Word: alony
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...INTERVIEWS WITH the Crimson last week, Olmert and Aloni expressed markedly different positions on key policy questions, differences which reflect the depth of the rift in Israeli political thought...
...Aloni: "A West Bank state, if demilitarized for security reasons, might be a real solution." Olmert: "The West Bank is too limited for a separate independent state. Such a state would by nature be expansionist...
...Aloni advocated a far more conciliatory approach to the Palestinian question. "To say, as Rabin does, that Israel will never negotiate with terrorists, is not good enough. Israel must recognize that there is a Palestinian national entity-that the Palestinians have a right to self-determination. But in the process, the government should affirm that Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people...
...Aloni believes that Israeli recognition of Palestinians' fundamental rights is the primary step toward peace in the Middle East. "With whom we negotiate is of course another crucial question. I think Rabin should be prepared to sit down with anyone who represents the Palestinians, even if this means Arafat and the P.L.O., as long as they recognize Israel's right to exist...
...split between Aloni and Olmert, which indicates the basis of the ideological struggle between left and right in Israel is demonstrated again by their differing views on the Plausibility of a Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan...