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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Israeli PM’s son maligns Muslims on Facebook 以色列總理之子在臉書上中傷穆斯林
◎俞智敏
The Israeli prime minister’s 19-year-old son _ a military spokesman _ posted derisive comments about Arabs and Muslims on his Facebook page, drawing a slap on the wrist from his superiors and focusing new attention on the controversial first family.
以色列總理現年19歲、現為軍方發言人的兒子，曾在臉書網頁上張貼有關阿拉伯人與穆斯林的嘲諷評論，結果不但引來軍方長官的懲戒，更使外界再度把焦點集中在這個爭議不斷的第一家庭身上。
Earlier this year, Yair Netanyahu posted that Muslims "celebrate hate and death," the Haaretz daily newspaper reported recently. In the same post, written after Palestinian assailants entered a West Bank settlement and stabbed five members of an Israeli family to death, he wrote that "terror has a religion and it is Islam."
以色列「國土報」最近報導指出，耶爾今年初曾在臉書上貼文指稱，穆斯林「稱頌憎恨與死亡」。在巴勒斯坦刺客潛入約旦河西岸的猶太屯墾區，刺死一家五口猶太人後，耶爾更在同一條文章裡寫道，「恐怖的宗教正是伊斯蘭」。
The defamatory comments drew an immediate condemnation from the Palestinians, who are skeptical of his father Benjamin Netanyahu’s declared willingness to make the painful concessions necessary to give them a state.
這些誹謗言論立刻引來巴勒斯坦人同聲譴責，巴人原本就對耶爾的父親納坦雅胡宣稱願意做出痛苦讓步、讓巴勒斯坦人建國的說法持懷疑態度。
The prime minister’s office wouldn’t comment on the Facebook reports, referring questions to a lawyer for the Netanyahu family. Attorney David Shimron said the comments were taken out of context, calling them "the cynical use of the words of a teenager, said in anger."
總理辦公室不願對耶爾臉書評論相關報導發表回應，只把所有問題交給代表納坦雅胡家庭的律師代答。律師席姆隆說，這些評語是被斷章取義，他聲稱這些言論是「青少年在憤怒時的嘲諷用語。」
新聞辭典
malign：動詞，指誹謗，中傷，例句︰She has recently been maligned in the gossip columns of several newspapers..（她最近遭到好幾家報紙的八卦專欄惡意中傷。）同義字包括︰defame、vilify及slander等，但malign更強調心存惡意。亦可作形容詞，指惡意的、有害的或惡性的。
a slap on the wrist：非正式用語，指輕微的警告或懲罰，例句︰The judge gave him a slap on the wrist for not wearing his seat belt.（他因為未繫安全帶，遭到法官略施薄懲。）
out of context：片語，指斷章取義、以偏概全，例句︰The papers took my remarks completely out of context.（我說的話完全被這些報紙斷章取義。）
