As I write this, September 1, four Israelis have been shot to death in the West Bank. Some Palestinians celebrate the deaths and the settlers call for retribution, while a major rabbi calls Palestinians "an evil race." A craziness sweeps from the mall in Washington, D.C. where Obama is pictured as Hitler to the streets of the West Bank and Jerusalem. The glorification of killing, of nationalisms that obliverate the lives of unwanted others, waves its ghostly hand over our times. Here seven woman--Hellen, Alex, Joan, Hinde, Geraldine, Sandra and a friend--stood, once again, trying to intercede like so many in peace movements, in anti occupation movements around the world, try to do, to look a passing woman or man in the eye and ask, human to human, is this the kind of world you want.
