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ince 1967, the Israeli left
protested the occupation of
the West Bank and Gaza,
saying the only way to end
it and bring peace was to deal
with the PLO. They were ahead
of their time. Now that Israel has
caught up with them, the left has
lost its main issue. Consequent-
ly, it also appears to be losing its
electoral appeal.
The Meretz (Vigor) party had
already been falling in popular-
ity when its leader, Minister of
Arts, Culture and Science Shu-
lamit Aloni, announced in mid-
January that she would not be
running on its Knesset list in the
October 29 elections.
Ms. Aloni, 67, flamboyant in
her flying blond curls and color-
ful dresses, has long been Israel's
most fearless, sharp-tongued op-
ponent of
right-wing and
Orthodox poli-
tics. She said
she was leav-
ing Meretz be-
cause the
party had put
aside its fight
for civil rights
— meaning
the fight
against Ortho-
dox rule over
religion, mar-
riage, divorce
and Jewish cit-
izenship — for Shulamit Aloni:
fear of alienat- Returning to the fold?
ing the hared-
im and weakening the
government's majority for peace.
Coalition politics, she charged,
had silenced the party on demo-
cratic issues it had always strug-
gled over. "I was elected on the
Meretz platform, not the Shas
[Sephardi Orthodox] platform,"
Ms. Aloni said in a televised in-
terview.
Civil rights activists were sym-
pathetic to her charges. "There
were times when we felt that in
its quest for peace, Meretz did not
place enough emphasis on the
struggle for freedom of religion,
or freedom from religion," said
Zamira Segev, executive director
of Hemdat, the Council of Free-
dom of Science, Religion and Cul-
ture in Israel.
Ms. Segev noted that in 1994,
some Meretz Knesset members
were willing to go along with
then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Ra-
bin's readiness to placate Shas
by writing the religious status

quo into law that likely would
have been permanent. "This
would have plagued generations
to come, and Ms. Aloni opposed
it," Ms. Segev said.
Ms. Segev noted, however, that
recently Meretz has fought hard
on behalf of recognition for non-
Orthodox conversion and mar-
riage in Israel, and against
Orthodox restraints on archeo-
logical digs. "The party has come
back to itself," she said.
But Meretz is not on the bar-
ricades like it was under Ms.
Aloni's leadership. The party's
new personality is symbolized by
Environment Minister Yossi
Sarid's establishment suit and
tie, and his calm, settled tone of
voice. Ms. Aloni's provocative
style worked brilliantly when c
Meretz was in the opposition; in
the government,
where unpleasant
compromises are
daily business, it
was too danger-
ous for her col-
leagues.
Ms. Aloni effec-
tively lost the
leadership of
Meretz three
years ago. She
was education
minister at the
time, and Shas,
then a partner in
the government
coalition, demand-
ed she be removed.
(Shas' spiritual
leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has
said of Ms. Aloni, "When she dies,
I'll drink a toast.") M-. Rabin ac-
ceded to Shas' demand, and
Meretz went along with him —
for the sake of peace.
Ms. Aloni was exiled to her mi-
nor ministries, while Mr. Sarid
became an insider in the negoti-
ations with the Palestinians. He
was the new, pragmatic face of
Meretz, comfortable in the ways
of power, and he pulled the par-
ty with him.
"There is no Hebrew equiva-
lent for the term, 'to be civilized,"'
Ms. Aloni said, meaning that Mr.
Sarid's takeover of Meretz had
lacked that quality. Mr. Sarid de-
clined to counterattack; like all
his supporters in the party, he ex-
pressed regret over Ms. Aloni's
announcement, lauded her con-
tributions over the years, and ad-
vocated finding a way to bring

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