2007年VOA标准英语-Israeli Police Remove Settlers From West Bank O

By Jim Teeple
Jerusalem
28 March 2007

Israeli police have removed about 400 Jewish settlers from a former West Bank settlement.  VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem, the settlement had been abandoned nearly two years ago as part of the Gaza disengagement plan.  Israeli riot police dragged defiant² settlers from the Homesh outpost ending a three-day standoff between the settlers and the Israeli government. 

 
Jewish settlers lock arms as they sit on the ground before being forcibly removed by Israeli police from evacuated³ settlement of Homesh, in the northern West Bank,  28 Mar¹ 2007
During the past few days, more than a thousand settlers and their supporters had gathered at Homesh in the northern West Bank - one of four West Bank settlements dismantled⁵ by Israel in 2005 as part of the Gaza disengagement plan.  The settlers say they will return to rebuild the outpost. 

Alisa Hertz of the Yesha Settlers Council, a group that works to support Jewish settlements in the West Bank, says demonstrations⁶ like the one at Homesh help the settler cause.

"I think they help to strengthen Israel.  I think it bolsters⁷ the morale⁸ of people in Israel to realize that we have a right to be here in all of Israel," Hertz said. "It shows that places that are wrested⁹ away from us, that are taken away from us, that it is important to go back and make it part of the education of our young, and generations to come. That this country is our country."

 
Israeli Jewish settlers pray after marching to the evacuated settlement of Homesh, in the northern West Bank, 26 Mar 2007
Israel pledged to freeze settlement activity in 2003 as part of the road map peace plan that pledges Israel to stop building settlements and Palestinians to stop attacking Israelis. 

Speaking earlier this week, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said under no circumstances would settlers be allowed to reoccupy settlements in the West Bank that Israel had withdrawn¹⁰ from.

"We have no intention of reoccupying settlements that were disengaged as part the disengagement that took place at the end of 2005," Olmert says. "We certainly are committed to carry out the Israeli promise to dismantle⁴ the unauthorized outposts.  So we are currently not now in the process of creating new unauthorized outposts at a time when we want to dismantle the existing unauthorized outposts."

Jewish settlers have built dozens of unauthorized outposts in the West Bank over the past decade, considered by Israel to be separate from the officially-backed Israeli settlements that receive government support. 

Prime Minister Olmert was overwhelmingly elected last year on a platform to disengage from large parts of the West Bank, while keeping major settlements near Israel's West Bank border that house the majority of the 270,000 Israelis who live in the West Bank, among more than 2.5 million Palestinians. 

But that plan has been put on hold as the prime minister's popularity has sunk following Israel's war in Lebanon last summer, and growing Israeli anger over Palestinian militancy¹¹, and rocket fire from the Gaza Strip hitting southern Israeli towns.

1 mar   

vt.破坏，毁坏，弄糟

参考例句：

• It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
• Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。

2 defiant   

adj.无礼的，挑战的

参考例句：

• With a last defiant gesture,they sang a revolutionary song as they were led away to prison.他们被带走投入监狱时，仍以最后的反抗姿态唱起了一支革命歌曲。
• He assumed a defiant attitude toward his employer.他对雇主采取挑衅的态度。

3 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

4 dismantle   

vt.拆开，拆卸；废除，取消

参考例句：

• He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.他请求美国立即提供援助，拆除这批弹头。
• The mower firmly refused to mow,so I decided to dismantle it.修完后割草机还是纹丝不动，于是，我决定把它拆开。

5 dismantled   

拆开( dismantle的过去式和过去分词 )； 拆卸； 废除； 取消

参考例句：

• The plant was dismantled of all its equipment and furniture. 这家工厂的设备和家具全被拆除了。
• The Japanese empire was quickly dismantled. 日本帝国很快被打垮了。

6 demonstrations   

证明( demonstration的名词复数 )； 表明； 表达； 游行示威

参考例句：

• Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
• The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。

7 bolsters   

n.长枕( bolster的名词复数 )；垫子；衬垫；支持物v.支持( bolster的第三人称单数 )；支撑；给予必要的支持；援助

参考例句：

• He used a couple of bolsters to elevate his head. 他用两个垫枕垫头。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The double-row piles with both inclined and horizontal bolsters also analyzed in consideration of staged excavation. 本文亦分析了考虑开挖过程的安置斜撑与带支撑的双排桩支护结构。 来自互联网

8 morale   

n.道德准则，士气，斗志

参考例句：

• The morale of the enemy troops is sinking lower every day.敌军的士气日益低落。
• He tried to bolster up their morale.他尽力鼓舞他们的士气。

9 wrested   

（用力）拧( wrest的过去式和过去分词 )； 费力取得； （从…）攫取； （ 从… ） 强行取去…

参考例句：

• The usurper wrested the power from the king. 篡位者从国王手里夺取了权力。
• But now it was all wrested from him. 可是现在，他却被剥夺了这一切。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

10 withdrawn   

vt.收回；使退出；vi.撤退，退出

参考例句：

• Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
• All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。

11 militancy   

n.warlike behavior or tendency

参考例句：

• Full of militancy and revolutionary ardour, the people of all nationalities in the country are working hard for the realization of the four modernizations. 全国各族人民意气风发， 斗志昂扬，为实现四个现代化而奋战。
• The seniority system is another factor that leads to union militancy. 排资论辈制度也是导致工会好斗争的另一因素。