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JUDY WOODRUFF: This morning in Jerusalem, senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat died after a month-long battle with COVID-19. Long a fixture of Palestinian politics, Erekat led peace talks with the Israelis for nearly three decades. Nick Schifrin has this look at his life.
NICK SCHIFRIN: For decades, Saeb Erekat embodied Palestinian diplomacy and Palestinian hopes.
SAEB EREKAT, Chief Palestinian Negotiator: The only way to have peace in this region is to solve the Palestinian question, is to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is to end the Israeli occupation.
NICK SCHIFRIN: His career was defined by the negotiations he helped lead, in the '90s, for the Oslo accords that removed Israeli soldiers from parts of the West Bank.
SAEB EREKAT: Once they leave our towns, villages and refugee camps in the first stage, there is no way back.
NICK SCHIFRIN: In 2000, next to former PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat at Camp David, and, in 2014, during the last round of peace talks. In 2007, he spoke to Gwen Ifill.
SAEB EREKAT: What needs to be restored in the minds of Palestinians and Israelis today is the hope.
AARON DAVID MILLER, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars: He played the role that he was given, believed in it deeply, and thought about peace and the possibility of a better future as more than just a thought experiment. It was something he devoted his life to.
NICK SCHIFRIN: Aaron David Miller worked on Middle East peace across six administrations. He says Erekat was constrained by Arafat and, more recently, by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, but Erekat always believed in a negotiated solution.
AARON DAVID MILLER: He never surrendered to the forces of history, which, of course, if they could speak to us, would basically say there'll never be a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He deeply believed, I think, in the forces of diplomacy.
NICK SCHIFRIN: Erekat was a longtime proponent of two states and a longtime critic of Israeli occupation.
NOUR ODEH, Former Palestinian Government Spokesperson: Saeb's name has been synonymous with negotiations and all that comes with it, the trials, the tribulations, the failings.
NICK SCHIFRIN: Nour Odeh is a political analyst in Ramallah. She praises Erekat, but says young Palestinians question the diplomacy he was committed to.
NOUR ODEH: After a certain point, there was an obsession with the process, rather than the end results of what that process should have delivered. And the sentiment is that that process ended up being a cover for everything that was happening on the ground, which was literally undoing the possibility of two states.
NICK SCHIFRIN: Most recently, Erekat executed Abbas' decision to cut off negotiations with the Trump administration after the U.S. moved its embassy to Jerusalem, and he rejected the administration's peace plan, unveiled last year.
SAEB EREKAT: This is not a plan of peace. This is a scandal and the fraud of the century.
NICK SCHIFRIN: Erekat never backed down from advocating what Palestinians believed they deserved. Some Israelis found him obstructionist. Many respected his intelligence.
He never stopped working with, and befriending, Israelis he negotiated against, including longtime negotiator Yossi Beilin.
YOSSI BEILIN, Former Israeli Negotiator: He proved to all of us, and I believe that also to the world, that the myth that we don't have partners is totally, totally wrong.
NICK SCHIFRIN: Erekat contracted COVID last month, and died this morning in this Jerusalem hospital, his diplomacy and his dreams unfulfilled. Saeb Erekat was 65 years old. For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Nick Schifrin.
重点解析
1.surrender to 投降、妥协
Depression is a partial surrender to death
沮丧是对死亡的一定妥协。
2.on the ground 当场
There is frost on the ground and snow is forecast
地上结霜了，而且预报说会有雪。
3.cut off 切断
They were almost completely cut off from the outside world.
他们几乎完全与外界绝缘了。
4.obsession with 痴迷
This untutored mathematician had an obsession with numbers
这位非科班出身的数学家对数字特别痴迷。
5.refugee camp 难民营
Troops tried to set up a lookout post inside a refugee camp.
部队试图在难民营里设一个瞭望哨。
参考译文
朱迪·伍德拉夫：今天上午在耶路撒冷，巴勒斯坦高级官员塞布·埃雷卡特在与科维德-19型战机进行了一个月的战斗后死亡。长期以来，埃雷卡特一直是巴勒斯坦政坛的常客，他领导了近30年与以色列的和平谈判。尼克·希夫林对他的生活有这样的看法。
尼克·希夫林：几十年来，塞布·埃雷卡特体现了巴勒斯坦的外交和巴勒斯坦的希望。巴勒斯坦首席谈判代表埃雷卡特：解决巴勒斯坦问题是该地区实现和平的唯一途径，就是解决巴以冲突，就是结束以色列的占领。
尼克·席夫林：他的职业生涯是由他在90年代帮助领导的谈判决定的，因为奥斯陆协议把以色列士兵从西岸部分地区赶走。
埃雷卡特：一旦他们在第一阶段离开我们的城镇、村庄和难民营，就没有退路了。
尼克·希夫林：2000年，在戴维营，在巴解组织前主席亚西尔·阿拉法特旁边，在2014年，在上一轮和谈期间。2007年，他与格温·伊菲尔交谈。
埃雷卡特：今天巴勒斯坦人和以色列人需要恢复的是希望。伍德罗·威尔逊国际学者中心公共政策学者亚伦·大卫·米勒：他扮演了他被赋予的角色，对这个角色深信不疑，把和平和美好未来的可能性想象成不仅仅是一个思想实验。这是他毕生致力于的事情。
尼克·席夫林：亚伦·大卫·米勒在六届政府中致力于中东和平。他说埃雷卡特受到阿拉法特的限制，最近，被巴勒斯坦权力机构主席阿巴斯，但埃雷卡特一直相信通过谈判解决问题。
亚伦·大卫·米勒：他从未向历史的力量投降，当然，如果他们能和我们对话，基本上会说，巴以冲突永远不会有解决方案。我认为，他深信外交力量。
尼克·希夫林：埃雷卡特是两个国家的长期支持者，也是以色列占领的长期批评者。前巴勒斯坦政府发言人诺尔·奥德：萨伊布的名字一直是谈判和随之而来的一切、考验、磨难和失败的代名词。
尼克·希夫林：诺尔·奥德是拉马拉的政治分析家。她称赞埃雷卡特，但说巴勒斯坦年轻人质疑他所致力于的外交。
诺尔·奥德：在某一点之后，人们对这个过程产生了痴迷，而不是这个过程本应交付的最终结果。人们的情绪是，这个过程最终掩盖了当地发生的一切，这实际上是在破坏两个国家的可能性。
尼克·席夫林：最近，埃雷卡特执行了阿巴斯在美国总统大选后中断与特朗普政府谈判的决定。他拒绝了政府去年公布的和平计划。
埃雷卡特：这不是一个和平计划。这是一个世纪的丑闻和欺诈。
尼克·席夫林：埃雷卡特从未放弃主张巴勒斯坦人认为他们应得的东西。一些以色列人发现他是个阻挠者。许多人尊重他的智慧。他从未停止与他谈判反对的以色列人，包括长期谈判代表尤西·贝林合作和交友。以色列前谈判代表贝林：他向我们所有人证明了这一点，我相信也向全世界证明了这一点，我们没有伴侣的神话是完全错误的。
尼克·希夫林：埃雷卡特上个月感染了新冠病毒，今天早上在耶路撒冷的一家医院去世，他的外交和他的梦想没有实现。塞布·埃雷卡特65岁。这是PBS新闻一小时，我是尼克·希夫林。
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