Zionist consciousness.
104 In the course of 2009, there was again a historic opportunity for the achievement of peace: the Palestinian Authority and the PLO publicly called for full peace between Israel and Palestine, Hamas agreed indirectly, the President of the US promised to help with all his might and a world consensus favored the "Two States for Two Peoples" solution. However, in Israel, which was ruled by the extreme right, there was no effective peace movement able to focus public opinion in this direction.
105 The Israeli peace movement has not yet recovered from the blow dealt it in October 2000, after the Camp David conference, when the Israeli public - including a large part of the peace movement itself - came to believe that "there is no partner for peace". The results of the "separation" from Gaza reinforced this belief, owing to the simplistic version that "we have returned all the territory and got Qassams in return". Parts of the peace camp join in the demonization of Hamas and are not ready to accept it as a potential partner in peace negotiations.
106 These opinions led to the conclusion that there is no sense in demonstrations or in voting for peace parties. Some determined extra-parliamentary organizations continued with their important activities - the struggle to convince the public that there is a different way to settle the conflict, contrary to the prevailing brain-washing, as well as the monitoring of road blocks, reporting on the expansion of settlements, medical aid and the fight against the "separation fence", sometimes taking physical risks - but the peace camp has lost its mass basis. This found its expression in the collapse of the political parties identified with the peace movement - at least in theory - in the Israeli parliamentary elections of February 2009.
107 The Israeli conviction that there is "no partner for peace" has been reinforced by the almost total cutting off of the connection between the