ВУЗ:
Составители:
Рубрика:
37
2. Scan the text and find:
1) the sentence, expressing the main idea of the article;
2) the passage, describing the reasons of the current financial
situation in Cyprus;
3) the passage telling about national mentality peculiarities of
ordinary Cypriots;
4) the passage informing about the consequences for the busi-
ness world;
5) the sentence, containing the conclusion.
3. Give a summary of the article.
38
Patriots too
The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent
(Edited by Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin. Foreword by Tom Segev.)
After the collapse of the Camp David peace talks towards the
end of 2000, and the start of the Palestinian intifada, many Israelis
started to articulate a single, strident message: they had offered the Pal-
estinians a priceless gift, and been kicked in the teeth for their pains; so
be it, they would now show the so-and-sos who was master. A substan-
tial majority of voters (twice) elected Ariel Sharon to do just that. But
some disagreed, and a few of those – loyal Israelis all – have packaged
their dissent into a neat volume of short essays and articles written over
the past two years.
What good will it do? asks Tom Segev, an Israeli newspaper
columnist, in his foreword. Israelis have an expression "shoot and cry"
for those who allow things to happen even as they deplore them.
Maybe, he suggests, he and his fellow dissenters are writing for their
own relief, to detach themselves from Israel's "tribal, isolated, emo-
tional and nationalistic mood", and to show future historians that there
were white hats around, even if they couldn't do much about anything.
Listen for instance to Ami Ayalon, once head of the Shin Bet se-
curity service, describing in an interview with Le Monde the wrong-
headedness of current Israeli policy. Freed from American pressure
since September 11
th
– a date that another writer describes as "a Ha-
nukkah miracle" for Israel – the Israeli government ploughs its own
path. But time, Mr Ayalon argues, is not on Israel's side. Demographi-
cally, it benefits the Arabs. Politically it favours the extremists: Hamas,
the militant Islamist movement and the ideological settlers.
He calls, as others do, for withdrawal from the occupied territo-
ries to give the Palestinians the hope of a proper state. Gideon Levy is a
journalist who, like Mr Segev, writes for Haaretz, the newspaper from
which several of these essays are reprinted. Mr Levy questions the wis-
dom of Mr Sharon's onslaught on terrorism, and laments that "We have
again become one nation that speaks with one voice and doesn't ask
questions such as… what is the infrastructure of terrorism if not the
occupation, the despair and the hatred?"
2. Scan the text and find: Patriots too
1) the sentence, expressing the main idea of the article;
2) the passage, describing the reasons of the current financial The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent
(Edited by Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin. Foreword by Tom Segev.)
situation in Cyprus;
3) the passage telling about national mentality peculiarities of After the collapse of the Camp David peace talks towards the
ordinary Cypriots; end of 2000, and the start of the Palestinian intifada, many Israelis
4) the passage informing about the consequences for the busi- started to articulate a single, strident message: they had offered the Pal-
ness world; estinians a priceless gift, and been kicked in the teeth for their pains; so
5) the sentence, containing the conclusion. be it, they would now show the so-and-sos who was master. A substan-
tial majority of voters (twice) elected Ariel Sharon to do just that. But
3. Give a summary of the article. some disagreed, and a few of those – loyal Israelis all – have packaged
their dissent into a neat volume of short essays and articles written over
the past two years.
What good will it do? asks Tom Segev, an Israeli newspaper
columnist, in his foreword. Israelis have an expression "shoot and cry"
for those who allow things to happen even as they deplore them.
Maybe, he suggests, he and his fellow dissenters are writing for their
own relief, to detach themselves from Israel's "tribal, isolated, emo-
tional and nationalistic mood", and to show future historians that there
were white hats around, even if they couldn't do much about anything.
Listen for instance to Ami Ayalon, once head of the Shin Bet se-
curity service, describing in an interview with Le Monde the wrong-
headedness of current Israeli policy. Freed from American pressure
since September 11th – a date that another writer describes as "a Ha-
nukkah miracle" for Israel – the Israeli government ploughs its own
path. But time, Mr Ayalon argues, is not on Israel's side. Demographi-
cally, it benefits the Arabs. Politically it favours the extremists: Hamas,
the militant Islamist movement and the ideological settlers.
He calls, as others do, for withdrawal from the occupied territo-
ries to give the Palestinians the hope of a proper state. Gideon Levy is a
journalist who, like Mr Segev, writes for Haaretz, the newspaper from
which several of these essays are reprinted. Mr Levy questions the wis-
dom of Mr Sharon's onslaught on terrorism, and laments that "We have
again become one nation that speaks with one voice and doesn't ask
questions such as… what is the infrastructure of terrorism if not the
occupation, the despair and the hatred?"
37 38
Страницы
- « первая
- ‹ предыдущая
- …
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- …
- следующая ›
- последняя »
