VOA常速英语2008年-Israeli Mayor Calls for Truce Talks With Hamas
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Jerusalem
24 February 2008
An Israeli mayor on the front lines of the conflict with the Palestinians is calling for a truce 1 with Islamic militants 3. But reaction was cool in both the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau.
The mayor of the southern Israeli border town of Sderot, Eli Moyal, says he is willing to hold truce talks with the Islamic militant 2 group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip. Sderot has been hard hit by daily Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza that have terrorized residents and battered 4 the economy.
It was an about-face for Moyal, a member of the hawkish 5 Likud Party, who has been calling for the army to invade Gaza to end the rocket attacks.
Hamas, which has called for a truce in the past, dismissed Moyal's offer as a publicity 6 stunt 7. The group said if Israel wants a cease-fire it should end military action and its crippling blockade of Gaza.
The Israeli government also rejected the truce proposal. Israeli spokesman Mark Regev says Hamas is a terrorist organization that refuses to renounce 8 violence or recognize Israel.
"We are talking of an extremist group, a very hateful agenda, a very extremist agenda, opposed to peace, opposed to reconciliation," said Regev. "And so there is not much to talk about."
At the weekly Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a $91-million plan to fortify 9 homes in Sderot.
Mr. Olmert said that about half the eight-thousand homes in Sderot would be fortified 10, with the priority given to those buildings directly in the line of fire. The Prime Minister also said that Sderot would be equipped with an anti-missile defense 11 system by 2010.
- The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
- She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
- The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。
- 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。
- The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
- He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事，只当它是一种宣传手法。
- Lack of the right food may stunt growth.缺乏适当的食物会阻碍发育。
- Right up there is where the big stunt is taking place.那边将会有惊人的表演。
- She decided to renounce the world and enter a convent.她决定弃绝尘世去当修女。
- It was painful for him to renounce his son.宣布与儿子脱离关系对他来说是很痛苦的。
- This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
- This treaty forbade the United States to fortify the canal.此条约禁止美国对运河设防。
- He fortified himself against the cold with a hot drink. 他喝了一杯热饮御寒。
- The enemy drew back into a few fortified points. 敌人收缩到几个据点里。