巴勒斯坦对以军占领东屋表示愤怒

Palestinians Angry About Orient House Takeover

Meredith Buel

Jerusalem

10 Aug 2001 14:59 UTC

Palestinians are reacting angrily to Israel's decision to seize Orient House, the unofficial Palestinian headquarters in East Jerusalem. Israel made the move after a Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem killed 16 people.

Orient House is a highly 1)symbolic place representing Palestinian hopes for a future state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Built by the Husseini family more than 100 years ago, the two-story 2)mansion served as a hotel before becoming a symbol of Palestinian 3)aspirations after Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war.

Palestinian analyst 1 Mahdi Abdul Hadi says Israel's decision to seize Orient House is a 4)provocation. "It is to challenge the Palestinian symbols, the Palestinian 5)narrative, Palestinian history, Palestinian society in Jerusalem 6)embodied in the national, political central address called the Orient House," he said.

Top Palestinian official Faisal Husseini created Orient House as a place for politicians and intellectuals to gather and discuss issues important to the Arab community.

Some even referred to Orient House as the Palestinian foreign ministry 2, since 7)diplomats would 8)occasionally visit there, despite opposition 3 from the Israeli government.

Israel has closed Orient House before, when Mr. Husseini was in jail for four years during the first Palestinian 9)uprising between 1987 and 1993.

An Israeli law, passed in 1994 and aimed at Orient House, 10)banned any Palestinian political activity that was not approved by the Israeli government.

Mr. Husseini died of a heart attack last May, but Orient House remains 4 a 11)potent symbol of Palestinian 12)nationalism.

Mr. Abdul Haidi says Mr. Husseini and other officials associated with Orient House always supported the peace process with Israel, even during the current wave of violence. "The Orient House has been serving the Palestinian society, the Palestinian community, the Jerusalem people as their political, national address, as a community services institute, as planning and developing and zoning. Planning for Jerusalem's citizens as well as neighborhoods as well as a meeting place to pass the objective message, moderate message, of how to 13)coexist as two people in a shared, open city with two capitals, two flags, two 14)municipalities and two 15)sovereign people," he said.

A statement issued by Orient House called for international 16)intervention in the current conflict, saying Israel has shown a "lack of interest or concern" for the peace process.

Palestinian officials say they plan to escalate 5 the uprising to take back Orient House and other Palestinian institutions seized by the Israelis.

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(2)      mansion[5mAnF(E)n]n.大厦, 官邸, 公寓

(3)      aspiration[AspE5reIF(E)n]n.热望, 渴望

(4)      provocation[prRvE5keIF(E)n]n.激怒, 刺激, 挑衅, 挑拨

(5)      narrative[5nArEtIv]adj.叙述性的n.叙述

(6)      embody[Im5bRdI]vt.具体表达, 使具体化, 包含, 收录

(7)      diplomat[5dIplEmAt]n.外交官, 有外交手腕的人

(8)      occasionally[E5keIVEnElI]adv.有时候, 偶而

(9)      uprising[Qp5raIzIN]n.起义, 升起

(10)      ban[bAn]n.禁令vt.禁止, 取缔(书刊等)

(11)      potent[5pEJtEnt]adj.有力的, 有效的

(12)      nationalism[5nAFEnElIz(E)m]n.民族主义, 国家主义, 民族独立运动

(13)      coexist[kEJI^5zIst]vi.共存

(14)      municipality[mju:nIsI5pAlItI]n.市政当局, 自治市

(15)      sovereign[5sRvrIn]n.君主, 统治adj.至高无上的, 独立自主的, 完全的

(16)      intervention[IntE5venF(E)n]n.干涉