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Zion and a local entrepreneur, Eric Yellin, who is blogging and phoning peace-minded Gazans, are among the very few people in Sderot - and in all of Israel, for that matter - who opposed the 22-day offensive into Gaza, which ended on Jan. 18 in the shakiest of cease-fires. Lately, Zion has rarely gone out. When she did leave home, she was often forced to dive into the bunker of her suburban house - Sderot was hammered by 203 rockets during the fighting. And if, despite the risks, she got to Sderot's flag-festooned marketplace, she was often cursed...
Israeli peaceniks are lonely people these days. The Gaza war may have sparked global protests condemning the heavy number of Palestinian civilian casualties. But inside Israel, peace demonstrations gathered only a few hundred protesters, who were swiftly shouted down by mobs yelling "Death to Arabs...
...peace movement. Israelis became convinced that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat played a double game, talking peace but battling Israelis from within the Jewish state and the Palestinian territories. In 2000, after the collapse of the Clinton Administration's peace talks at Camp David, Arafat, claiming that Israel had failed to honor its commitments, presided over a second intifadeh. Then came the wave of suicide bombings from 2001 through mid-2002, which wreaked terror in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
...that was enough to make Israeli peace activists doubt their mission. But worse was to come. In 2005, just after the last Israeli soldier left Gaza - which Israel had occupied since 1967 - a Palestinian rocket arced its way from the territory into Israel, and thousands more followed. Israeli leftists had always believed in "land for peace" - the idea that if Palestinians had the real estate on which to create a viable nation, they would learn to live side by side with Israel. But as Yaron Ezrahi, a political scientist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, says, "In the end, we didn...
...pictures of 60 years of Israel...