US: Israel's national heritage plan 'provocative'
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:38:18 GMT
A general view of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron Al-Khali西岸城市希伯倫哈利的始祖墓的普通觀景
The US has bashed Israel for jeopardizing the Middle East peace process by designating two shrines in the occupied West Bank as Israeli "national heritage sites."
美國已痛擊以色列，因危害中東和平進程，指定兩所在被佔領的西岸的神社，作以色列“國家遺產地點。”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that Tel Aviv was planning to include Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron Al-Khalil in a "national heritage plan."
以色列總理內塔尼亞胡週日宣布，特拉維夫正計劃包括在伯利恆的拉結墓和在希伯倫哈利勒的始祖墓納入“民族遺產計劃。”
US State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Wednesday said Washington viewed the move as provocative and unhelpful to the goal of getting the two sides back to the negotiation table.
美國國務院發言人馬克鄧立週三表示，華盛頓視此舉為挑撥和無助使雙方回到談判桌上的目標。
Toner said Washington had conveyed its displeasure with the move to senior Israeli officials.
鄧立說，華盛頓已將它的不滿，以行動傳達到以色列的高級官員。
The recent move further fanned up tensions between Tel Aviv and the Palestinians, which have conditioned any peace talks on a permanent freeze on all Israeli settlement construction activities in the occupied West Bank, including the illegally annexed East Jerusalem Al-Quds and a return to the borders of 1967.
The designation of the holy sites in the occupied territories enraged the Palestinians and drew protests from Jordan, Syria and Egypt as well as the United Nations, which urged Israel to avoid moves that would further distance Palestinians and Israelis and hurt prospects for peace talks.
The controversial plan prompted Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to call for uprisings in the occupied West Bank against the move which he said "aims to erase our identity, alter our Islamic monuments and steal our history."
"The decision requires a real response in the West Bank and for the people to rise up in the face of the Israeli occupation and to break every shackle in confronting it," he said on Tuesday.
In Ramallah, Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas also condemned the decision as "a serious provocation which may lead to a religious war."
Al-Khalil was the scene of sporadic clashes between the Israeli troops and Palestinians near the Ibrahim Mosque above the Tomb of the Patriarchs while in Bethlehem shops and schools were closed Tuesday in a day-long general strike.
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