CNN News:CNN官方解析以-巴冲突

There`s been a lot going on over the summer, including conflicts, plural in the Middle East. One involves Hamas and Israel.

这个夏天发生了很多事情，包括战争，尤以中东地区居多。其中就有哈马斯和以色列。

Hamas is a political party, and what the U.S. and some other countries consider a terrorist group. Hamas controls the Palestinian territory of Gaza. It`s been blamed for firing numerous rockets into Israel. Israel has launched air strikes and a ground operation to destroy Hamas`s secret tunnels. Officials estimate that hundreds of Palestinian militants and even more civilians have been killed. Israel says 64 of its soldiers and three of its civilians have been killed.

哈马斯是一个政党机构，也是美国和其他国家认为的恐怖组织。哈马斯控制着巴勒斯坦领土加沙地区。因向以色列发射无以计数的战火受到广泛指责，以色列为毁掉哈马斯秘密通道对其进行了空袭和地面袭击。据政府相关工作人员估计数百名巴勒斯坦士兵和更多的居民被杀。

The two sides accepted a temporary ceasefire yesterday, but previous ones have fallen apart.

昨天双方决定暂时停火，但是之前所达成的协议都土崩瓦解。

Even seasoned Middle East experts and diplomats I talked to say that crisis in the Middle East now is the worst they`ve ever seen, and one of the reasons is that there are multiple crises happening in the same time.

甚至我和一些经验丰富的中东专家和外交官们进行交谈都表示现在的中东危机比他们之间所见过的更糟糕，其中一个主要原因是多种危机都发生在了同一时间。

Let`s start with Israel and Gaza. This is, of course, a years old, a decades old conflict, but there are new complications. One is, economic desperation inside Gaza, in part because of the economic blockade, the blocking of smuggling tunnels, really no money is coming in there, no trade, and that puts Hamas in a desperate position, which some believe makes it have much less to lose with a military conflict, even when it`s outmatched by Israel.

让我们从以色列和加沙开始分析。这是一个有念头的冲突，但是又发生了些新的不和。一个是加沙内部经济萧条，部分原因来自经济封锁，对走私通道的封锁，没有经济来源，没有交易，这使哈马斯陷入绝望的处境。一些人认为这使得哈马斯减少了许多军事冲突的发生，甚至可以与以色列之间停火。

More broadly, a lot of the traditional mediators in this conflict just don`t have the same influence they used to have in the path. The U.S. With somewhat less involvement in the region than in the past, but also Arab nations, for one, Egypt much less sympathetic to the Hamas cause, same goes for other Arab leaders who in the past might have been much more publicly critical of Israel`s offensive there. This time they haven`t been, because they are so much against Hamas. So, who is going to broker a peace deal? It`s difficult to find mediators who all sides consider trustworthy.

从更大范围来讲，许多传统介质在此次冲突中没有像之前一样产生同样的效果。美国比过去少了干预措施，同样阿拉伯也是，埃及对哈马斯的同情度减少。同样阿拉伯也是，过去可能是为了对以色列进行更多的职责才会对哈马斯表示更多的同情。这一次他们没有，因为他们非常反对哈马斯。所以，谁来负责达成和平协议呢?其实很难找到一个各方都信赖的中间人士。