Mairead Maguire, speaking at the END OF PROJECT CONFERENCE ‘Spirit of Resilience’ Empowering Palestinian Women, Ramallah 19th, 2015. Dear Sisters, I write to send you my love and greetings. I am sorry I cannot be with you all to attend your very important Women’s’ Conference, as I am banned, by the Israeli Government from entering Israel/Palestine, due to my peaceful ‘Free Gaza’ activities. However, I am with you in a spirit of love, friendship, admiration, and an abiding hope and belief in each one of you and all you do for women’s freedom, and Human Rights including the civil rights of Health Care, Development, etc., As Women living in the midst of an Israeli occupation, built on an Apartheid System, you know the high cost emotionally/psychologically/physically and financially of the…