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2021.08.18 國際新聞導讀-塔利班呼籲公務員回去上班恢復政府運作、伊朗與塔利班會否因什葉派哈札拉族而敵對、以色列約旦關係改善、以色列空襲真主黨在敘利亞哨所，報復將難以避免
2021.08.18 國際新聞導讀-塔利班呼籲公務員回去上班恢復政府運作、伊朗與塔利班會否因什葉派哈札拉族而敵對、以色列約旦關係改善、以色列空襲真主黨在敘利亞哨所，報復將難以避免
伊朗希望塔利班接受阿富汗的“多樣性”
談到阿富汗，伊朗的政策是複雜的。
作者：SETH J. FRANZMAN
2021 年 8 月 17 日 15:40
伊朗外交部長穆罕默德賈瓦德扎里夫上週在德黑蘭會見了塔利班政治領袖毛拉阿卜杜勒加尼巴拉達爾。
（圖片來源：WANA（西亞新聞社）VIA REUTERS）
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當美國計劃離開阿富汗時——同意與塔利班達成協議並放棄阿富汗政府，切斷資金和合同，並在深夜離開軍事崗位——伊朗正在爭取一個更具包容性的阿富汗。雖然美國口頭上支持多樣性，美國駐喀布爾大使館在 6 月份在推特上發布了同性戀驕傲旗幟，但實際上它在一年多前就已經決定離開。但伊朗必須與作為東部鄰國的塔利班打交道——德黑蘭擔心 1990 年代的極端主義會捲土重來。
這對伊朗來說是一個複雜的問題，伊朗歷來尋求保護和培養中東各地的什葉派，有時是為了賦予他們權力，有時是為了輸出其“革命”。但伊斯蘭共和國也有來自哈馬斯等其他團體的極右翼宗教朋友。這是因為伊朗伊斯蘭革命衛隊的世界觀不僅針對什葉派，而且還與該地區的反西方、反以色列和其他分子合作。
一名塔利班成員於 2018 年 6 月 16 日在阿富汗喀布爾舉著一面旗幟。旗幟上寫著：“只有真主，穆罕默德是真主的使者”（圖片來源：REUTERS/MOHAMMAD ISMAIL）
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談到阿富汗，其政策也很複雜。1990 年代，當塔利班在阿富汗惡毒鎮壓哈扎拉什葉派並收容試圖以伊朗為目標的基地組織分子時，伊朗與塔利班和基地組織關係密切。在那些日子裡浮出水面的宗派主義使遜尼派聖戰分子與少數什葉派分子對立起來，在聖戰分子的另一端，他們認為與納粹對猶太人的看法相似的非人類異教徒。例如，伊斯蘭國對什葉派、雅茲迪派和其他人實施了種族滅絕。
當美國在 9/11 之後入侵阿富汗時，伊朗與塔利班的緊張關係發生了變化。德黑蘭是憤世嫉俗和務實的，它曾經很高興接受薩達姆的空軍逃離伊拉克，它歡迎基地組織分子並接待他們。現在伊朗正在註視著塔利班上台，伊朗與他們會面。伊朗與塔利班一致的地方是需要讓美國撤出阿富汗。但它不同意的地方在於塔利班如何對待少數民族。
伊朗的塔斯尼姆通訊社通過強調阿富汗的“種族宗教多樣性”證實了這一點。它希望看到塔利班“按照人民的意願實施其執政方式”。將伊朗親伊朗革命衛隊的媒體聲明誤認為是華盛頓傳出的事情是可以原諒的。“民意”和“多樣性”通常是美國政策和治理的標誌。
伊朗的邏輯不是這種“人民的意志”必須是民主的，而是“伊朗東部鄰國的政治、社會和安全發展的新時代開始了”。據說塔利班可能會形成一個“包容性的政治體系”。但德黑蘭警告說：“塔利班的面孔在該國大多數人民以及世界輿論的眼中都與暴力和極端主義聯繫在一起，這個組織統治阿富汗的歷史並不為公眾所接受。頭腦。”
伊朗承認塔利班有一個新的公關活動試圖改變他們的形象。“儘管塔利班繼續堅持組建‘伊斯蘭酋長國’，但在這段時間裡，他們一再強調需要與內外各方互動、對話和寬容，並試圖增強自己的‘軟實力’。”
伊朗自稱是伊斯蘭共和國，卻擔心一個伊斯蘭酋長國？伊朗希望阿富汗境內與伊朗有聯繫的團體，例如它招募的在敘利亞作戰的什葉派，仍然與德黑蘭有聯繫。它希望看到權力在不同群體之間劃分。“最近幾週，塔利班官員的這種言論有時很實際，因為他們在與政府分子甚至前政府官員打交道時採取了和平行動。”
但伊朗媒體警告稱，對塔利班組建包容性政府的最終政策做出最終判斷還為時過早。“如果它想被本國人民和世界輿論所接受，它只能在實踐中表明，塔利班五年統治（1996-2001）的形象應該被遺忘。”
伊朗似乎對塔利班的勝利表示歡迎，現在正在等待對塔利班言論的未來考驗，看看他們是否已經改變了方式。
Iran wants Taliban to embrace 'diversity' of Afghanistan
When it comes Afghanistan, Iran's policy is complex.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
AUGUST 17, 2021 15:40
IRAN’S FOREIGN MINISTER Mohammad Javad Zarif meets with Taliban political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Tehran last week.
