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...representatives of opposition factions have been traveling in the United States during the last week. Shulamit Aloni is a leading leftist in Israeli politics; she founded the Citizens Rights Party as an offshot of Labor, and calls for more attention to societal problems such as prejudice against Oriental Jews and Arabs, lack of consumer protection, and expanding, depersonalized bureaucracy. Aloni served as a Minister in Rabin's cabinet until last month, when she resigned in protest over his decision to include the rightist National Religious Party in the governing coalition. She has, however, retained her seat in the Knesset. Although...
...shouldn't say we won't negotiate with terrorists--many heads of state of countries now in the United Nations were once terrorists," Aloni told a Science Center gathering sponsored by H-R Hillel and the United Jewish Appeal...
...question is if we can negotiate with somebody who desn't recognize the very right of Israel to exist," Aloni said. "This is something Israel...
...Aloni said a majority of Israelis now support negotiation with the Arabs. She urged the Israeli government to obtain a mandate for peace by calling elections now, so that the solution of the Palestinian problem would not be postponed any longer...
Otherwise, Aloni predicted, "There will have to be another war to bring people to talk about the things they won't talk about today...