NAZARETH, Israel, March 17 (Xinhua) -- "Every woman can be a woman of frustration. I'm not optimistic. I'm not pessimistic. I'm just struggling," said Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian female legislator in the Israeli parliament, Knesset.
Zoabi has made a history in Israel as the first woman to be elected in the Knesset on an Arab Party's list. At her 41, she has been representing the Arab National Democratic Party in the parliament since 2009.
Sitting in her office in Nazareth, viewed by the Palestinian Arabs in Israel as their effective capital, Zoabi argues in an interview with Xinhua that her real task is to advance the cause of ending Israel's occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a cause for both Palestinian men and women.
In her opinion, it is up to the Palestinians to decide the future of those two areas after the complete ending of the Israeli occupation.
"My struggle as a Palestinian is to end the occupation, to dismantle the settlements. I don't care if I get at the end two states or one state. I care about equality," she said.
Like many of her electorate, Zoabi identifies herself as a Palestinian, as well as a citizen of Israel.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2011-03/17/c_13784240.htm(oops. nearly forgot to add the link!)
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