Journey to Peace - Israel & Palestine

Journey to Peace

14.12.2017

On November 6th, 2017 Kla.tv reported about the Day of International Friendship in Switzerland. People of various nationalities, cultures, with different world-views etc. met, testifying to each other mutual respect and love. Yael Deckelbaum from Israel and Miriam Toukan from Palestine were among the 3000 guests invited. In 2016 they organized their first peace march “Women Wage Peace”, in order to show that the peoples do not want division and war. The song “Prayer of the Mothers”, created by Yael Deckelbaum in 2016, which the two women sang on the “Day of International Friendship”, also inspired and touched the hearts of the visitors in Switzerland. Here Yael and Miriam announced their second peace march, for 2017 in Israel. “Journey to Peace” took place from September 24th to October 10th. From the starting point, Sderot on to the Dead Sea, where in the evening of Yom Kippur (the most important Israeli holiday) the huge festival of reconciliation was celebrated. Around 13,000 Israelis and Palestinians, as well as visitors from all over the world took part in the march, to demonstrate that peace between the two countries is very well possible. Both Israelis and Palestinians promised: “We will not give up, and will go on fighting for peace until the conflict is totally ended.” From the Dead Sea the marching people moved on towards Jaffa, where on October 16th, the first part of the journey ended. The second part ended in Jerusalem. On October 8th, even approximately 30,000 met there. This powerful event ended, late in the evening of October 10th, in Jerusalem’s Independence Park. There people of both nations, Israel and Palestine came together, united in word, gestures and songs, with love in a respectful atmosphere. As in the year before, the peace march “Women Wage Peace”, in spite of the huge numbers of participants, was hardly given any press coverage in Europe or in the Near East, although large numbers of journalists were present. Kla.tv took advantage of the invitation and joined in, from Jaffa to Jerusalem to cover this live, in order that you valued viewers can get an impression of this remarkable event. We did intense interviews live on location with participants in the march. Allow yourself to be touched by the live film cut from Israel and the heart-uniting messages from these, supposedly enemy nations.

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Sources/Links: https://www.kla.tv/10695
http://womenwagepeace.org.il/en/journey-peace-2017/
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.816255