(photo credit: WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY) VIA REUTERS)
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While the US was planning to leave Afghanistan – agreeing to a deal with the Taliban and abandoning the Afghan government, cutting off funding and contracts, and leaving military posts in the dead of night – Iran was angling for a more inclusive Afghanistan. While the US paid lip service to diversity, with the US embassy in Kabul tweeting a Gay Pride flag in June, it had in fact already decided to leave more than a year ago. But Iran must deal with the Taliban as neighbors to the east – and Tehran is concerned that the extremism of the 1990s will return.
This is a complex problem for Iran, which has traditionally sought to protect and cultivate Shi’ites around the Middle East, sometimes to empower them and other times to export its “revolution.” But the Islamic Republic also has far-right religious friends from other groups, such as Hamas. This is because the Iranian IRGC world view isn’t just about Shi’ites, but working with anti-Western, anti-Israel and other elements across the region.
A member of the Taliban holds a flag in Kabul, Afghanistan June 16, 2018. The writing on the flag reads: 'There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah' (credit: REUTERS/MOHAMMAD ISMAIL)
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When it comes to Afghanistan, its policy is also complex. Iran had deep tensions with the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the 1990s when the Taliban were viciously suppressing Hazzara Shi’ites in Afghanistan and hosting Al Qaeda elements who sought to target Iran. The sectarianism bubbling to the surface in those days pitted Sunni jihadists against minority Shi’ites who, at the far end of the jihadist spectrum, they viewed as subhuman infidels similar to the Nazi view of Jews. ISIS, for instance, committed genocide against Shi’ites, Yazidis and others.
Iran’s tensions with the Taliban shifted when America invaded Afghanistan after 9/11. Tehran is cynical and pragmatic, and much as it once was happy to accept Saddam’s air force fleeing from Iraq, it welcomed Al Qaeda elements and hosted them. Now Iran is watching as the Taliban come to power and Iran has met with them. Where Iran agrees with the Taliban is the need to get the US out of Afghanistan. But where it disagrees is in how the Taliban may treat minorities.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency confirms this by highlighting the “ethnic-religious diversity” of Afghanistan. It wants to see the Taliban “implement its way of governing according to the will of the people.” One could be forgiven for mistaking the Iranian pro-IRGC media statements for something that comes out of Washington. “Will of the people” and “diversity” are usually the hallmarks of US policy and governance.
IRAN'S LOGIC is not that this “will of the people” needs to be democracy, but rather that “a new era of political, social and security developments in Iran's eastern neighbor began.” It is saying that the Taliban may form an “inclusive political system.” But Tehran cautions: “The face of the Taliban is associated with violence and extremism in the eyes of most of the people of this country as well as the world public opinion, and the history of this group's rule over Afghanistan is not desirable in the public mind.”
Iran acknowledges that the Taliban have a new public relations campaign trying to change their image. “Although the Taliban continue to insist on the formation of an ‘Islamic Emirate’, during this time they have repeatedly stressed the need for interaction, dialogue and tolerance with internal and external parties and are trying to increase their ‘soft power.’”
Iran, which proclaims itself an Islamic Republic, is concerned about an Islamic Emirate? Iran wants groups in Afghanistan that are linked to Iran, such as Shi’ites it has recruited to fight in Syria, to still have connections with Tehran. It wants to see power divided between groups. “Such remarks by Taliban officials have sometimes been practical in recent weeks, as they have acted peacefully in dealing with government elements and even former government officials.”
But Iran’s media cautions that it is too early to make a final judgment on the Taliban's definitive policy of forming an inclusive government. “If it wants to be accepted by its people and the world public opinion, it has no choice but to show in practice that the image of the Taliban's 5-year rule (1996-2001) should be forgotten.”
Iran, which appeared to welcome the Taliban victory, now awaits a future test of the Taliban's discourse to see if they have changed their ways.
塔利班舉行勝利後首次新聞發布會
塔利班表示，他們不希望在勝利後的新聞發布會上出現內部或外部敵人。
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2021 年 8 月 17 日 19:23
2021 年 8 月 16 日，在這張取自社交媒體視頻的靜態圖像中，塔利班揮舞著旗幟穿過阿富汗喀布爾的街道。
（圖片來源：SNAPCHAT/@mr_khaludi /VIA REUTERS）
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在塔利班自奪取震盪市舉行在喀布爾的第一次正式新聞發布會上週二宣布，他們希望與其他國家的和平關係，並會尊重伊斯蘭法律的框架內，婦女的權利。
“我們不想要任何內部或外部敵人，”該運動的主要發言人 Zabihullah Mujahid 說。
穆賈希德說，女性將被允許工作和學習，並且“將在社會中非常活躍，但在伊斯蘭教的框架內”。
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他說，塔利班不會對前士兵和西方支持的政府成員尋求報復，並表示該運動獲得了對前阿富汗政府士兵以及為國際部隊工作的承包商和翻譯人員的特赦。
“沒有人會傷害你，沒有人會敲你的門，”他說。
他說私人媒體在阿富汗可以繼續保持自由和獨立，並補充說塔利班在其文化框架內致力於媒體。
穆賈希德的和解語氣與阿富汗第一副總統阿姆魯拉薩利赫的評論形成鮮明對比，薩利赫宣稱自己是“合法的看守總統”，並發誓他不會向喀布爾的新統治者低頭。
塔利班新聞發布會召開之際，美國和西方盟友在喀布爾機場發生混亂的第二天撤離了外交官和平民，因為迫切希望逃離塔利班的阿富汗人蜂擁而至。
當他們急於從阿富汗撤離外交官和平民時，外國勢力正在評估如何應對當地變化的局勢。
北約秘書長延斯斯托爾滕貝格表示，塔利班應該允許所有想要離開該國的人離開，並補充說北約的目標是幫助在阿富汗建立一個可行的國家。
在喀布爾機場混亂的場面中，美國撤軍受到廣泛批評。德國總統弗蘭克-瓦爾特施泰因邁爾說：“喀布爾機場絕望的畫面讓西方政治蒙羞。”
根據去年達成的美軍撤軍協議，塔利班同意在外國軍隊離開時不攻擊他們。
聯合國發言人在回應新聞發布會時說：“我們需要看看實際發生了什麼。我們需要看到在兌現承諾方面的實際行動。”
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週二，在喀布爾機場的跑道上清除了數千名急於逃離的人後，美國從阿富汗撤離外交官和平民的軍用航班重新啟動。
美國軍隊在周日接管了機場——他們飛出阿富汗的唯一途徑——在他們被美國領導的入侵驅逐 20 年後，激進分子在沒有戰鬥的情況下接管了喀布爾，結束了一周的快速推進.
