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Source: http://nytimes.com/2002/08/30/opinion/30NEWM.html
How Israel's Peace Movement Fell Apart
(New York Times) David Newman - The peace movements in Israel have been silenced in the past year. Many of the most prominent peace activists, silent and disillusioned, have retired to the seclusion of their homes. Many on the left have moved to the center. The peace movements and organizations were tired long before the Camp David fiasco. They failed to attract the younger, middle-class, high-tech generation to their ranks. This failure contrasted strongly with the dynamic activism of the right-wing and West Bank settler movements that have successfully won the hearts and minds of a second, and even third, generation of activists. Israeli right-wing ideology has constantly been renewed