Thousands of women attend peace demo in Jerusalem/Haaretz Israel
Hopefully, the PR stunt at congress will backfire on Bibi and he'll be tossed out of office.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.645360
Some 3,000 women gathered at the Knesset Rose Garden in Jerusalem on Wednesday to press for peace and protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress.
The event was organized by Women Wage Peace, a new group that was launched last summer in the wake of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. The organization includes both Jews and Arabs, religious and secular women.
"Israel is stuck in a barren dialogue with itself that there is no choice and no partner," declared Irit Keynan, a professor at the academic college of Or Yehuda and head of the graduate program for education, as well as head of the Institute for Civic Responsibility. "Politicians who are uninterested in peace hold onto weak excuses and raise the ghosts of the Jewish people's traumatic fears."
Meanwhile, she said, "politicians who are interested in peace are afraid to say so out loud, and compete with each other for the toughest stance."
As a result, she said, a twisted situation has arisen in which patriotism is identified with warlike discourse, while the word peace has become derogatory. It has reached the point where people have advised the movement to change its name, she noted.
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