機場的一名西方安全官員告訴路透社，平民人數已經減少。週一，美國軍隊鳴槍警告以驅散人群，人們緊緊抓住一架美國軍用運輸機滑行準備起飛。
機場的一名外交官說，至少有 12 架軍用航班起飛。飛機原定從澳大利亞和波蘭等國抵達，以接載他們的國民和阿富汗同事。
喬拜登總統表示，他必須在要求美軍無休止地戰鬥或執行其前任共和黨人唐納德特朗普談判達成的撤軍協議之間做出決定。
“我堅決支持我的決定，”拜登說。“20 年後，我艱難地了解到，從來沒有撤軍的好時機。”
甚至他自己的外交官也面臨批評，他將塔利班的接管歸咎於逃離的阿富汗政治領導人及其軍隊不願戰鬥。
Taliban holds first press conference since victory
The Taliban said they do not want internal or external enemies in a press conference following their victory.
By REUTERS
AUGUST 17, 2021 19:23
Taliban waving a flag drive through the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan August 16, 2021 in this still image taken from social media video.
(photo credit: SNAPCHAT/ @ mr_khaludi /VIA REUTERS)
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The Taliban held their first official news conference in Kabul on Tuesday since the shock seizure of the city, declaring they wanted peaceful relations with other countries and would respect the rights of women within the framework of Islamic law.
"We don't want any internal or external enemies," the movement's main spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said.
Mujahid said women would be allowed to work and study and "will be very active in society but within the framework of Islam."
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The Taliban would not seek retribution against former soldiers and members of the Western-backed government, he said, saying the movement was granted an amnesty for former Afghan government soldiers as well as contractors and translators who worked for international forces.
"Nobody is going to harm you, nobody is going to knock on your doors," he said.
He said private media could continue to be free and independent in Afghanistan, adding the Taliban was committed to the media within its cultural framework.
Mujahid's conciliatory tone contrasted sharply with comments by Afghan First Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who declared himself the "legitimate caretaker president" and vowed that he would not bow to Kabul's new rulers.
The Taliban news conference came as the United States and Western allies evacuated diplomats and civilians the day after scenes of chaos at Kabul airport as Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban thronged to the terminal.
As they rush to evacuate diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan, foreign powers are assessing how to respond to the changed situation on the ground.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the Taliban should allow all those who wanted to leave the country to depart, adding that NATO's aim was to help build a viable state in Afghanistan.
There has been widespread criticism of the US withdrawal amid the chaotic scenes at Kabul airport. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said "the images of despair at Kabul airport shame the political West."
Under a US troops withdrawal pact struck last year, the Taliban agreed not to attack foreign forces as they leave.
In response to the press conference, a UN spokesperson said "we will need to see what actually happens. We will need to see acts on the ground in terms of promises kept."
FLIGHTS RESUME
US military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan restarted on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands desperate to flee.
US forces took charge of the airport - their only way to fly out of Afghanistan - on Sunday, as the militants wound up a week of rapid advances by taking over Kabul without a fight, 20 years after they were ousted by a US-led invasion.
The number of civilians had thinned out, a Western security official at the airport told Reuters. On Monday US troops had fired warning shots to disperse crowds and people clung to a US military transport plane as it taxied for take-off.
At least 12 military flights had taken off, a diplomat at the airport said. Planes were due to arrive from countries including Australia and Poland to pick up their nationals and Afghan colleagues.
President Joe Biden said he had to decide between asking US forces to fight endlessly or follow through on a withdrawal agreement negotiated by his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump.
"I stand squarely behind my decision," Biden said. "After 20 years I've learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw US forces."
Facing criticism from even his own diplomats, he blamed the Taliban's takeover on Afghan political leaders who fled and its army's unwillingness to fight.
從喀布爾撤離的努力仍在繼續
荷蘭派另一架飛機協助疏散
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2021 年 8 月 17 日 17:41
2021 年 8 月 16 日，塔利班叛亂分子控制了喀布爾的總統府後，一群人跑向喀布爾機場航站樓，圖片來自社交媒體上的視頻
（圖片來源：Jawad Sukhanyar）
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週二早些時候，在塔利班佔領首都後，喀布爾機場的跑道上清除了數千名急於逃離的人後，撤離外交官和平民的軍事航班恢復了。
荷蘭外交部長西格麗德·卡格週二表示，由於擔心行動時間不多了，荷蘭已向阿富汗派遣了第二架軍用飛機，以幫助從該國撤離人員。
Kaag 說，目的是提取至少近 40 名在荷蘭大使館的阿富汗當地工作人員及其家人，以及翻譯和其他阿富汗人，因為他們為荷蘭或非政府組織工作，他們的生命可能受到塔利班武裝分子的威脅。 .
