{"id":12860,"date":"2024-04-21T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/?p=12860"},"modified":"2024-04-25T15:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:53:40","slug":"a-response-to-an-opinion-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/a-response-to-an-opinion-in-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The only real cure for the anxiety incurred by War is Peace : a response to an opinion in the New York Times by Jo Even-Caspi \/ 29.2.24"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12860\" class=\"elementor elementor-12860\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5135a09 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5135a09\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-20db564\" data-id=\"20db564\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb9596a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fb9596a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 26-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A response to an opinion paper in the NY Times<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/22\/opinion\/gaza-palestinians-mental-health.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/22\/opinion\/gaza-palestinians-mental-health.html<\/span><\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Yara,<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am an Israeli child psychologist.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently retired from my private practice, as the War broke out, I considered returning to it, but felt that the really important work to be done was political and chose to put my efforts into my work with Women Wage Peace, the organization I joined 10 years ago, after the 2014 War with Gaza, when a group of women in Israel got together and said:\u00a0 The only solution to the ongoing wars with Palestinians is Peace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I totally agree with all of your psychological statements as to the diagnosis of psychological states and to your statements as to the condition of psychological services in the West Bank and Gaza. The only real cure for the anxiety incurred by War is Peace.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I only wanted to bring to your attention, and to that of the readers of the New York Times, that the same situation exists in Israel, though to a lesser degree. Though the physical destruction of Gaza is incomparable to that in Israel, the very existence of Israel as a country which is a safe haven for Jews is threatened. We are, in the final analysis, a group of 7 million Jews in an area of many more Palestinians and 300 million Arabs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so I choose to put my efforts into peace work.\u00a0 Only a Peace Agreement can hold out the hope for a better future for Israel and Palestinians.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0We also have a sister organization \u2013 Women of the Sun &#8211;\u00a0 in the West Bank and Gaza, with women who also think that a political agreement is the only way to provide their children with a safe future and instill in them this hope so they strive to build, not destroy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I call to you to help all of us put our efforts together to bring a better future to all the children in the Land of Israel and Palestine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Jo Even Caspi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an Educational and Developmental Psychologist, member of WWP<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A response to an opinion paper in the NY Times https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/22\/opinion\/gaza-palestinians-mental-health.html Dear Yara, I am an Israeli child psychologist. 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