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Israeli citizens responded to the election of their new Prime Minister
Ehud Barak. We
heard from Uzi Landau, a member of the defeated Likud Party, from
Fisal Husseini,
a senior Palestinian official and from Yael Dayan, daughter of the
former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan . |
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20th
May 1999
Israeli
Elections - immediate responses
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major consideration now should be to put the country back in
unity, to bridge gaps between left and right, between
religious and unreligious, and between the different sectors
of ethnic groups in the country. It is going to be tough. It is very
easy, on the one hand, to just give in very quickly and be
just loved by Clinton, by Britain, by France, by everybody.
But if we really wish to have your peace it means tough negotiations
and standing on
our security interests.
(Uzi
Landau)
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major
consideration: a formal choice of language
meaning 'important things to think about'
bridge the gaps:
an informal way of expressing a method of achieving unity
religious and unreligious:
notice how the opposite adjective is achieved here by the prefix
'un'
on the one hand...but:
Mr Landau uses this structure to indicate that opposing views are
about to be expressed
by Clinton, by Britain
by France, by everybody: Mr Landau uses a rhetorical device
- a list - to stress his point
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I hope that he will stop all these activities, unilateral
activities concerning the permanent status of negotiations, stop
building settlements, stop confiscating
land and changing the reality in Jerusalem. (Fisal
Husseini) |
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stop: Mr Husseini
repeats the word 'stop' three times for emphasis
unilateral: an
unilateral decision is carried out by only one of the groups involved
confiscating:
if you confiscate something from someone you take it away from them
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It's
not an earthquake, it's a sunrise. We're certainly going
to accelerate towards peace and recovery from the terrible three years
of Netanyahu and we've got a lot of catching up to do.
(Yael Dayan) |
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earthquake...sunrise:
notice here Ms. Dayan's optimistic comparison
catching up: here,
extra work must be done to re-establish the pace of the negotiations
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