但 Kaag 表示，目前還不確定有多少人會出來，還有多少時間可以進行手術。“我們將盡一切努力讓那些值得我們保護的人離開”，她在與荷蘭議員的辯論中說。
“但我們無法控制局勢（並且）我們不得不假設我們只有非常有限的時間。嚴峻的現實是人們可能無法到達（喀布爾）機場。”
Kaag 補充說，荷蘭人依靠美國武裝部隊來保護機場，並依靠美國與塔利班的談判來幫助確保那些想要離開阿富汗的人安全通行。
荷蘭軍方周一向阿富汗派遣了首架航班，但由於機場混亂，這架飛機無法降落在喀布爾。
外交部長雅庫布·庫爾哈內克 (Jakub Kulhanek) 表示，與此同時，在塔利班奪取阿富汗控制權後，第二架捷克飛機於週二離開喀布爾，將捷克人和當地工作人員從阿富汗撤離。
捷克共和國周日疏散了 46 名公民和當地工人及其家人。庫爾哈內克說，週二的航班包括該國駐阿富汗大使。
盧森堡週二表示，將與比利時聯合向喀布爾派遣一架軍用飛機，以撤離其公民和盟友。
大公國表示，它與四名盧森堡公民和兩名仍在阿富汗的盧森堡居民保持聯繫。
據比利時媒體週二報導，比利時正在向巴基斯坦首都伊斯蘭堡派遣飛機，從那裡他們將飛往阿富汗，以在塔利班接管該國後疏散該國人民。
五角大樓週二表示，美國軍用飛機和一些民用飛機正在進出喀布爾機場。
美國陸軍少將威廉·泰勒與聯合參謀部表示，到當天結束時，美軍將超過 4,000 人，到目前為止，還沒有與塔利班發生任何敵對互動。
泰勒說，目標是每小時有一個航班從喀布爾起飛。
漢莎航空表示，它正在組織三架特殊航班，將撤離人員從阿富汗帶到法蘭克福，首架客機空客 A340 將於週二晚些時候從塔什幹起飛。
德國航空公司的一位發言人表示，計劃於週三從塔什乾和多哈飛往法蘭克福的另外兩個航班。
在阿富汗首都淪陷到塔利班之後，美軍已經佔領了喀布爾機場，並開始空運外交官和平民。然後，商業航空公司正在從該地區的機場運送撤離人員。
Evacuation efforts from Kabul continue
The Dutch sent another plane to assist with evacuations
By REUTERS
AUGUST 17, 2021 17:41
A horde of people run towards the Kabul Airport Terminal, after Taliban insurgents took control of the presidential palace in Kabul, August 16, 2021, in this still image taken from video obtained from social media
(photo credit: Jawad Sukhanyar)
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Military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians resumed earlier on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands of people desperate to flee after the Taliban seized the capital.
The Netherlands has sent a second military plane to Afghanistan to help evacuate people from the country, fearing time for the operation is running out, Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag said on Tuesday.
Kaag said the aim was to extract at least the almost 40 local Afghan staff at the Dutch Embassy and their families, along with translators and other Afghans whose lives may be in danger from Taliban militants because of their work for the Netherlands or non-governmental organizations.
But Kaag said it was very uncertain how many people would get out and how much time there was for the operation. "We will do everything we can to get those who deserve our protection out", she said in a debate with Dutch members of parliament.
"But we are not in control of the situation (and) we have to assume we only have very limited time. The grim reality is that that people might not be able to reach (Kabul) airport."
Kaag added the Dutch were reliant on US armed forces to protect the airport and on American negotiations with the Taliban to help ensure safe passage for those who want to leave Afghanistan.
The Dutch military sent an initial flight to Afghanistan on Monday, but that plane was unable to land in Kabul due to the chaos at the airport.
Meanwhile, a second Czech plane left Kabul on Tuesday, evacuating Czechs and local staff from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control of the country, Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek said.
The Czech Republic evacuated 46 citizens and local workers and their families on Sunday. Tuesday's flight included the country's ambassador to Afghanistan, Kulhanek said.
Luxembourg said on Tuesday that it would send a military plane to Kabul in a joint move with Belgium to evacuate its citizens and allies.
The Grand Duchy said it was in contact with four Luxembourg citizens and two Luxembourg residents who are still in Afghanistan.
Belgium is sending planes to Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, from where they will fly to Afghanistan to evacuate people in the country after the Taliban takeover, Belgian media reported on Tuesday.
US military flights, along with some civilian aircraft, are flying in and out of Kabul's airport, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
US Army Major General William Taylor, with the Joint Staff, said that there would be more than 4,000 US troops by the end of the day and so far there had not been any hostile interactions with the Taliban.
Taylor said the aim was to have one flight taking off from Kabul per hour.
Lufthansa said it was organizing three special flights to bring evacuees from Afghanistan to Frankfurt, with the first passenger jet, an Airbus A340, to take off from Tashkent later on Tuesday.
Two further flights to Frankfurt, from Tashkent and Doha, are planned for Wednesday, a spokesperson for the German airline said.
US forces have secured Kabul airport and started an airlift to fly out diplomats and civilians after the fall of the Afghan capital to the Taliban. Commercial airlines are then ferrying evacuees on from airports in the region.
