Are the wrong people trying to solve the Middle East crisis?
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Esther Addley meets a group of campaigners with a simple, radical idea
- include women in the peace talks
Monday September 15, 2003
The Guardian
Shortly before 10am, UK time, last Saturday, Mahmoud Abbas, the
Palestinian prime minister, resigned. In his four months in the job,
Abbas had signed the roadmap document, the latest initiative in the
attempt to bring peace to Israel and the occupied Palestinian
territories. But in the past month, like all of its predecessors, the
plan had begun to fray and disintegrate in the face of violence, chaos
and bitter recrimination. Abbas's despairing departure suggested that
yet another Middle East "peace process" was about to trundle into the
buffers.
Thirty-six hours later, a group of five women arrived in Britain on a
peace delegation from the Middle East. As such, their timing could
scarcely have been worse. Yet, as they see it, the very fact of their
coming is in itself cause for optimism. Two of the women are Jewish
Israelis, two are Palestinians from the West Bank and one is a
Palestinian living inside Israel, and they have come together to argue
for a new way of peacemaking in the region. "The very fact that we are
here in a joint delegation advocating for justice and agreeing on most
things, surely that in itself is a cause for hope," says Amneh Badran,
a Palestinian from east Jerusalem. It is a sign of the paucity of good
news from that part of the world that she is right.
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