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that there's just no hope for peace
with this government."
Ms. Nachmias, 27, offered the
most popular explanation for why
supporters of both Labor and the
even more dovish Meretz party
doesn't seem to be a factor:
They're not protester types, but
tend to be middle class, settled,
cerebral and not easily moved to
take to the streets.
She left out another often-men-
tioned point — that many if not
most Israelis who favor the peace
process do so not out of ideologi-
cal conviction, but out of a simple
desire for an easier, safer life.
These are not the kind of people
who join demonstrations. Fur-
ther. in the past the doves were
a nr.tional political presence.
3ut a lot has changed since
t' ,en. For one, there is a void in
leadership. For all of Mr. Peres'
warnings of doom, he is preoccu-
pied with leading Labor into a na-
tional unity government with
Netanyahu, which has had a
blunting effect on the party's crit-
icism of the government's policies.
The man who is expected to
succeed Mr. Peres as Labor Par-
ty leader in the party's June 3 pri-
maries, Ehud Barak, is too
military minded, cautious and
uninspiring to be an effective
leader of the Peace Camp.
Meanwhile, Labor's junior op-
position partner, Meretz, has be-
gun focusing more on the "culture
war," leading protests on behalf
of businesses trying to stay open
on Shabbat.
"People are disoriented," said
Hillel Schenker, a veteran peace
activist, noting that for all of Mr.
Netanyahu's hawkish moves, he
also negotiated the Hebron pull-
out and the release of Palestin-
ian terrorist prisoners. The prime
minister's zig zags have kept the
opposition's ranks off balance.
Another popular explanation
is that the recent Hamas suicide
bombing of a Tel Aviv cafe, along
with the widespread belief that
Yassir Arafat gave the "green
light" for the attack, has made
the peace process a tough sell.
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of Peace Now, said that it's all not
as unusual as it might appear.
Things just haven't gotten bad
enough yet to spark an aroused
opposition.
"Our big demonstrations
against the Lebanon War didn't
start right after the war broke
out, but four weeks later, after
hundreds of soldiers had already
been killed. The protests during
the intifada didn't happen right
away, either," Raz notes. "I'm sor-
ry to say this, but people don't get
worked up on the 'eve of cata-
strophe' — only after the cata-
strophe is already under way."
But no one predicted the
Lebanon War or the intifada. To-
day, the signs of impending con-
frontation with the Palestinians,
and possibly the rest of the Arab
world, are clear enough. 0

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