By the light of flaming torches, hundreds of Israeli women set off Tuesday night on a 200-kilometer march from the north of the country to Jerusalem, where they will assemble outside the prime minister’s and president’s residences during the upcoming Sukkot festival to demand a negotiated end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If we could only see this same demonstration in Gaza. But unfortunately Hamas would never allow it as they do not want peace.
I used to say this time and time on my radio shows , the answer to peace lies with Palestinian and Israeli mothers hand in hand.
Women Wage Peace is an extraordinary Israeli organisation that now has thousands of Arab as well as Israeli women members.
Some 2,000 people gathered in the dark at the northern coastal area of Rosh Hanikra to take part in the opening event for the march, which was organized by Women Wage Peace, an organization formed after 2014’s war in Gaza that comprises Jewish and Arab women calling for coexistence.
The crowd saw off hundreds of walkers as they headed for the first stage of the trek south to Achziv Beach. From there they will continue on to Jerusalem, where they will be met on October 19 by another group of female peace activists riding bicycles up from the southern port city of Eilat. The cyclists plan to begin their journey on October 18. The week-long festival of Sukkot, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles, begins on the evening of October 17.
In a flyer for the event, WWP declared that “as women, mothers, wives, sisters, and as citizens, we demand our leaders work with courage toward a solution to the bloody ongoing conflict: An agreement that will be respectful, non-violent and accepted by both sides."
Our prayers for Peace took center place in our Rosh Hashona (Jewish New Year) services . My The almighty see fit to answer our prayers next Wednesday the Yom Kippur service, the Jewish day of ATONEMENT
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