For too long the conflict in Palestine was a hostage to the cold war.

长期以来，巴勒斯坦的冲突成了冷战的人质。

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The news that arrives every day from the Middle East wounds us like the blows of a war that enters our lives, cancelling out the distance which separates us from Israel, Palestine and Lebanon.

每日所听到的关于中东的消息，就象侵入我们生活的突来的战争一样伤害了我们，也拉进了我们与以色列，巴基斯坦和黎巴嫩的距离。

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But right now it is not even talking to Hamas—and Hamas, after the Lebanon war, is in danger of subscribing anew to the old illusion that Palestine can be liberated by force.

可现在以色列甚至不愿意与哈马斯谈判。而对于哈马斯而言，在黎巴嫩冲突之后，很有可能再次做起能通过武力解放巴勒斯坦的美梦。

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Some of the Arab refugees who fled Palestine during the war reported fearing not only the Jewish forces, but also being branded collaborators by the mufti if they stayed.

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Richard Meinertzhagen, who served as an intelligence officer in wartime and post-World War I Mandatory Palestine, made this point clearly in his memoir Middle East Diary.

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They all disappeared March 25 -- last Tuesday -- from the Palestine Hotel, which is housing many of the visiting journalists covering the war from Baghdad.

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