THERE are too many Jews and Palestinians so full of hate all they can do is mock these women and their supporters. But any person of faith knows that God's blessing is on those who seek just and lasting peace. Not only is God on their side, sex is too. I will always be impressed by the thousands of ladies of Liberia who brought a 14 year civil war to an end by not only withholding sex from their husbands but also by threatening to expose themselves, naked, to the world and so bringing shame to their husbands families, and so forcing the men of Liberia to finally sign a peace agreement and restore a democratic government to the country. If you do not know the story I suggest you watch the movie 'Pray The Devil Back To Hell', and pray for Women Wage Peace in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. From Democracy Now! and the Times of Israel.....
Thousands of Israeli and Palestinian Women March for Peace
8 OCTOBER 17
Vivian Silver: “We are organizing women from all over the country, from every side of the political spectrum, who are saying, 'Enough! Maspik [Hebrew for enough]'—in Arabic, it’s ’makkafi’—’Enough. We’re no longer willing to do this.’ We must reach a political agreement. We must change the paradigm that we have been taught for seven decades now, where we’ve been told that only war will bring peace. We don’t believe that anymore. It’s been proven that it’s not true.”
Thousands of Israeli, Palestinian women march for peace
The Women Wage Peace movement organized the march, which began on September 24 and includes participants who have themselves been affected by violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Several thousand activists joined the march over the two weeks.
Women from the ‘Women Wage Peace’ movement and Palestinians take part in a march near the Jordan River, in the West Bank on October 8, 2017. (Flash90)
“We must come together to be able to reach the peace that we all want,” Michal Froman, who was stabbed by a Palestinian in January 2016 while pregnant with her fifth child, told AFP last week, saying she wants to “believe in peace.”
“As a religious woman, I say that to not believe in peace is to not believe in God.”
Huda Abuarquob, one of the organizers and a Palestinian from Hebron in the West Bank, said: “This march is not just another protest, but a way of saying that we want peace, and together we can obtain it.”
Published on Oct 8, 2017
A 22-meter-high (70 feet) dress, billed as the world’s largest, was displayed for the first time near the Dead Sea in honor of the women as they walked past.
The dress, which has a circumference of 60 meters (200 feet), was created in 2007 by Israeli artist and activist Adi Yekutieli to highlight the plight of “chained” women whose husbands refuse them a Jewish bill of divorce. It has never been shown publicly before.
The world’s largest dress, 22 meters high and 60 meters circumference, created by Israeli Adi Yekutieli in 2007. (Courtesy)
The march comes at a time when many analysts see little hope for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is 82 and unpopular, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads what is seen as the most right-wing government in his country’s history.
In 2015, Women Wage Peace members fasted in relays over 50 days, the length of the 2014 war between Israel and the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip.
Sunday’s arrival in Jerusalem coincides with the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which commemorates the Jewish journey through the Sinai after their exodus from Egypt.
Earlier Sunday, thousands of Jews gathered at Jerusalem’s Western Wall for a priestly blessing held during the holiday each year.
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