A dozen or so women had gathered in Samia Zeitoun's elegant and airy living room to hear the testimony of Leslie Whiting, a British woman who had taken part in the recent march for peace in Palestine. The campaign of terror Sharon mounted in Palestine had turned their stomachs. All eyes turned to the woman who had said little so far: the speaker they had come to hear. Leslie Whiting, a British citizen, has lived in Egypt for over a decade, teaching English . Mortified by Western governments' indifference to Palestinian suffering, appalled at the bias shown by the Western media, she joined the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) that travelled to Palestine to see, and show the world, what ordinary Palestinians must face every day. "All our actions are based on non-violent civil disobedience, as exemplified by peace activists such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King," said Whiting.