以色列接受中东四方恢复和谈建议

The Quartet proposal says peace talks should resume without preconditions. But the Palestinians say a Quartet reference to the "Roadmap" peace plan of 2003 backs their key condition for resuming negotiations: a freeze on all Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

中东问题四方集团的建议说，和谈应当在没有预设条件的情况下恢复。可是，巴勒斯坦人说，中东问题四方集团提到的2003年和平计划路线图支持他们提出恢复和谈的一个关键条件，那就是：在约旦河西岸和东耶路撒冷冻结所有以色列定居点建设。

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should keep his commitments under the Roadmap.

巴勒斯坦谈判代表埃雷卡特说，以色列总理内塔尼亚胡应当遵守他基于这个路线图所做的承诺。

“He has an obligation called settlements. It's not a precondition! It's not a precondition; it's an obligation on him to stop settlement activities."

埃雷卡特说：“他有责任取消定居点建设。这并不是预设条件，停止定居点活动是他的责任。”

Israel threw a wrench into peace efforts last week, when it announced plans to build 1,100 new housing units in East Jerusalem, on land Israel annexed after the 1967 war. The Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of a future state. The U.S. and EU criticized the Israeli move. But Israel says all of Jerusalem is its capital, not a settlement, and it can build anywhere in the city.

以色列上周阻挠了中东的和平努力，当时以色列宣布，计划在东耶路撒冷建造1100套新住房，这块土地是以色列在1967年的中东战争后吞并的。巴勒斯坦人想让东耶路撒冷作为将来巴勒斯坦国的首都。美国和欧盟批评了以色列的这一行动。可是，以色列说，整个耶路撒冷都是它的首都，并非只是定居点，以色列可以在这座城市任何地点建造定居点。