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...Shulamit Aloni leads the new Citizens' Rights Party, whose social and political reform platform gave it enough voter appeal to gain three Knesset seats. "For 15 years," she says. "I was the only one in this country who fought for real human rights. I gave free legal aid. I wrote in newspapers about red tape in the bureaucracies and about constitutional rights...
...Aloni left Rabin's Labor Alignment coalition last year, partly in protest over the inclusion of Mafdal in the coalition. "We have religious coercion that effects legislation," she says. "The religious community can worship however it wants, but it shouldn't force me to do the same in a secular state...
...Aloni's views on the Arab-Israeli conflict are equally vehement. "I think we're strong enough to risk some steps towards peace," she says. "Everything, including Jerusalem, should be negotiated. We didn't negotiate earlier, with Jordan, for example, because we thought we could postpone the decision. The government listened to the right wing too much too often...
...clamor continued until one member of a religious party remarked. "None of this would have happened if only Feder had gone to eat at a kosher restaurant in Geneva."SHULAMIT ALONI: "We're strong enough to risk some steps towards peace...
...Aloni continues, "how can we negotiate with them if they can't recognize Israel? Arafat says he wants a democratic secular state in this land. Well, there is a democratic secular state here and its name is Israel. The moment the PLO is ready to put away their guns and recognize that Israel exists, then we can negotiate with them...