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INTRO | | Israeli citizens responded to the election of their new Prime Minister Ehud Barak. We heard from Uzi Landau, a member of the defeated Likud Party, from Fisal Husseini, a senior Palestinian official and from Yael Dayan, daughter of the former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan . |
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20th May 1999
Israeli Elections - immediate responses |
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| NEWS 1 | | A major consideration now should be to put the country back in unity, to bridge gapsbetween left and right, between religious and unreligious, and between the different sectors of ethnic groups in the country. It is going to be tough. It is very easy, on the one hand, to just give in very quickly and be just loved by Clinton, by Britain, by France, by everybody. But if we really wish to have your peace it means tough negotiations and standing on our security interests.(Uzi Landau) |
WORDS | | major consideration: a formal choice of language meaning 'important things to think about' bridge the gaps: an informal way of expressing a method of achieving unity religious and unreligious: notice how the opposite adjective is achieved here by the prefix 'un' on the one hand...but: Mr Landau uses this structure to indicate that opposing views are about to be expressed by Clinton, by Britain by France, by everybody: Mr Landau uses a rhetorical device - a list - to stress his point |
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| NEWS 2 | | First I hope that he will stop all these activities, unilateral activities concerning the permanent status of negotiations, stop building settlements, stopconfiscating land and changing the reality in Jerusalem. (Fisal Husseini) |
| WORDS | | stop: Mr Husseini repeats the word 'stop' three times for emphasis unilateral: an unilateral decision is carried out by only one of the groups involved confiscating: if you confiscate something from someone you take it away from them |
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| NEWS 3 | | It's not an earthquake, it's a sunrise. We're certainly going to accelerate towards peace and recovery from the terrible three years of Netanyahu and we've got a lot of catching up to do. (Yael Dayan) |
| WORDS | | earthquake...sunrise: notice here Ms. Dayan's optimistic comparison catching up: here, extra work must be done to re-establish the pace of the negotiations |
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