new Palestinian leadership and the Israeli peace movement - a connection that had been diligently furthered by Yasser Arafat for decades.
108 More and more individuals and groups who should have been natural supporters of the peace camp have turned to other matters, which are important in themselves - such as protection of the environment, feminism, the rights of gays and lesbians, worker's right in general and the rights of foreign workers in particular, and religion-state relations.These subjects have become asylums for those who are tired of the struggle for peace, against occupation and settlements.This inclination has been encouraged by the tendency of the media to cover these subjects while ignoring almost completely any activities for peace.
109 There is an urgent necessity for the building of a new Israeli peace camp, on firmer foundations than in the past.This new camp must be able to attract people from all sectors of Israeli society women and men, Jews and Arabs, Orientals and Ashkenazi,the elderly and the young, old-timers and new immigrants, secular and religious - and to encompass all progressive causes.
110 The new Peace Movement must be based on the understanding that the conflict is a clash between the Zionist-lsraeli movement, whose "genetic code" directs it to take over the entire country and to drive out the non-Jewish population, and the Palestinian national movement, whose "genetic code" directs it to halt this drive and set up a Palestinian State in the entire country.
111 The task of the Israeli peace movement is to stop the historical clash, overcome the ZionistIsraeli "genetic code" and to cooperate with the Palestinian peace forces, in order to enable a peace through historic compromise that will lead to reconciliation between the two peoples.The Palestinian peace forces have a similar task.
112 For this, diplomatic formulations of a future peace agreement are insufficient. The Israeli peace movement must address the hearts and