伊朗稱其駐喀布爾大使館保持開放
該報告發布之際，許多國家出於對塔利班叛亂分子佔領該市後的安全局勢的擔憂，將其大使館工作人員從喀布爾撤離。
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2021 年 8 月 17 日 14:19
2021 年 8 月 16 日，塔利班叛亂分子控制了喀布爾的總統府後，一群人跑向喀布爾機場航站樓，圖片來自社交媒體上的視頻
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據伊朗官方媒體週二報導，伊朗駐阿富汗首都喀布爾大使館仍然開放並完全活躍，一天前德黑蘭歡迎其主要敵人美國在從阿富汗撤軍時“軍事失敗”。
該報告發布之際，由於擔心塔利班叛亂分子佔領該市後的安全局勢，許多國家從喀布爾撤離了大使館工作人員，促使數千人湧入機場試圖逃離該國。
伊朗什葉派穆斯林長期以來一直是鄰國阿富汗強硬的遜尼派穆斯林塔利班的敵人，但在過去幾年裡，伊朗官員公開會見了塔利班領導人。7 月，德黑蘭主辦了當時的阿富汗政府代表和塔利班高層政治委員會的會議。
昨天，塔利班戰士站在喀布爾內政部外。（信用：路透社）
“伊朗伊斯蘭共和國駐喀布爾大使館是完全開放和活躍的。伊朗在赫拉特的總領事館也開放和活躍，”伊朗外交部發言人賽義德·哈蒂布扎德說，官方通訊社 IRNA 引述道。他沒有詳細說明。
伊朗總統易卜拉欣·賴西周一表示，美國在阿富汗的“軍事失敗”及其撤軍為在飽受戰爭蹂躪的國家建立持久和平提供了機會。
塔利班一名高級官員周二表示，塔利班已命令他們的戰士保持紀律，不得進入任何外交大樓或乾擾大使館車輛。
Khatibzadeh 週日表示，伊朗已減少其在阿富汗城市馬扎里沙裡夫、賈拉拉巴德和坎大哈的領事館的活動。
Iran says its embassy in Kabul remains open
The report came as many countries evacuated their embassy staff from Kabul due to concerns over the security situation after Taliban insurgents seized the city.
By REUTERS
AUGUST 17, 2021 14:19
A horde of people run towards the Kabul Airport Terminal, after Taliban insurgents took control of the presidential palace in Kabul, August 16, 2021, in this still image taken from video obtained from social media
(photo credit: Jawad Sukhanyar)
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Iran's embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul remains open and fully active, state media reported on Tuesday, a day after Tehran welcomed the "military failure" of its arch-foe the United States as it withdraws its forces from Afghanistan.
The report came as many countries evacuated their embassy staff from Kabul due to concerns over the security situation after Taliban insurgents seized the city, prompting thousands of people to throng the airport in an attempt to flee the country.
Shi’ite Muslim Iran has long been a foe of the hardline Sunni Muslim Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan, but in the past few years its officials have openly met Taliban leaders. In July, Tehran hosted a meeting of then-Afghan government representatives and a high-level Taliban political committee.
TALIBAN FIGHTERS stand outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul yesterday. (credit: REUTERS)
"The embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kabul is fully open and active. Iran's consulate general in Herat is also open and active," said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, quoted by the official news agency IRNA. He did not elaborate.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday the "military failure" of the United States in Afghanistan and its withdrawal of forces offered an opportunity to establish lasting peace in the war-ravaged nation.
The Taliban have ordered their fighters to maintain discipline and not to enter any diplomatic buildings or interfere with embassy vehicles, a senior official of the group said on Tuesday.
On Sunday, Khatibzadeh said Iran had wound down activities at its consulates in the Afghan cities of Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad, and Kandahar.
約旦，以色列簽署什米塔年農業協議
“Shmita”是以色列土地每七年休耕一次的聖經誡命，現代以色列大部分地區的猶太農民必須遵守它，才能使他們的產品獲得猶太潔食認證。
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2021 年 8 月 17 日 16:30
shmita（休假）年每七年出現一次。托拉命令我們停止耕種土地，讓它休耕，將土地留給任何人或動物。
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約旦和以色列在 shmita 年之前簽署了一項農業合作協議，以色列農業部長 Oded Forrer 和約旦農業部長 Rasan al-Majali 週二在兩國邊境舉行了會議。
“ Shmita ”是以色列土地每七年休耕一次的聖經誡命，現代以色列大部分地區的猶太農民必須遵守它，才能使他們的產品獲得猶太潔食認證。以色列找到的一種解決方案是從鄰近的阿拉伯人口購買產品；許多宗教猶太復國主義者喜歡的其他方法包括象徵性地將他們的土地賣給外邦人，或者在 shmita 年將他們的農場從私有變為集體所有。
Forrer和Majali以及兩國大使在艾倫比大橋上會面。
他們同意以色列在未來幾年進口約旦產品。農業部表示，將為保持猶太潔食的人提供多樣化的水果和蔬菜來源，並利用兩國貿易協定中的好處。
即將於 2021 年 5 月舉行的 shmita 年的 kashrut 監督者會議（圖片來源：對方提供）
部長們還討論了在農業創新和技術進步以及防治植物病害方面合作的方式。
他們還討論了兩國的救火以及農民可以發揮的作用。
會議“強調了以色列和約旦之間的關係對於加強鄰國關係和促進合作的重要性，以及農業領域作為推進國家和民族之間關係的一種方式的重要性，”福雷爾的一位發言人說。
新政府在耶路撒冷就職後的兩個月裡，納夫塔利·貝內特總理和國防部長本尼·甘茨會見了約旦國王阿卜杜拉，外長亞伊爾·拉皮德會見了約旦總統艾曼·斯法迪。以色列同意向約旦出售比兩國之間和平協議規定的更多的水，並允許約旦增加對巴勒斯坦權力機構的出口。
Jordan, Israel sign agriculture agreement for shmita year
“Shmita” is the Biblical commandment for the Land of Israel to lay fallow every seven years, and Jewish farmers in most of modern Israel must observe it for their produce to be certified kosher.
