时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA常速英语(十月)


英语课
By Robert Berger
Jerusalem
11 October 2007

Jerusalem is emerging as a major stumbling block in new peace negotiations 1 between Israel and the Palestinians.  As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, both Jews and Muslims are claiming the city's holy sites as their own.


A senior Palestinian official has thrown a wrench 2 into peace talks by saying that the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, the holiest place in Judaism, belongs to Islam and the Palestinians.


The Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Adnan Husseini says the Western Wall is a "Wakf" or Islamic Trust that must be returned to Palestinian control.  He told Israel Radio that it is a supporting wall for the al-Aksa Mosque 3, the third holiest place in Islam.


For Israel, the wall is the last remnant of the biblical Temple, and turning it over to the Palestinians is unthinkable.


As Israel and the Palestinians try to hammer out a declaration of principles to be presented at an international peace conference this year, Jerusalem is back on the negotiating table.


In a compromise proposal earlier this week, Israel offered to hand over some Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem to Palestinian control, though that would not include the Old City, where contested holy sites are located.


Israeli parliamentarian Reuven Rivlin, of the hawkish 4 opposition 5 Likud party, says the government made a mistake by negotiating on Jerusalem in the first place.  


Rivlin told Israel Radio that if you begin by offering Arab neighborhoods to the Palestinians then you end at the Western Wall.  He said no Israeli leader has the right to negotiate over Jerusalem, which he says is the eternal capital of the Jewish people.


Reinforcing Palestinian demands, President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel must withdraw from all territory captured in the 1967 war, including Jerusalem's Old City.  Israel's government says that is a non-starter.  




协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
v.猛拧;挣脱;使扭伤;n.扳手;痛苦,难受
  • He gave a wrench to his ankle when he jumped down.他跳下去的时候扭伤了足踝。
  • It was a wrench to leave the old home.离开这个老家非常痛苦。
n.清真寺
  • The mosque is a activity site and culture center of Muslim religion.清真寺为穆斯林宗教活动场所和文化中心。
  • Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order.几年前,清真寺钟楼里的大钟失灵了。
adj. 鹰派的, 强硬派的
  • My staff's advice that first day was amazingly hawkish. 在第一天,我的僚属们的意见是令人吃惊的鹰派意见。
  • Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet. 反战团体担心巴拉克·奥巴马可以创建强硬派内阁。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
学英语单词
absolute function
Alangium salviifolium
aldoses
alienation of affections
aminoethylpiperazine
Apple Qaedas
armies of the righteous
aronixil
augmented content addressing memory
basketbrawls
biboveralls
braking noise
bucket rack
carboxylases
casualist
center joint
chalcedonies
chip computer
chromophobe adenoma of pituitary
coamplification
colo(u)r selective mirror
computerised navigation
Connell Canyon
correlation neuron
costing stock
counter coil
crossover filter
deep moisturizing
deep temproal merves
deliquescent agent
detention warrant
diameter of brake drum
dick riding
didone
displacive type ferroelectrics
each-others
electro-constant
Eugenio Pacelli
Filicium
fireproofing
four-stager
gaunt
half as much again as
hard to get
have precedence ove
high strength and high modulus polyacrylonitrile fibre
hold your nose
hydraulic copy shaper
i will follow
incremental tape unit
insert here
insolation cracking
intracephalic
iwill
J. L.
jockey for position
laudanidine
lend an ear to
mesomorphic soil
michael owen
minipark
MKW mill
Moanda
monospherical
oscillatory extinction
pamphleteers
percentage of refuse content
phase gain
Primazin dyes
pulse shifter
quiescent condition
quite good
rail port
raspberry wine red
registered trader
Rui Barbosa
Sabria
sedgier
Sejoong Traditional Stone Museum
singing fish
sioned
spiffed up
sporangial sac
stand confessed as
stereoagnosis
straight tickets
suck-egg
superelevation gauge
tackle fall
Tammany Society
telarico
The exception confirms the rule.
thermal activation of magnetic domain
Todos Santos
universal seam welder
upper race ring
volcano eruption
Walking horse
Westmill
wheelon process
william thompsons
yahama