VOA双语新闻 Arafat Leaves Mixed Legacy（在线收听）

The leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, died Thursday in France where he was ailing for several days. Mr. Arafat, born August 24, 1929, had devoted his life to establishing a Palestinian homeland. It was a dream he would never realize completely in his lifetime. The leader who was known as a terrorist and a revolutionary.

巴勒斯坦解放组织领导人阿拉法特在巴黎的一家军队医院去世。阿拉法特于1929年8月24日出生，毕生致力于建立巴勒斯坦人的家园。现在，这已经成为他的遗愿。记者回顾了这位被视为恐怖分子，同时又是革命者的巴勒斯坦领导人的一生。

The Israelis condemned him as a terrorist and then negotiated peace with him. Arab leaders sometimes treated him as a statesman, sometimes as a traitor. Palestinians viewed him as a father figure and the leader of their quest for a homeland.

以色列人先是谴责阿拉法特为恐怖分子，而后又与他进行和平谈判。阿拉伯国家领导人有时把他称为政治家，有时候又认为他是个叛徒。在巴勒斯坦人眼里，他是慈父般的人物，是带领他们建立自己家园的领袖。

Yasser Arafat took a giant step toward that dream when he signed an agreement in 1993 for Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and then returned home to Gaza in triumph.

1993年，阿拉法特朝着他的梦想迈出了巨大的一步。他签署了巴勒斯坦人在加沙地带和约旦河西岸自治的协议，然后以胜利的姿态回到了加沙。

The next year, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his achievement, an award he shared with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.

第二年，他为此获得了诺贝尔和平奖。和他同时获得这个奖项的还有以色列总理拉宾和以色列外长佩雷斯。

The Palestinian leader spoke through a translator as he accepted the honor in Oslo, Norway. "Peace will enable us to show our identity to the world, our real identity to the world," he said.

在挪威奥斯陆接受颁奖时，阿拉法特发表了讲话。他说：“和平使得我们可以向全世界展示我们的身份，我们真实的身份。”

Two years later, Mr. Arafat became the first elected president of the Palestinian Authority, the closest he would come to fulfilling his dream of presiding over an independent Palestinian state. Still, he remained convinced there would be a Palestinian state with or without him."We want achievement of the peace of courageous people to end this long suffering in order to build an independent nation having a lot of democracy and caring for its children and where laughter is heard of happy, healthy kids," he said.

两年后，阿拉法特成为巴勒斯坦民族权力机构的第一位经过选举产生的总统。这几乎已经接近实现他的梦想，那就是，统治一个独立的巴勒斯坦国。他坚信，不管有没有他，终将出现一个巴勒斯坦国。阿拉法特说：“我们希望勇敢的人民获得和平，结束这长期的苦难，建立一个独立的国家。在这个国家里，人民拥有许多民主，儿童得到照顾，到处可以听到幸福、健康的孩子们的欢声笑语。”

Mr. Arafat had come a long way since his days as a teenager. His first combat experience against Israel was running weapons for his father and older brother in the 1948 war.

从少年时代起，阿拉法特为了这一天的到来已经长途跋涉了很久。他与以色列人的第一次战斗经历就是在1948年的战争中为父亲和哥哥操作武器。

Yasser Arafat made his first public demand for a Palestinian liberation movement when he was still a student in Cairo in the 1950s. Later, while living in Kuwait, he created the 'Fatah' movement, which became the core of the Palestine Liberation Organization the PLO. He was named PLO leader in 1968 and remained so until his death.

二十世纪五十年代，当阿拉法特还是开罗一名学生的时候，他第一次公开提出要发起巴勒斯坦解放运动。后来，在侨居科威特期间，阿拉法特成立了“法塔赫”运动，成为巴勒斯坦解放组织的中坚力量。1968年，他被任命为巴解组织领导人，一直担任这个职务，直到去世。

In his early years, Yasser Arafat gained a reputation as a ruthless terrorist. By 1988, Mr. Arafat had begun to make the transition to diplomacy. That was when he told the United Nations the P-L-O would recognize Israel as a sovereign state.

阿拉法特早年以冷酷的恐怖分子著称。1988年，阿拉法特改变立场，谋求通过外交途径解决巴勒斯坦问题。当时，阿拉法特对联合国说，巴解组织愿意承认以色列是一个主权国家。

Mr. Arafat's transition was most evident in his approval and support for secret peace talks that led to the Oslo peace accords. He signed the interim agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the White House in 1993, amid high hopes for an end to decades of conflict.

阿拉法特最明显的转变是，他批准并支持举行秘密和平谈判，最后签署了奥斯陆和平协议。1993年，他与以色列总理拉宾在美国白宫签署了临时协议，希望最终结束巴以之间长达几十年的冲突。

Sadly, seven years later, Palestinian and Israeli hopes for peace had deteriorated into an unrelenting cycle of violence. Efforts to revive the peace process faltered.

可悲的是，七年之后，巴勒斯坦和以色列的和平希望不但没有实现，局势反而恶化，转变成了无法缓和的恶性暴力循环。任何恢复和平进程的努力都失败了。

In 2000, U.S. President Bill Clinton brought Mr. Arafat together with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at the U.S. presidential retreat Camp David for one last effort to forge a peace accord that would give the Palestinians statehood and control over the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem. But the Palestinian leader balked at some of the details. He did not take that final step and Mr. Barak backed away from the offer.

2000年，美国总统克林顿在戴维营会晤阿拉法特和以色列总理巴拉克，为达成一项和平协议做最后的努力，这项和平协议将使巴勒斯坦人得以建国，并控制伊斯兰教圣地耶路撒冷。但是阿拉法特拒绝在一些细节上让步。他没有迈出最后的一步，巴拉克也收回了最初的建议。

As a Palestinian uprising surged, Israel blamed Mr. Arafat for not curbing the violence and barred him from leaving his West Bank headquarters. But that final humiliation only increased his popularity among Palestinians despite their complaints about Mr. Arafat's autocratic leadership style. Palestinians have always viewed Yasser Arafat as the father of their struggle for statehood.

巴勒斯坦人发动起义，以色列指责阿拉法特没有制止暴力，禁止他离开在约旦河西岸的总部。但是，这个屈辱反而提高了阿拉法特在巴勒斯坦人中的声望，尽管他们报怨阿拉法特独裁的统治方式。巴勒斯坦人一直把阿拉法特看作是领导他们为建立自己的国家而抗争的父亲。

"Be sure we will continue to be committed to the peace process, to the peace of the brave, and will continue to be, with all the peace lovers," he said.

阿拉法特说：“要确保我们继续致力于和平进程，致力于勇敢人民的和平事业，和所有热爱和平的人民继续努力。”

With his trademark checkered black and white kafiyah and scruffy beard, Yasser Arafat jetted around the world promoting the cause of his people. He survived assassination attempts and a plane crash and managed to bounce back after serious political and military defeats.

戴着他招牌式的白黑格头巾和他的蓬乱的大胡子，阿拉法特在世界各地活动，推动巴勒斯坦人的事业。他在多次暗杀企图中幸存，并且在一次飞机失事中幸免于难。在一次又一次的政治和军事挫败中，他总是能够东山再起。

He surprised many by his decision at the age of 62 to marry his young Christian secretary, Suha. They had a daughter who was born in 1995. Mr. Arafat had always rejected marriage, saying he was married to the Palestinian cause.

在62岁时，他决定和信奉基督教的年轻秘书苏哈结婚，这让很多人感到吃惊。他们的女儿在1995年出生。在此之前，阿拉法特一直拒绝结婚，他说，他已经和巴勒斯坦人民的事业结婚了