By LAHAV HARKOV
AUGUST 17, 2021 16:30
The shmita (sabbatical) year comes once every seven years. The Torah commands us to stop working the land and let it lie fallow, leaving its yield to any man or animal.
(photo credit: THEOPHILOS PAPADOPOULOS/FLICKR)
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Jordan and Israel signed an agricultural cooperation agreement ahead of the shmita year, in a meeting between Israeli Agriculture Minister Oded Forrer and his Jordanian counterpart Rasan al-Majali on the border between the countries on Tuesday.
“Shmita” is the biblical commandment for the Land of Israel to lay fallow every seven years, and Jewish farmers in most of modern Israel must observe it for their produce to be certified kosher. One solution Israel has found is to purchase produce from neighboring Arab populations; others, which are preferred by many religious Zionists, include symbolically selling their land to a gentile or moving their farms from private to collectively-owned for the shmita year.
Forrer and Majali met on the Allenby Bridge, along with the ambassadors of the two countries.
They agreed for Israel to import Jordanian produce in the coming years. The Agriculture Ministry said it would diversify the sources of fruits and vegetables for those who keep kosher, and take advantage of benefits in the trade agreement between the countries.
Conference of kashrut supervisors on upcoming shmita year, May 2021 (credit: Courtesy)
The ministers also discussed ways to partner on innovation and technological advances in agriculture, as well as fighting diseases in plants.
They also discussed fighting fires in both countries, and the role farmers can play.
The meeting “emphasizes the importance of the ties between Israel and Jordan to strengthen neighborly relations and promote cooperation, and the importance of the agricultural field as a way to advance relations between the countries and the nations,” a spokesman for Forrer stated.
In the two months since the new government took office in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Jordanian King Abdullah, and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Sfadi. Israel agreed to sell more water to Jordan than stipulated in the peace agreement between the countries and to allow Jordan to increase its exports to the Palestinian Authority.
黎巴嫩基督教黨：準備衝突以推翻黎巴嫩政府
基督教卡塔布黨表示，現在是通過“一切可用手段”推翻黎巴嫩政府的“時候到了”。
通過TZVI JOFFRE
2021 年 8 月 16 日 17:44
在黎巴嫩北部阿卡的油箱爆炸現場附近，一名黎巴嫩陸軍士兵站崗
（照片來源：奧馬爾·易卜拉欣/路透社）
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在黎巴嫩北部阿卡爾的油箱爆炸中至少有 27 人喪生後，黎巴嫩基督教卡塔布黨週一呼籲準備一場實地對抗，以“通過一切可能的手段”推翻黎巴嫩政府。
在黎巴嫩內戰中發揮重要作用的該黨呼籲黎巴嫩總統米歇爾·奧恩和整個黎巴嫩議會辭職，並呼籲聯合國安理會就黎巴嫩局勢召開緊急會議。
“黎巴嫩人遭受了犯罪集團實施的種族滅絕。因此，必須為他們提供支持，以便在這些困難情況下在社會和經濟上站穩腳跟，直到舉行議會選舉並在國際監督下確保民主過渡，”卡塔布政治局在每週會議後發表的一份聲明中寫道。在賽菲。
該黨警告說，它不能再對“這個殘暴政權及其贊助人和指導者真主黨的罪行保持沉默，它一再炸毀人民，讓他們聽天由命。”
卡塔布黨補充說：“現在是結束這種自殺傾向、放棄其整個系統的權威，並準備進行實地對抗以通過一切可用手段將其推翻的時候了。”
該黨還警告不要鎮壓叛亂分子並試圖通過逮捕來恐嚇他們，稱這些做法值得它所謂的佔領國。
星期六晚上，黎巴嫩北部阿卡的一個油箱爆炸，造成至少 27 人死亡，數十人受傷。截至週一上午，搜尋失踪人員的工作仍在進行中。
週日，黎巴嫩報導稱，油箱內裝有打算走私到敘利亞的燃料。真主黨過去曾被指控從黎巴嫩向敘利亞走私石油。
對事件的調查仍在進行中，尚未就爆炸原因發表官方聲明。
爆炸迅速導致黎巴嫩政治舞台的另一場爆炸，因為由前總理薩阿德·哈里裡領導的未來運動和由奧恩創立並與真主黨結盟的自由愛國運動的一些官員相互指責對方對這一事件負責。甚至指責特定議員直接參與爆炸的坦克。
黎巴嫩媒體報導表示擔心爆炸後的憤怒和騷亂可能演變為暴力。
週日，黎巴嫩前總理薩阿德·哈里裡呼籲黎巴嫩總統米歇爾·奧恩辭職，並告訴他“現在離開，為你的未來保留一些尊嚴，因為你不會很快找到可以庇護你的大使館或可以幫助你的飛機擺脫歷史的詛咒。”
在星期天的最高國防委員會會議上，奧恩警告說，“不要將發生在 Al-Tleil 的悲劇政治化，不要利用烈士的鮮血來提出口號和呼籲，這些口號清楚地揭示了發動襲擊者的意圖。他們以及他們參與旨在損害政權及其機構的計劃。”
Christian Lebanese party: Prepare for conflict to bring down Lebanon gov't
The Christian Kataeb Party has said the "time has come" to bring down the Lebanese government by "all available means."
By TZVI JOFFRE
AUGUST 16, 2021 17:44
A Lebanese army soldier stands guard near the site of a fuel tank explosion in Akkar, in northern Lebanon
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Lebanon's Christian Kataeb Party called on Monday to prepare for a field confrontation to bring down the Lebanese government "by all available means," after at least 27 people were killed in a fuel tank explosion in Akkar in northern Lebanon.
