Israel's Peace Now marks 30th anniversary, says its ideas now mainstream, but peace elusive

Israel's pioneering Peace Now group marked its 30th anniversary with mixed feelings. Its call for trading land for peace is accepted by a majority of Israel's people, but peace itself appears as far away as ever.

For the anniversary Tuesday, Peace Now pitched a large white tent in Tel Aviv's central square, site of Israel's largest peace rallies, but also the spot where Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was gunned down in 1995 by an ultranationalist zealot trying to sabotage the Israeli leader's attempt to trade land for peace with the Palestinians.

Only a few hundred invited guests attended afternoon panel discussions inside the tent in the epicenter of secular …