2006年VOA标准英语-Hamas Says it Will Form New Palestinian Go

By Jim Teeple
Jerusalem
05 February 2006

 
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh 
  
Leaders of the Islamic militant¹ group Hamas say they plan to form a new Palestinian government by the end of February.  The news comes as Israeli air strikes killed three Palestinian militants² on Sunday and a Palestinian stabbed four Israelis, killing³ one. 

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Hamas leaders say they will form the next Palestinian government after a new Parliament convenes⁵ on February 16.  The announcement came following talks between senior Hamas leaders and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the Gaza Strip.  

Hamas won 74 seats in the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative⁶ Council in Palestinian elections on January 25, soundly defeating Mr. Abbas' Fatah Party. 

Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip says Hamas will work quickly to form the new government. 

Haniyeh says Hamas will seek to avoid any constitutional vacuum and move quickly to assert its authority over a new government.  He says Hamas will also take control of Palestinian security forces.  Haniyeh says Hamas has asked Mr. Abbas' Fatah Party to join the new government but had received no response.  The Hamas leader also says Hamas will not negotiate with Israel under any conditions.

Since their election win, Hamas leaders have repeated their position that they will not recognize Israel or disarm⁷ but would consider a long-term truce⁸ with Israel. 

Israeli officials say Hamas must recognize Israel's right to exist and give up terrorism.  International donors⁹ to the Palestinian Authority such as the United States and the European Union have classified Hamas as a terrorist organization and have said they will not be able to work with any Hamas government. 

Mr. Abbas, who was elected separately last year as president says even though parliament will convene⁴ on February 16, it will take time to form a new government. 

The Palestinian president says new committees to run various aspects of the Palestinian Authority will have to be formed and the whole job will be a major undertaking¹⁰. 

Meanwhile, Israel carried out air and artillery¹¹ strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. In one attack Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a car leaving a building in the northern Gaza Strip, killing three men linked to the al-Aqsa Martyrs¹² Brigade, a militant offshoot of President Abbas' Fatah Party. Israeli officials say the attack was in response to a missile attack on southern Israel by the group which destroyed a house and wounded two adults and an infant. Israeli artillery and warplanes also targeted sites near the northern Gaza town of Beit Haanoun that Israeli officials say were being used as sites to launch missiles into southern Israel.  

In another incident, a Palestinian man went on a stabbing rampage on board a mini-bus near Tel Aviv on Sunday, killing one woman and wounding at least five others.  Police say the man entered Israel from the West Bank and that the attack was politically motivated.

1 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• 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。

2 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• 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。

3 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

4 convene   

v.集合，召集，召唤，聚集，集合

参考例句：

• The Diet will convene at 3p.m. tomorrow.国会将于明天下午三点钟开会。
• Senior officials convened in October 1991 in London.1991年10月，高级官员在伦敦会齐。

5 convenes   

召开( convene的第三人称单数 )； 召集； （为正式会议而）聚集； 集合

参考例句：

• The Premier convenes and presides over the executive meetings and plenary meetings of the State Council. 总理召集和主持国务院常务会议和国务院全体会议。 来自汉英非文学 - 中国宪法
• Chinese woman tenth the National People Congress convenes grandly today in Beijing. 中国妇女第十次全国代表大会今天在北京隆重召开。

6 legislative   

n.立法机构，立法权；adj.立法的，有立法权的

参考例句：

• Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
• Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。

7 disarm   

v.解除武装，回复平常的编制，缓和

参考例句：

• 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。

8 truce   

n.休战，(争执，烦恼等的)缓和；v.以停战结束

参考例句：

• 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。

9 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 undertaking   

n.保证，许诺，事业

参考例句：

• He gave her an undertaking that he would pay the money back with in a year.他向她做了一年内还钱的保证。
• He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.他太胆小，不敢从事任何事业。

11 artillery   

n.(军)火炮，大炮；炮兵(部队)

参考例句：

• This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
• The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。

12 martyrs   

n.martyr的复数形式；烈士( martyr的名词复数 )；殉道者；殉教者；乞怜者（向人诉苦以博取同情）

参考例句：

• the early Christian martyrs 早期基督教殉道者
• They paid their respects to the revolutionary martyrs. 他们向革命烈士致哀。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》