Women Wage Peace Group has called on all political parties to commit to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
The group on Friday, set up a Mother's Tent in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, where the group will have to sit until the day after the April 9 elections.
The group noted that they engage in a non-violent resolution that is mutually adopted by the Israelis and Palestinians. It has also demanded that women should be included in the peace making process as authorised by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1328.
One of the speaker at the rally, Ronnie Keider, a mother of 5 children and a grandmother of 17 grandchildren from Moshav Netiva Haasara on the northern Gaza border in a statement, said, "I am standing here to transform the current reality of fear and anxiety to one of hope and prosperity. To attain this goal, Israelis and Palestinians have to consider each other as equals. The time has come to talk", Keider said, adding that "years of enmity and war have to end.Violence has not achieved anything. There has been reaction after reaction, war after war and where has that led us."
Again, she said, "I am turning to the leaders of today and tomorrow and asking them to do something brave."
Another woman, Suzaan Abd Bshara from the Israeli-Arab City of Tira, a mother of 3, told the crowd that she believed in peace between neighbours and nations. "It doesn't matter if one lives on one side of the Green Line or the other. The feelings are the same feelings, the fear of what will happen to our children is the same. We all want a better future for our children", she said. In addition, Abd Bshara said "I am here to stop the next war."
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