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SUMMARY: Two women from different sides of the long and bitter Israeli and Palestinian conflict are trying to make a difference in their own way. Breaking Bread Journeys offers guided tours of the Holy Land and a variety of perspectives on daily life there. Special correspondent Martin Seemungal reports from the West Bank.
JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just one more day to form a coalition government following March’s election, or someone else will be asked to try. His efforts hit a snag Monday when his foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, quit his post and announced that his party would join the opposition.
Netanyahu shocked many when, just days before the election, he reversed position and said there wouldn’t be a Palestinian state if he remained prime minister, a statement he softened after his victory.
Despite that and many other setbacks to the peace process, our special correspondent, Martin Seemungal, recently met two remarkable women who have chosen to blaze their own trail forward through the painful realities of the region.
MARTIN SEEMUNGAL, Special correspondent: Elisa Moed on the left is an Israeli. Christina Samara is a Palestinian. And they are doing something rare, some would say revolutionary, in this part of the Middle East. They’re in business together.
CHRISTINA SAMARA, Co-Founder, Breaking Bread Journeys: First of all, it feels good to have a friend and a partner in business who is an Israeli and doing this on a very personal level.
MARTIN SEEMUNGAL: They are seasoned tour operators who met by chance when they were invited to take part in a panel on marketing the Holy Land.
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