This weekend, thousands of tenacious Israeli and Palestinian women – yes, they are still there – marched together through the arid hills of the West Bank, the last leg of a two-week “Journey to Peace” under the banner, “We’re Not Stopping Without An Agreement.” The march, organized by Women Wage Peace, began September 24 from multiple locations across Israel and the West Bank. The women, brave souls mostly dressed in white, stopped midway to erect a “peace tent” named for Hagar and Sarah, scriptural mothers of Ishmael and Isaac, patriarchs of Muslims and Jews. The march ended Sunday with a Jerusalem rally that drew up to 30,000 people. “We are women from the right, the left, Jews and Arabs, from the cities and the periphery,” said one organizer. “And we have decided we will stop the next war.”
— source commondreams.org 2017-10-11