以色列擬阻礙聯合國調查定居點建設

Israel intends to block a United Nations mission to investigate settlement activity in the occupied territories.

以色列試圖阻礙聯合國對猶太人在所佔領的領土上修建定居點的活動進行調查。

Israel says it will not cooperate with a fact-finding mission of the United Nations Human Rights Council which plans to investigate the effects of Jewish settlements on the civil rights of Palestinians.

以色列說，他們不會與聯合國人權委員會一個事實調查小組合作。聯合國指派的這個小組計劃在猶太人定居點調查巴勒斯坦人獲得公民權利的狀況。

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told Israel Radio that the Israeli government will not allow the U.N. delegation to enter the country.

以色列副外長阿亞隆對以色列電臺說，以色列政府不會允許聯合國代表團進入這個國家。

Ayalon said the U.N. council is supposed to protect human rights, but he said this is a “political mission” to condemn Israel and the outcome is known in advance.

阿亞隆說，聯合國人權委員會原本應該保護人權，而這個計劃是一次政治使命，爲的是譴責以色列，結果在事先就已經路人皆知了。

At the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Israeli officials expressed outrage at the Palestinian Authority, which sponsored the initiative at the U.N.

在耶路撒冷每週一次的內閣會議上，以色列官員對巴勒斯坦當局表達了憤怒之情，因爲是巴勒斯坦當局在聯合國首先提出了這項請求。

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said that if the Palestinians wage diplomatic warfare on Israel, it could result in economic sanctions.

財政部部長斯坦尼茨說，如果巴勒斯坦人向以色列發動外交戰，其結果可能導致對巴勒斯坦方面的經濟制裁。

Israel is considering a tough measure it has imposed in the past: withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority.

以色列正在考慮一項過去實施過的嚴厲手段來對付巴勒斯坦，那就是扣押屬於巴勒斯坦當局的數億美元的稅款。The Palestinians say United Nations action is necessary because Israeli settlement policy in the West Bank is destroying the prospects for a two-state solution.

巴勒斯坦人說，聯合國的行動是必要的，因爲以色列在約旦河西岸的定居點政策正在斷送兩個國家解決方案的前程。

“Israel is undermining chances for peace and for the resumption of negotiations. Israel has to freeze settlements in order for fruitful, constructive, negotiations to be resumed,” Riyad al-Maliki, Palestinian Foreign Minister.

巴勒斯坦權力機構外長阿爾-馬利基說：“以色列在破壞和平的機會，破壞恢復和談的可能性。以色列必須凍結定居點建設，以便能夠恢復富有成果、具有建設性的和平談判。”

Israel rejects Palestinian demands for a settlement freeze and says peace talks should resume without pre-conditions. International mediators have failed to bridge the gaps, and the dispute over the U.N. mission has only reinforced a three-year deadlock in the peace process.

以色列拒絕巴勒斯坦有關停止興建猶太人定居點建設的提議，說恢復和平談判應該無條件地舉行。國際調停各方都無法調解通以巴之間的分歧，這次針對聯合國調查任務的爭論，對停滯了三年的和平進程談判僵局更是雪上加霜。