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enough to break the dialogue,
according to Peace Now
leader Amiram Goldblum.
"We know the PLO has
several factions. There are
some people willing to talk to
Israelis rather than advocate
violence. We are going to ask
them (at the conference) to
use pressure on those factions
that call for violence," Gold-
blum says.
What will these high-profile
events accomplish besides
publicity? Is it enough to
sway an Israeli government
that has an agreement signed
by 95 out of 120 Knesset
members opposing talks with
the PLO and the establish-
ment of a Palestinian state?
Some agree with Prime
Minister Shamir. "They have
the ability to create some
momentum," says Dr. Ehud
Sprinzak, a Hebrew Univer-
sity political scientist. "But if
Peace Now were to disappear
tomorrow, Israel wouldn't be
any different."
Amiram Goldblum dis-
agrees. "There is clear public
support for the ideas of Peace
Now. We represent 25 percent
of the population," he says,
calculating the number of
Knesset members, including
Labor party doves, who sup-
port dialogue with the PLO.
Gauging the size of the
group's constituency is diffi-
cult. Peace Now has only re-
cently begun to recruit
members and to consider
opening an office with paid
staff. Until now, the move-
ment has been guided by local
branches of activists, 30 or 40
of whom meet biweekly in a
central forum.
Sprinzak estimates that
Peace Now could achieve a
paid-up membership of "a few
hundred or a few thousand"
Israelis. Still, after Sabra and
Shatilla, the group was able
to muster 400,000 to protest
the direction the war in
Lebanon was taking.
That was Peace Now's
zenith. It went into eclipse
when Likud and Labor put
together the first national
unity government in 1984, ac-
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