ABSTRACT
Peace Now's first major political campaign was its most conspicuous success. It played a major role in mobilizing Israeli public opinion and in maintaining the momentum of public support for the negotiations that led to the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt achieved at Camp David. Peace Now declared its readiness to meet only with Palestinians who recognize Israel's right to exist and renounced violence as a means of achieving their national aspirations. In a number of different contexts the present writer has heard leaders of Peace Now compare and contrast their position during the war in Lebanon to those slightly to their left and to their right. The structure of Peace Now is characterized by extreme informality. Although Bar-On stresses the spontaneity, lack of formal leadership, structured decision making, and institutionalization, the movement is anything but disorganized. In order to correct the ethnic imbalance of their movement, Peace Now volunteers began to seek contact in the poorer ethnic neighborhoods.
