2006年VOA标准英语-Israelis Have Conflicting Opinions of How

By Simon Marks
Jerusalem
31 January 2006
 
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The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, says he will continue to pursue peace with Israel, despite the shock victory by the radical¹ Islamic organization Hamas in last week’s Palestinian elections.  He is also asking that international funding for the Palestinians not be cut off.

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Ehud Olmert (file photo)   
  

Israel's Acting² Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is urging the international community to stand together, and refuse to deal with a Hamas-led government unless the organization renounces³ violence and its call for the destruction of Israel.

These are uncertain times in Palestinian politics … and supporters of Fatah have been turning on the faction's leaders. Furious that their party's 10-year dominance of Palestinian elected politics is over, they stormed the Parliament buildings in Gaza and on the West Bank.

The winners meanwhile are huddling⁴ with their supporters. Hamas leaders who never expected to win the elections are now trying to come to terms with the duties of government.

Nowhere is the outcome of those discussions more closely observed than in Jerusalem, Israelis are hotly debating the consequences of the political earthquake on their doorstep.

 
Hirsh Goodman
  
“I don't think anything that happens in the Palestinian territories could shock Israelis; we're beyond shock,” says liberal Israeli intellectual Hirsh Goodman. He believes the election results could present his country with an opportunity.

“Israel is going to be watching the music very carefully. And one thing about Hamas, first of all, it has had a cease-fire with Israel for the last year and a half. The suicide bombers⁵ have not come from Hamas. The second thing is that they've always been a pragmatic party with a social agenda. And because of its pragmatism, there is a window of opportunity here. But it's going to take a lot of people climbing down from a lot of trees and a bit of time,” he added.

Conservatives here disagree.  With Israel due to hold an election of its own in two month's time, they say the Hamas victory should mark a formal end to a period in which Israel tried to engage with the Palestinian Authority.

A spokesman for the conservative Likud Party said Israel's withdrawal⁶ from settlements on the Gaza Strip pushed through by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who later left the party before the stroke that left him in a coma⁷, was the cause of the Hamas victory.  When Israel flees, said a Likud spokesman, Hamas rises.

Yossi Klein Halevi  
  
“Let's stop excusing them and let's start treating them as responsible adults, says conservative analyst⁸ Yossi Klein Halevi of The Shalem Center, a Jerusalem think thank. He says Israel should take a tough stand.

“I suspect that the consensus⁹ that will emerge in the coming days in Israel is that a Hamas government even if it's democratically elected is a government that represents the random¹⁰ murder of over a thousand Israelis.  We will treat the democratically-elected government of Palestine as a terrorist, genocidally-minded organization.”

Hard-liners say the Hamas victory makes them even more determined¹¹ to push for an expansion of the wall that Israel has constructed separating Palestinian villages on the West Bank from Israeli settlements. And with an Israeli campaign getting underway, the politics of the Palestinian authority are likely to loom¹² large in Israel's domestic political debate.

1 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

2 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

3 renounces   

v.声明放弃( renounce的第三人称单数 )；宣布放弃；宣布与…决裂；宣布摒弃

参考例句：

• Japan renounces all right, title and claim to Formosa and the Pescadores. 日本放弃对福尔摩沙（台湾）及澎湖的一切权利，主张（名称）及所有权。 来自互联网
• He renounces Christianity, temporarily straining his relationship with his parents. 他放弃了基督教信仰，从而与父母的关系暂时变得紧张。 来自互联网

4 huddling   

n. 杂乱一团, 混乱, 拥挤 v. 推挤, 乱堆, 草率了事

参考例句：

• Twenty or thirty monkeys are huddling along the thick branch. 三十只猴子挤在粗大的树枝上。
• The defenders are huddling down for cover. 捍卫者为了掩护缩成一团。

5 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 withdrawal   

n.取回，提款；撤退，撤军；收回，撤销

参考例句：

• The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
• They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。

7 coma   

n.昏迷，昏迷状态

参考例句：

• The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
• She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。

8 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

9 consensus   

n.(意见等的)一致，一致同意，共识

参考例句：

• Can we reach a consensus on this issue?我们能在这个问题上取得一致意见吗？
• What is the consensus of opinion at the afternoon meeting?下午会议上一致的意见是什么？

10 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

11 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。

12 loom   

n.织布机，织机；v.隐现，(危险、忧虑等)迫近

参考例句：

• The old woman was weaving on her loom.那位老太太正在织布机上织布。
• The shuttle flies back and forth on the loom.织布机上梭子来回飞动。