The party, which played an important role in the Lebanese Civil War, called on Lebanese President Michel Aoun and the entire Lebanese parliament to resign and called on the United Nations Security council to hold an emergency meeting on the situation in Lebanon.
“The Lebanese are subjected to a genocide carried out by a criminal group. Thus, support must be provided for them so as to stand socially and economically during these difficult circumstances until the parliamentary elections are held and a democratic transition is secured under an international supervision,” read a statement issued by the Kataeb Political Bureau following its weekly meeting in Saifi.
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The party warned that it could no longer stay silent about the "crimes of this murderous regime, and its patron and guide,
Hezbollah
, which repeatedly explodes its people and leaves them to their fate."
“The time has come to put an end to this suicidal slope, to renounce this authority with its entire system, and prepare for a field confrontation to bring it down by all available means,” added the Kataeb Party.
The party also warned against suppressing the rebels and trying to intimidate them through arrest, calling these practices worthy of what it called an occupying power.
On Saturday night, a fuel tank exploded in Akkar in northern Lebanon, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens. As of Monday morning, searches were ongoing for missing persons.
On Sunday, Lebanese reports indicated that the fuel tanks had been holding fuel which was meant to be smuggled to Syria. Hezbollah has been accused of smuggling oil from Lebanon into Syria in the past.
The investigation into the incident is ongoing and no official statement has been made concerning the cause of the explosion.
The explosion quickly led to another explosion in the Lebanese political scene as some officials from the Future Movement, led by former prime minister Saad Hariri, and the Free Patriotic Movement, founded by Aoun and allied with Hezbollah, accused one another of being responsible for the situation and even going as far as accusing specific MPs of being directly involved with the tanks that exploded.
Lebanese media reports have expressed concerns that the anger and unrest following the explosion could devolve into violence.
On Sunday, former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri called for Lebanese President Michel Aoun to resign, telling him to "leave now and preserve some dignity for your future, because you will not find an embassy to shelter you soon or a plane that will help you escape the curse of history."
During a meeting of the Supreme Defense Council on Sunday, Aoun warned against "the politicization of the tragedy that occurred in Al-Tleil and the exploitation of the blood of the martyrs to raise slogans and launch calls that clearly reveal the intentions of those who launched them and their involvement in schemes aimed at harming the regime and its institutions."
我們不能再忽視反猶太復國主義的猶太人 - 意見
年輕的反猶太復國主義猶太人有一個直截了當的問題：為什麼沒有猶太復國主義，我們就不能擁有猶太教？
作者：埃爾查南·波普科
2021 年 8 月 17 日 18:36
5 月，在紐約市曼哈頓區爆發以巴暴力事件後，一名反以色列的猶太東正教活動人士在以色列領事館附近的抗議活動中戴著帶有巴勒斯坦國旗的面罩。
（圖片來源：愛德華多·穆諾茲/路透社）
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誰沒有在以色列國慶日遊行或任何其他親以色列集會上看到身穿巴解組織旗幟的Neturei Karta猶太人？幾十年來，我們要么大笑、點頭、不屑一顧，要么被猶太人公開支持猶太國家的反常現象激怒。然而，我們在任何時候都不需要將我們社區中的反猶太復國主義視為一件嚴肅的事情。
在過去的一年裡，這一切都發生了變化。不。不僅僅是彼得·貝納特 (Peter Beinart) 在 Tisha Be'Av 上為 1948 年流離失所的巴勒斯坦人說 Kinot。越來越多上過我們走讀學校的年輕猶太人可能坐在你旁邊的 shul 或坐在你的安息日餐桌旁。他們應該得到我們所有人的深思熟慮的回應。
年輕的反猶太復國主義猶太人有一個直截了當的問題：為什麼沒有猶太復國主義，我們就不能擁有猶太教？公平的問題。為什麼我們不能有沒有“Hatikva”的走讀學校教育，沒有以色列國旗的猶太教堂，沒有忙於領導 AIPAC 任務到 DC 或前往以色列的拉比，校園裡沒有演講者來捍衛以色列的希勒爾，年輕的猶太人去不屬於以色列出生權的旅行，以及不完全與以色列相關內容的安息日晚餐？
2015 年，我和妻子開始舉辦安息日晚宴。從那時起，我們接待了 500 多位客人，其中大部分是我們以前從未見過的。大多數情況下，我們不知道我們的客人是誰，直到他們走進門，他們也不認識我們。我們有年輕的猶太人渴望成為葉史瓦大學、希伯來聯合學院和 JTS 的拉比。我們歡迎來自不同專業背景和不同國家的客人，甚至還有一些非猶太遊客想要看看紐約安息日餐桌是什麼樣子。我們有來自不同政治領域的客人，其中一些人為從 CAIR 到 AIPAC、猶太復國主義者、反猶太復國主義者的非營利組織專業工作，通常是不關心這兩種選擇的人——所有人都受到歡迎。
這種大帳篷猶太教是我深信不疑的，歡迎所有人的，我們創造了一個歡迎所有人的空間。這就是我們應該擁有的社區結構。所有人都必須受到歡迎——無論是否是猶太復國主義者。如果有一個猶太人恰好認為猶太人不一定需要擁有自己的國家，那麼他們必須繼續成為我們社區中受歡迎的一部分。
新一波反猶太復國主義的猶太人改變了這一切。
