The Israeli Peace Movement: A Shattered Dream Tamar S. Hermann This book describes the predicament of the Israeli peace movement, which paradoxically, following the launching of the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, experienced a prolonged, fatal decline in membership, activity, political significance, and media visibility. After presenting the regional and national background to the launching of the peace process and a short story of the Israeli peace activism, the book focuses on external and internal processes and interactions experienced by the peace movement, after some basic postulates of its agenda were actually, although never explicitly, embraced by the Rabin government. The analysis brings together insights from social movement theory and theories on public opinion and foreign and security policy making. The book's conclusion is that despite its organizational decline and the total lack of credit given it by policy makers, in retrospect it appears that the movement contributed significantly to the integration of new ideas for possible solutions To the Middle East conflict in Israeli mainstream political discourse. Tamar S. Hermann is a professor of Political Science and Dean of Academic Studies at the Open University (OU) of Israel. She also serves as a senior research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and a co-director of the Peace Index Project at Tel Aviv University. Her present research examines the growing estrangement of citizens in many representative democracies from politics and the politicians and is meant to assess the potential outcomes of this process in terms of democratic governability and stability.