双语新闻：奥巴马呼吁以色列青年继续推动和平进程
Obama urges Israelis to pursue peace with PalestiniansU.S. President Barack Obama urged Israel's young generation to push for ending a decades-long conflict with the Palestinians, assuring the Israeli public that it has the unshakeable U.S. support for making the sweeping changes required to forge a lasting peace.
"Look to a future in which Jews, Muslims and Christians can all live in peace and greater prosperity in this Holy Land," Obama told a crowd of university students in Jerusalem Thursday evening, in a keynote speech culminating his visit to Israel.
"Look to the future that you want for your own children, a future in which a Jewish democratic state is protected and accepted, for this time and for all time," he said, garnering a roaring ovation of approval.
Achieving this goal hinges on realizing the two-state solution, said Obama, who earlier in the day addressed Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
"Given the demographics west of the Jordan River, the only way for Israel to endure and thrive as a Jewish and democratic state is through the realization of an independent and viable Palestine. Given the frustration in the international community, Israel must reverse an undertow of isolation," Obama said.
The only way to "truly protect" the Israeli people, he noted, " is through the absence of war, because no wall is high enough, and no Iron dome is strong enough, to stop every enemy from inflicting harm."
Stressing that Israel has contended with Palestinian factions who resorted to terror, Obama said Israel's security "must be at the center" of a peace agreement, and that peace will only be achieved through negotiations, expressing his belief that Israelis have "a true partner" in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
At the same time, "the Palestinian people's right to self- determination and justice must also be recognized," Obama said, asking his audience to put themselves in the Palestinians' shoes.
"It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own, and lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movement of her parents. It is not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes unpunished. It is not right to prevent Palestinians from farming their lands; to restrict a student's ability to move around the West Bank; or to displace Palestinian families from their home. Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land."
Obama encouraged both Israelis and Palestinians to adopt a proactive approach to peace-making, not rely on politicians to bring about an end to the conflict.
Peace, said the U.S. leader, "must be made among peoples, not just governments. No one step can change overnight what lies in the hearts and minds of millions. But progress with the Palestinians is a powerful way to begin, while sidelining extremists who thrive on conflict and division."
"That is where peace begins," Obama averred.
While Palestinians must recognize that Israel "will be a Jewish state," Obama said that Israelis must recognize that continued settlement activity is "counterproductive to the cause of peace, that an independent Palestine must be viable, that real borders will have to be drawn."
In parallel to stressing the importance of establishing a Palestine, Obama reassured Israelis that the United States will always guarantee their country's survival.
He said the time has come for the Arab world to abandon its rejectionist policies and launch steps toward normalizing relations with the Jewish state, noting "Arab states must adapt to a world that has changed. The days when they could condemn Israel to distract their people from a lack of opportunity are over."
"Make no mistake: those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel's right to exist might as well reject the earth beneath them and the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere," Obama said.
"Today, I want to tell you, particularly the young people, that so long as there is a United States of America, Ah-tem lo lah-vahd, " Obama said in Hebrew, meaning "you are not alone."
Some Israeli pundits have already termed the speech "historic."
"This will not be the same country after this speech," the Ha' aretz newspaper opined. "Not soon. Perhaps not in many years. But an event like this, inspiration like this, does not in the end go to waste. It gives new strength to the world-weary and the habitually trashed."
相关新闻：正在以色列和巴勒斯坦访问的美国总统奥巴马21日在耶路撒冷国际会展中心发表演讲，呼吁以色列年青一代做出努力，继续推动以色列和巴勒斯坦的和平进程。
奥巴马的演讲对象是来自以色列几所大学的数百名学生。在演讲中，奥巴马再次强调维护以色列安全的重要性并重申美国对以色列安全的承诺，但他同时指出，以色列正处于十字路口，以色列人民、特别是年青一代，应当显示出他们追求和平的决心，因为和平是必须的，是公正的，也是可能实现的。
奥巴马说，建立一个独立的、能够生存的巴勒斯坦是以色列获得持久繁荣的唯一途径，巴勒斯坦人的自决权和正义必须得到承认。他强调说，和谈是实现和平的唯一途径，以色列必须与巴勒斯坦和谈，占领和驱逐都不能解决问题。巴勒斯坦人民有权在自己的土地上成为自由的民族。
奥巴马还称赞巴勒斯坦民族权力机构主席阿巴斯和过渡政府总理法耶兹是“真正的和平伙伴”。他重申以巴应该在“两个民族、两个国家”方案基础上进行谈判。他说，以色列必须意识到修建犹太人定居点活动阻碍了和平进程，一个独立的巴勒斯坦必须能够生存，有真正的边界。
奥巴马在演讲中还表示，和平不能仅仅在政府之间达成，还必须在人民之间实现。
奥巴马20日在与以色列总理内塔尼亚胡会谈后举行的联合记者会上说，他此次来访并没有带来新的以巴和平建议，也不会有不切实际的“重大宣布”。他此行主要是来倾听以巴双方、特别是民众对和平的看法。
推动中东和平进程曾是奥巴马在第一个总统任期初期的外交着力点之一。2010年，以巴领导人在美国斡旋下进行了多轮间接谈判，当年9月初重启了中断20个月的直接谈判，但和平进程很快就因为以色列修建犹太人定居点问题陷入僵局。2012年1月，在约旦斡旋下，以巴双方在约旦就重启和谈举行了六轮直接对话，但未取得任何实质成果，以巴直接和谈一直未能启动。
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