2006年VOA标准英语-Israel Rejects Palestinian Truce Offer
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（十一月)
By Robert Berger
Jerusalem
24 November 2006
Palestinian factions 1 have proposed a truce 2 with Israel aimed at ending months of fighting in the Gaza Strip. But Israel has rejected the offer, as we hear from Robert Berger at the VOA bureau in Jerusalem.
---
Residents of Sderot in southern Israel run for shelter as a siren is heard signaling an incoming rocket, 24 Nov. 2006
The ruling Hamas group and other Palestinian militant 3 factions including Islamic Jihad have agreed to halt rocket attacks against Israel. However, the truce, or "hudna" in Arabic, is conditional 4 on Israel halting all military operations against the Palestinians in Gaza.
"If the Israeli is ready to stop their aggression 5, so at that time we can give [a] long term hudna or long-term truce, and after that let time heal," said Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar.
Palestinian rocket attacks and the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in June have prompted a five-month Israeli offensive in Gaza, and militants 6 have suffered heavy casualties in almost daily raids.
Israel is not prepared to ease up. It says a ceasefire would be meaningless unless Palestinian terror groups disarm 7. Israeli spokeswoman Miri Eisen says the Palestinians are smuggling 8 tons of weapons through tunnels under the Egyptian border, and a truce would enable them to rearm for the next round of conflict.
"The smuggling of weapons through these tunnels of terror into the Gaza Strip is a threat," said Eisen. "These are potential weapons that would be exceedingly lethal 9, even more than the rockets that we see nowadays."
So despite the truce offer, violence is continuing unabated. Rockets were fired at Israel, and Palestinians say a 10-year-old boy was killed in an Israeli raid.
And underscoring the angry mood in Gaza, hundreds of Palestinians buried a 64-year-old grandmother who blew herself up in a failed attack against Israeli troops. She was by far the oldest of more than a hundred suicide bombers 10 who have attacked Israelis since the Palestinian uprising began six years ago.
- The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
- rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别
- 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。
- My agreement is conditional on your help.你肯帮助我才同意。
- There are two forms of most-favored-nation treatment:conditional and unconditional.最惠国待遇有两种形式:有条件的和无条件的。
- So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结，就不必惧怕外来侵略。
- Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。
- 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。
- The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. 全世界等待伊拉克解除武装已有12年之久。
- He has rejected every peaceful opportunity offered to him to disarm.他已经拒绝了所有能和平缴械的机会。
- Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
- The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
- A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
- She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。