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Updated: 2006-02-20 14:02

Hamas nominates Ismail Haniyeh to be Palestinian prime minister

巴勒斯坦伊斯兰抵抗运动(哈马斯)19日宣布,正式提名伊斯梅尔·哈尼亚担任巴勒斯坦自治政府新总理。现年43岁的哈尼亚出生于加沙的一个难民营。青年时期,哈尼亚曾就读于加沙伊斯兰大学,并获得阿拉伯文学学位。作为哈马斯政治领导层的核心成员,哈尼亚相对温和、务实,在哈马斯内部享有很高威望,经常在哈马斯与巴勒斯坦民族权力机构之间进行联络和斡旋。在这次立法委员会选举期间,哈尼亚多次发表声明,淡化暴力色彩。承认以色列和放弃暴力,是美国向哈马斯提出的两个主要条件。哈尼亚在这两个问题上采取什么政策,将为国际社会所关注。

 

Hamas nominates Ismail Haniyeh to be Palestinian prime minister
Ismail Haniyeh, a prominent Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, was nominated Sunday to be Palestinian prime minister.

Ismail Haniyeh, a prominent Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, was nominated Sunday to be Palestinian prime minister.

The militant group announced thenominationin a text message, a day after its members weresworn intothe new Hamas-dominated Palestinian parliament. The nomination was widely expected.

"I pray to god to help me bear the responsibility and serve the Palestinian cause until the Palestinian people are given back their rights," Haniyeh said.

"We will avoid a confrontation (with Fatah) especially as the occupation refuses to acknowledge the Palestinians' rights and refuses to acknowledge the agreements it signed with the Palestinian Authority."

Haniyeh, 46, is seen as a leader of the morepragmaticwing of Hamas.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was expected later Sunday to formally charge Haniyeh with the task of putting together a new cabinet. Haniyeh would then have three weeks to submit a government to Abbas for approval.

On Saturday Abbas told the Palestinian parliament at its swearing-in session that the PA and its new government are committed to all agreements signed with Israel, including the Oslo Accords, and to putting a stop to the anarchy in the PA.

Following Abbas' speech, Aziz Duweik, a senior Hamas leader from Hebron, was elected speaker. In his maiden speech Duweik said, "We at Hamas accept in principle the signed agreements that serve the Palestinian people. I doubt that there will be a constitutional crisis between the new cabinet and parliament and the PA chairman."

A pragmatist Hamas veteran

Born in Gaza's Shati refugee camp, Haniyeh graduated from Gaza City's Islamic University in 1987 with a degree in Arabic literature and became a close associate of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin.

Haniyeh was expelled by Israel to south Lebanon in 1992, returned to Gaza a year later and became the dean of the Islamic University. In 1998, he took charge of Yassin's office.

A pragmatist, he served as a liaison between Hamas and Palestinian Authority, established in 1994 and dominated by the rival Fatah movement.

Herose to prominenceafter Israel's assassinations in 2004 of Yassin and Yassin's successor, Abdel Aziz Rantisi. He has been a member of the political leadership of Hamas since the 1990s.


(Agencies)

 

Vocabulary:
 

nomination:(提名)

pragmatic: dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.(务实的)

rise to prominence: (初露头角)

 

 
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