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By Robert Berger
Jerusalem
28 October 2006
One of the three Palestinian factions1 holding a kidnapped Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip says a solution to the crisis is imminent2, but the ruling Islamic militant3 group Hamas is skeptical4.
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A man looks at a banner of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit placed in protest outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem |
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In a statement, the PRC said the three groups have agreed to a proposal by Egyptian mediators to exchange Shalit for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
It is the first time that any of the groups directly involved in the kidnapping has said a deal is imminent.
Palestinian analyst5 Wadia Abu Nasser says moderate President Mahmoud Abbas has been working behind the scenes to end the crisis.
"The Palestinian president is pressing the Egyptians to make this exchange deal as soon as possible," he said.
But the ruling Islamic militant group Hamas, whose armed wing was also involved in the kidnapping, says that, while progress has been made, a prisoner swap6 is not imminent.
The sticking point appears to be in the timing7. Hamas and its allies say that when they free Shalit, Palestinian prisoners must be released simultaneously8. But Israel says Shalit must be released first, and later, it would free prisoners as a goodwill9 gesture.
Israeli spokeswoman Miri Eisen says Israel cannot be seen as caving in to what she describes as "terrorist blackmail10."
"For us, it's very important that the terrorists who took Shalit are not the ones, who will have a benefit from the fact that they took so, and that we would release the prisoners after that," she said.
Shalit's kidnapping prompted a punishing four-month Israeli offensive in Gaza that has piled further pressure on the Hamas government, already crippled by international sanctions.
But neither side wants to be seen as caving in to the demands of the other. So, despite a flurry of Arab media reports over the past month about an imminent prisoner swap, the deal has remained elusive11.
1 factions | |
组织中的小派别,派系( faction的名词复数 ) | |
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2 imminent | |
adj.即将发生的,临近的,逼近的 | |
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3 militant | |
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士 | |
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4 skeptical | |
adj.怀疑的,多疑的 | |
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5 analyst | |
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家 | |
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6 swap | |
n.交换;vt.交换,用...作交易 | |
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7 timing | |
n.时间安排,时间选择 | |
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8 simultaneously | |
adv.同时发生地,同时进行地 | |
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9 goodwill | |
n.善意,亲善,信誉,声誉 | |
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10 blackmail | |
n.讹诈,敲诈,勒索,胁迫,恫吓 | |
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11 elusive | |
adj.难以表达(捉摸)的;令人困惑的;逃避的 | |
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