they rarely enforce their posturing on women s inclusion when it comes to negotiations in reality for instance in her discussion of the taef agreement in lebanon kari karame chapter notes that even though the negotiation of the agreement was supported by the united nations and the united states only men were invited to the negotiation table as vanessa farr shows in chapter more than years later contrary to the clear directives given in scr to include women in all aspects of decisionmaking in a conflict zone palestinian women are routinely excluded from all highlevel negotiations on the israelpalestine question by palestinian males the state of israel and the international community