soldiers took me in handcuffs to a hospital. the doctors there told the soldier to remove the cuffs in the hospital. i was no more or less than a patient he needed to heal. when the doctor examined me, he found that i was pregnant. thanks to him, he asked them to release me immediately. and i go down next day. the doctor is the kind of person i have met often in the conflict. israeli and palestinians connecting sorry. the kind of person i have met often in the conflict, israeli and palestinians, connecting with one another as human beings. living next to one another in peace, two peoples, two states. of course, in conflict, not every conflict is easy. but i remember the day i finally newspaper without no doubts that the only way forward was through this with one anecdote, as individuals and up through the difficult force s it was in may, 2003, and i had been invited [ inaudible ] the man behind the plo s participation in the madrid peace conference of 1991. again, i was p
hear from you. if i could if i can simply put questions out and these really are for conversation and discussion and then we will then open this time for q & a as we always do. so i have a first question that is always on my mind, but it s always on the minds of people with whom we speak, and that is when you think about when you think about the context in which you all are working, it seems to me that the laws, the traditions, the cultures that you are that you are living with are really, i want to say at times oppressive. they re very limiting. people say, well, you know, swanee, you have to be culturally sensitive. you shouldn t be trying to get women to do things that are illegal or whatever. and so can you can someone speak to that whole issue of culture and how that affects or laws, how that affects your work? you know, women oppression can take difference forms and law can be one of them. in a situation like sudan, for example, as you all know that sha rea