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Trump¹ Favors Moving U.S. Embassy To Jerusalem, Despite Backlash Fears

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Let's look now at one of President-elect Donald Trump's foreign policy pledges. As a candidate, he said that he would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. He would move the U.S. Embassy there from Tel Aviv. By saying so, Trump is raising what might be the thorniest³ issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the status of Jerusalem. Sometimes it has sparked violence. NPR's Daniel Estrin explains from Jerusalem.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Foreign language spoken).

DANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE⁴: This massive stone building with a big eagle insignia on the front belongs to the U.S. Consulate⁵ General in Jerusalem. Israelis and Palestinians come here to apply for visas. It looks like an embassy. But it isn't because no U.S. administration has officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Israeli-American Eliezer Shapiro says it's time for that to change. He was at the consulate, renewing his passport.

ELIEZER SHAPIRO: If we want any reconciliation⁶ between Israelis and Palestinians, we also have to have our rights recognized here in this country, not just their rights.

ESTRIN: Israel has declared Jerusalem as its eternal capital. But the Palestinians want part of the city for their future capital, based on negotiations⁷. And internationally, countries haven't wanted to take sides on the issue. According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry⁸, no country has its embassy in the city.

In the '90s, Congress voted to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. But Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama all delayed the move. Part of the rationale all these years was not to interfere⁹ with U.S. efforts to broker¹⁰ peace talks. Former Israeli diplomat¹¹ Yaki Dayan says many Israeli diplomats¹² have quietly accepted that to preserve the U.S. role as mediator¹³ in negotiations.

YAKI DAYAN: Israel sees the United States as not only an honest broker but the only broker.

ESTRIN: He said it would undermine U.S. credibility in leading a peace process. In Arab East Jerusalem today, Amin Shweiki sat in his picture-frame store with a Palestinian newspaper spread across his desk and the TV tuned¹⁴ to the news. He says he's been seeing a lot about Trump's plans to move the U.S. embassy. But that's the least of his gripes with the U.S.

AMIN SHWEIKI: I don't care. If they move it, they'll move it. And we believe that American government are against us - against us not as a Palestinian only - as a Muslim.

ESTRIN: That anger is what former Jordanian Foreign Minister Kamel Abu Jaber is concerned with around the region, Trump provoking Arab and Muslim backlash.

KAMEL ABU JABER: That man is a businessman. And he's a realist. And he - I don't think he wants to see anymore flames in the Middle East. It would be just like poking¹⁵ a stick into a beehive.

ESTRIN: Last week, Trump adviser¹⁶ Walid Phares seemed to hint at flexibility¹⁷, saying Trump would create consensus¹⁸ at home before moving the embassy. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Jerusalem.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

3 thorniest   

adj.多刺的( thorny的最高级 )；有刺的；棘手的；多障碍的

参考例句：

• Paradoxically, the thorniest outstanding issue involves Bolivia. 而荒谬可笑的是，最棘手的国家要事却牵涉到了玻利维亚。 来自互联网

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 consulate   

n.领事馆

参考例句：

• The Spanish consulate is the large white building opposite the bank.西班牙领事馆是银行对面的那栋高大的白色建筑物。
• The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。

6 reconciliation   

n.和解，和谐，一致

参考例句：

• He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
• Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。

7 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• 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。

8 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

9 interfere   

v.(in)干涉，干预；(with)妨碍，打扰

参考例句：

• If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话，可能弊多利少。
• When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件，棘手的事情就来了。

10 broker   

n.中间人，经纪人；v.作为中间人来安排

参考例句：

• He baited the broker by promises of higher commissions.他答应给更高的佣金来引诱那位经纪人。
• I'm a real estate broker.我是不动产经纪人。

11 diplomat   

n.外交官，外交家；能交际的人，圆滑的人

参考例句：

• The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话，紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
• He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。

12 diplomats   

n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 )；有手腕的人，善于交际的人

参考例句：

• These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
• The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 mediator   

n.调解人，中介人

参考例句：

• He always takes the role of a mediator in any dispute.他总是在争论中充当调停人的角色。
• He will appear in the role of mediator.他将出演调停者。

14 tuned   

adj.调谐的，已调谐的v.调音( tune的过去式和过去分词 )；调整；（给收音机、电视等）调谐；使协调

参考例句：

• The resort is tuned in to the tastes of young and old alike. 这个度假胜地适合各种口味，老少皆宜。
• The instruments should be tuned up before each performance. 每次演出开始前都应将乐器调好音。 来自《简明英汉词典》

15 poking   

n. 刺，戳，袋 vt. 拨开，刺，戳 vi. 戳，刺，捅，搜索，伸出，行动散慢

参考例句：

• He was poking at the rubbish with his stick. 他正用手杖拨动垃圾。
• He spent his weekends poking around dusty old bookshops. 他周末都泡在布满尘埃的旧书店里。

16 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

17 flexibility   

n.柔韧性，弹性，（光的）折射性，灵活性

参考例句：

• Her great strength lies in her flexibility.她的优势在于她灵活变通。
• The flexibility of a man's muscles will lessen as he becomes old.人老了肌肉的柔韧性将降低。

18 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？