As formal peace talks hover at ground zero in the Middle East, the region’s women are joining hands in more personal ways. For instance, a group called Women Wage Peace aims to unite Arab women from Palestine with their Arab and Jewish counterparts in Israel. Their goal is to bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to the negotiating table.
According to an article in the Christian Science Monitor, the group has organized several peace marches since 2014. Their last one attracted 10,000, including 2,000 Palestinian women from the West Bank.
Women like Ghadir Hani, an Arab woman who lives in Israel, have joined Women Wage Peace because they are frustrated with a deteriorating situation. ”We tell each other shalom (peace), on the streets in greeting and in the prayers we recite, but we don’t feel any sense of shalom,” says Hani. ”We speak of peace, but we want to feel peace.” ….
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