of the staff of Harvard Community Health Plan, which subsequently became Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. Presently, she is also an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. In 2001, she received the Best of Boston’s Women Doctors Award fromBoston Magazine and that same year she traveled to Eritrea where she reviewed a health project for Grassroots International and assisted her daughter in developing a Girl Empowerment Workshop. In 1997, through her involvement in the Boston Workmen’s Circle, Alice turned much of her non- medical focus to understanding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and its relationship to US foreign policy and American Jewry. She co-founded and co-chairs American Jews for a Just Peace, Boston, and co- organized the Health and Human Rights Project. She has co-developed six health and human rights delegations to Israel and the Occupied Territories and traveled annually to the region from 2004 to 2010. She has written and lectured extensively on issues related to women’s health care and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. In 1998 Alice was named one of ten Jewish Women to Watch by Jewish Women International. In 2004, Alice received a Community Service Award from Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity and Community Partnership and in 2006 Alice was named inFeminists Who Changed America: 1963–1975, edited by Barbara Love. The first edition ofBroken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resiliencepublished by Pluto was Press in April 2007. Please see websitewww.brokenpromisesbrokendreams.comfor further information. All book royalties will be donated to American Jews for a Just Peace, Boston.