By this time you couldn’t avoid the stickers saying GET OUT OF LEBANON IN PEACE. Support for an immediate pullout, recently a fringe opinion, was now common. The security zone had been crucial not long before, the lives expended there necessary. Now we started to hear that it might be a mistake. This was the thinking of many in the peace movement, which was to be expected, but there were even voices from the right who said so too. When a new government of the left was elected in 1999 it promised not only to try to make peace with the Palestinians and Syrians but also to pull the army out of Lebanon no matter what. This was supposed to happen within a year of the election, by the summer of 2000. Now that it seemed a withdrawal was not only possible but imminent, the arguments became fiercer. Bruria’s fax machine consumed and spit a constant stream of paper—letters, op-eds, hate mail, charts, plans for protests. Orna was outside the prime minister’s official residence with another gimmick, a mock security zone outpost that the women had built.
