Last week, as U.S. President Donald Trump voiced indifference as to how Israelis and Palestinians solve the decades-old conflict between them, a group of women is trying to get the sides to engage in dialogue — something that has not happened in a long time.
They are trying to fight the apathy. Through activities around Israel, over 10,000 women hope to bring peace to the forefront of the discourse in a cynical environment.
In an area riddled by conflict and bloodshed, the notion of peace has never been more distant.
A movement of approximately 12,000 registered female members wants to bring the word back to the Israeli-Palestinian discourse.
“Women Wage Peace” began with a small group of women in 2014.
“It was in the midst of Operation Protective Edge (Israeli offensive in Gaza), a few women were sitting and they were going crazy from despair and the inability to do something,” says Anat Negev who is the head of the Strategic Communication team in Women Wage Peace.
“An understanding was born that you cannot just give birth to children and then give them away to generals to fight in wars,” she adds.
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