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A DISSENTING DEMOCRACY

The Israeli Movement Peace Now

CASS SERIES: ISRAELI HISTORY, POLITICS AND SOCIETY

Series Editor: Efraim Karsh

ISSN: 1368-4795

This series provides a multidisciplinary examination of all aspects of Israeli history, politics and society, and serves as a means of communication between the various communities interested in Israel: academics, policy-makers, practitioners, journalists and the informed public.

1. Peace in the Middle East: The Challenge for Israel, edited by Efraim Karsh.

2. The Shaping of Israeli Identity: Myth, Memory and Trauma, edited by Robert Wistrich and David Ohana.

3. Between War and Peace: Dilemmas of Israeli Security, edited by Efraim Karsh.

4. U.S.-Israeli Relations at the Crossroads, edited by Gabriel Sheffer.

5. Revisiting the Yom Kippur War, edited by P. R. Kumaraswamy.

6. Israel: The Dynamics of Change and Continuity, edited by David Levi-Faur, Gabriel Sheffer and David Vogel.

7. In Search of Identity: Jewish Aspects in Israeli Culture, edited by Dan Urian and efraim Karsh.

8. Israel at the Polls, 1996, edited by Daniel J. Elazar and Shmuel Sandler.

9. From Rabin to Netanyahu: Israels Troubled Agenda, edited by Efraim Karsh.

10. Fabricating Israeli History: The New Historians, second revised edition, by Efraim Karsh.

11. Divided Against Zion: Anti-Zionist Opposition in Britain to a Jewish State in Palestine, 19451948, by Rory Miller.

12. Peacemaking in a Divided Society: Israel After Rabin, edited by Sasson Sofer.

13. A Twenty-Year Retrospective of Egyptian-Israeli Relations: Peace in Spite of Everything, by Ephraim Dowek.

14. Global Politics: Essays in Honour of David Vital, edited by Abraham Ben-Zvi and Aharon Klieman.

15. Parties, Elections and Cleavages: Israel in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective, edited by Reuven Y. Hazan and Moshe Maor.

16. Israel at the Polls, 1999, edited by Daniel J. Elazar and M. Ben Mollov.

17. Public Policy in Israel, edited by David Nachmias and Gila Menahem.

18. Developments in Israeli Public Administration, edited by Moshe Maor.

19. Israeli Diplomacy and the Quest for Peace, by Mordechai Gazit.

20. IsraeliRomanian Relations at the End of Ceaucescus Era, by Yosef Govrin.

21. John E Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel, by Abraham Ben-Zvi.

22. Green Crescent over Nazareth: The Displacement of Christians by Muslims in the Holy Land, by Raphael Israeli.

23. Jerusalem Divided: The Armistice Regime, 1947-1967, by Raphael Israeli.

24. Crises in the Contemporary Persian Gulf, edited by Barry Rubin.

25. A Dissenting Democracy: The Case of Peace Now, An Israeli Peace Movement, by Magnus Norell.

Israel: The First Hundred Tears(Mini Series), edited by Efraim Karsh.

1. Israels Transition from Community to State, edited by Efraim Karsh.

2. From War to Peace? edited by Efraim Karsh.

3. Israeli Politics and Society Since 1948, edited by Efraim Karsh.

4. Israel in the International Arena, edited by Efraim Karsh.

A DISSENTING DEMOCRACY

The Israeli Movement Peace Now

Magnus Norell

Senior Analyst Swedish Defence Research Agency

First published in 2002 by

FRANK CASS PUBLISHERS

Published 2013 by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 2002 M. Norell

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Norell, Magnus

A dissenting democracy: the Israeli movement Peace Now. (Cass series. Israeli history, politics and society; no. 18) 1. Shalom akhshav (Organization: Israel) 2. Dissenters Israel 3. Democracy Israel 4. Political participation Israel 5. Israel Politics and government 19671993 6. Israel Politics and government 1993

I. Title

322.4095694

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress

ISBN 13: 978-0-714-65350-1 (hbk)

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher of this book.

Typeset in 10.5/13pt Galliard by Frank Cass Publishers

For Maya

A Jew came to his rabbi and asked: Rabbi, will there be war? The Rabbi answered: There will not be war, but there will be such a struggle for peace that not even the stones will be unmoved.

Contents

197377: The Yom-Kippur War A Watershed

The Case of Peace Now in Israel

Peace Movements. An Important Similarity Between the Two Types is the Emphasis on One Issue

Varieties of Peace Movement

CIC	Commander in Chief
CRM	Citizens Rights Movement
CSM	contemporary social movement
DMC	Democratic Movement for Change
FLN	Front Liberation National
ICPME	International Centre for Peace in the Middle East
IDF	Israeli defence Forces
IKV	Interkirkelijk Vredesberaad [Interchurch Peace Council]
LEHI	Lohamei Herut Israel (Freedom Fighters of Israel)
MK	Member of the Knesset
NRP	National Religious Party
NSM	new social movement
NUG	National Unity Government
PA	Palestinian Authority
PAY	Poalei Agudah Yisrael
PLO	Palestine Liberation Organization
PNC	Palestinian National Conference
PRIO	Peace Research Institute of Oslo
PSM	political social movement
SLA	South Lebanese Army
WZO	World Zionist Organization

Since September 2000, when Palestinian rioting soon escalated into a full-blown uprising, close to 1,200 people have been killed. Of those, nearly three-quarters have been Palestinians. The fighting and the violence has pushed the prospects for a solution farther and farther into an unknown future.

Apart from all the dead and wounded, a very early victim of the fighting was the Israeli peace movement, or so it seemed for a long time. During the Fall of 2001, and in the aftermath of the terror attacks in the USA on 11 September, a flurry of activity briefly renewed some efforts to create a diplomatic initiative to break the deadly cycle of violence in the Middle East. The War on Terrorism created, for a while, a strange coalition where Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Yassir Arafat, ended up on the same side, both pledging support for US President Bush and his global struggle to eradicate terrorism. Seizing the moment were also supporters and activists of the peace camp in Israel (both inside and outside of the

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