旅行中遇见从巴西来的一家犹太人,极其善良有修养,对以巴前途担忧。听他们讲,犹太人、阿拉伯人其实在加沙等地相处得蛮好的,全都是这群政治疯子搞得世界不太平。
JERUSALEM, Jan. 5 - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon lay in a deep coma Thursday night as Israelis focused on a future - and their future relations with the Palestinians - without him in power.
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Visitors to the Western Wall in Jerusalem offered prayers Thursday for Mr. Sharon, who was in an induced coma after suffering a stroke.
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Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert presided over a special cabinet meeting Thursay. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s seat was left empty.
Mr. Sharon's deputy, Ehud Olmert, named acting prime minister, held a special, somber session of the cabinet while Mr. Sharon lay unconscious in an intensive care unit after nearly nine hours of surgery following a massive stroke he suffered on Wednesday night. Mr. Sharon's chair, at the center of the long cabinet table, was left empty. It seemed clear to all that he very likely would never fill it again.
Doctors put Mr. Sharon in "deep sedation" and on a respirator for at least another 48 hours to decrease the pressure in his skull and to lower his blood pressure, said Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, director of the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. He said Mr. Sharon's vital signs were stable and he denied persistent rumors that Mr. Sharon was being kept alive artificially.
Mr. Sharon's stroke presented a sudden test not only for his new centrist party, Kadima, but for the notion that Israel can make further moves - after its withdrawal from Gaza last summer - toward the creation of borders with a future Palestinian state.
It is unclear whether Kadima will prove to be built on a lasting base of policy, bringing together a centrist majority in favor of accommodation with Palestinian aspirations, or to be simply an extension of Mr. Sharon.
Israelis believed Mr. Sharon, a longtime warrior, would provide them security because his main passion in government and out was to keep them safe. They were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on his methods and policies, something they are unlikely to cede to his successor.
Today, most Israelis have lost faith in the political left to make concessions, fearful that it is naïve about Palestinian assurances. The political right opposed the Gaza withdrawal and has vowed to make no more such moves. Mr. Sharon, who came from the right but was joined by members of the left, has been a rare leader able to instill trust and withdraw from occupied territories. He did this through unilateral moves that did not rely on Palestinian cooperation.
Mr. Sharon's political friends and rivals all expressed hopes for his recovery, and suspended campaigning for Israel's March 28 election, which is expected to proceed on schedule. The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said he was "following with great concern any harm that may come" to Mr. Sharon, but he said that the Palestinian elections, scheduled for Jan. 25, should not be delayed. Some Fatah members wanted the Palestinian voting postponed.
At the Israeli cabinet meeting, Mr. Olmert said: "This is a difficult situation, one we are not accustomed to. The strength and might of the state of Israel will be able to handle this."
Tzipi Livni, the justice minister, said, "The message today from the cabinet meeting is that beyond the prayers and hope, the government is functioning."
The big question on Thursday was the future of Kadima. Voters, many of whom had been crossing from old party loyalties to explore new ones, may now return "to natural and familiar campgrounds," as Asher Arian, a political scientist at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Israel Democracy Institute, put it.
For most of his life, Mr. Sharon has not been Israel's most trusted or respected politician. He was known unaffectionately as "the Bulldozer" for his bullishness and lack of subtlety. But in the last few years he shed his reputation as the builder of settlements and became for many Israelis the embodiment of their hopes for a lasting accommodation with a separate Palestinian state.
Israel, with its many political parties aimed at relatively narrow sectors of the population, has rarely been able to create a party with a clear parliamentary majority. Israelis want strong leaders, but the parliamentary system requires coalition building among parties with limited interests.
The problem went to an extreme with Mr. Sharon, who could not even manage a majority in his own Likud Party for pulling Israeli settlers and troops out of Gaza - and who barely mustered a parliamentary majority to do so - even though close to 70 percent of Israelis favored the plan.
"The old system wasn't working," said Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist at Hebrew University, explaining why Israelis responded so enthusiastically to Mr. Sharon when he broke with the right-wingers of Likud and created Kadima, which attracted the centrists in Likud, the security-minded voters of Labor and those who wanted a deal with the Palestinians shorn of religious and ideological fervor.
This seemed like the political realignment toward the center that has been at the heart of every Israeli reformer's dream, but that until now has never lasted.
But without Mr. Sharon at the helm, Kadima now seemed rudderless. In Mr. Olmert, Ms. Livni and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, Kadima has a strong group of former Likud ministers, seasoned by the elder statesman from the Labor Party, Shimon Peres, 82, who can still help persuade floating Labor voters to leave their party and its new, inexperienced leader, Amir Peretz.
- Re: Sharon in Coma; New Party Faces a Crucial Testposted on 01/06/2006
是啊,都是闪米特人嘛,怎么就那么头脑发热呢?我这里要说犹太人
的不是了:自己那么通历史,也知道波斯人在历史上的救难之恩。再
怎么说埃及的不是,摩西与爱伦也是吃埃及救济粮长大的。
还有就是当年的大陆与台湾,甚至中国人,朝鲜南韩人,日本人也有
类似的情形。到了巴西,别人可分不清楚你是哪里人。
巴西有许多日本人的(甚至整个南美),但别人还把他们当中国人。
西班牙的“日本游人”中恐怕有许多中国人吧? - Re: Sharon in Coma; New Party Faces a Crucial Testposted on 01/06/2006
我真希望中东人全休克它五到十年。再看看世界太平不。 - Re: Sharon in Coma; New Party Faces a Crucial Testposted on 01/06/2006
This is a bit far-stretched don't you think? :-) Ancient Persian and ancient Egyptian has little to do with today's Arabs and Egyptians.
xw wrote:
是啊,都是闪米特人嘛,怎么就那么头脑发热呢?我这里要说犹太人
的不是了:自己那么通历史,也知道波斯人在历史上的救难之恩。再
怎么说埃及的不是,摩西与爱伦也是吃埃及救济粮长大的。 - Re: Sharon in Coma; New Party Faces a Crucial Testposted on 01/09/2006
Susan wrote:
This is a bit far-stretched don't you think? :-) Ancient Persian and ancient Egyptian has little to do with today's Arabs and Egyptians.
How about ancient Jewish ?
- Re: Sharon in Coma; New Party Faces a Crucial Testposted on 01/09/2006
It has something to do with ancient Jews but they are irrelevant to today's conflicts in Palestine, that is what I am saying.
xw wrote:
Susan wrote:How about ancient Jewish ?
This is a bit far-stretched don't you think? :-) Ancient Persian and ancient Egyptian has little to do with today's Arabs and Egyptians.
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