新的反猶太復國主義猶太人不像薩特瑪哈西德社區的成員那樣持有神學信仰，即猶太人在奇蹟般的彌賽亞時代之前不應擁有自己的狀態。新的反猶太復國主義猶太人是決定對其他猶太人發動戰爭的猶太人。他們是主張經濟抵制以色列的猶太人，這將剝奪其他猶太人的謀生手段；他們是遊說限制向以色列出售武器的猶太人，扼殺了猶太國家自衛的能力，他們是尋求使公眾輿論反對以色列並尋求在外交上孤立以色列的猶太人。這不是關於以色列在以色列土地上具有所有可能具有的歷史和宗教意義；這是關於對世界上最大的猶太社區發動戰爭。
彼得·貝納特（Peter Beinart）可以對猶太復國主義的含義採取他想要的任何立場。加入 Ben 和 Jerry 積極抵制其他猶太人的運動，無論他們住在綠線內外、烏干達或伊朗，都跨越了紅線。這是我們作為一個社區無法遏制的行為。這讓我們明白為什麼猶太復國主義在沒有宗教授權或啟發的情況下在我們的社區中發揮作用。
無論地點或意識形態如何，總是將猶太人聚集在一起的兩件事是 arevut 的概念——對猶太人同胞福祉的承諾——以及對確保猶太人民未來的必要性的共同信念。美國的猶太機構並沒有突然出現。他們是用巨大的犧牲建造的。
我想起了我的祖父伯納德·波普科拉比，他在 1930 年代奇蹟般地逃離了蘇聯，只是為了幫助建立希勒爾走讀學校和匹茲堡的大部分猶太社區結構，或者想起我的朋友和英雄拉比約瑟夫·波拉克，他在大屠殺成為波士頓大學希勒爾的拉比，並籌集資金建造北美最美麗、最成功的希勒爾住宅之一。由於他們對猶太人民和我們共同的未來的承諾，他們流汗流血。
熱情的反猶太復國主義猶太人有權發表自己的意見，但事實上，他們將巴勒斯坦民族主義的事業置於他們的猶太人同胞之上。你可以同意或不同意他們，但事實是他們已經放棄了另一個原因。他們選擇傷害他們的猶太人同胞，以推進巴勒斯坦事業。他們有權擔任這個職位，但這樣做，他們已經打開了通往我們共同人性的出口。
包括反猶太復國主義的猶太人與猶太復國主義無關；這是關於我們共同的人性。當 Ben and Jerry's 宣布他們將抵制綠線以外的猶太社區時，紐約州參議員 Simcha Eichenstein 和許多其他哈西迪克商店老闆率先譴責該政策並宣布反抵制 Ben and Jerry 的產品。這些哈西德猶太人可能從未參加過以色列日遊行，也可能從未唱過“Hatikva”，但他們知道對我們中的一個人的攻擊就是對我們所有人的攻擊。他們知道被逐出猶太國家的背後是什麼，這與 Achad Ha'am 或占領無關——而是關於成為猶太人。
Finally and very sadly, being an anti-Zionist Jew can no longer be defined by Jews alone. We have seen over this past year increasing incidents of Jewish communities being attacked under the guise of the "Free Palestine" movement. Synagogues were vandalized, Jews of all ideologies have been attacked, and Jewish students on campus have been intimidated. Whether we like it or not, many antisemites and racists use the Palestinian issue as an excuse to physically and verbally attack Jews. Consequentially, anyone lending a hand to the Free Palestine Movement is lending a hand to a movement used to target Jews wherever they are – and that is the crossing of a red line – aligning oneself with organizations and individuals that are harassing Jews on campus, beating hassidic Jews on the streets of New York, and stabbing rabbis in Boston.
由於 COVID 的限制，我不知道我們什麼時候會再次舉辦大型安息日餐。雖然我不相信我們能夠與反猶太復國主義的猶太人共享一個空間，但我確實認為他們應該得到對他們真正問題的答案和解釋。我希望這是許多人中的第一個。
作者是第 11 代拉比，EITAN - 美國以色列猶太人網絡的總裁，教師和作家。他是美國拉比委員會的成員及其執行委員會的成員。
We can not ignore anti-Zionist Jews any longer - opinion
Young anti-Zionist Jews have a straightforward question: Why can't we have Judaism without Zionism?
By ELCHANAN POUPKO
AUGUST 17, 2021 18:36
AN ANTI-ISRAELI Jewish Orthodox activist wears a face mask with the Palestinian flag during a protest near the Israeli Consulate following a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence in the Manhattan borough of New York City in May.
(photo credit: EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERS)
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Who has not seen the PLO flag-wearing Neturei Karta Jews at the Israel Day Parade or any other pro-Israel rally? For decades we either laughed, nodded, dismissed, or were enraged by the anomaly of Jews publicly taking sides against the Jewish state. Yet, at no point did we need to address anti-Zionism in our community as something serious.
That has all changed over the past year. No. It is not just Peter Beinart saying Kinot on Tisha Be'Av for Palestinians displaced in 1948. A growing number of young Jews who have gone to our day schools may sit next to you in shul or be sitting at your Shabbat table. They deserve a thoughtful response from all of us.
Young anti-Zionist Jews have a straightforward question: Why can't we have Judaism without Zionism? Fair question. Why can't we have a day school education with no “Hatikva,” synagogues without Israeli flags upfront, rabbis that are not busy leading AIPAC missions to DC or trips to Israel, Hillel on campus without speakers coming to defend Israel, young Jews going on trips that are not Birthright trips to Israel, and Shabbat dinners that are not all about Israel-related content?
IN 2015 my wife and I began hosting Shabbat dinners. Since then, we have hosted more than 500 guests, most of whom we had never met previously. Most often, we did not know who our guests were until they walked through the door, nor did they know us. We had young Jews aspiring to become rabbis in Yeshiva University, Hebrew Union College and JTS. We welcomed guests from all various professional backgrounds, orientations from different countries and even had some non-Jewish tourists who wanted to see what a New York Shabbat table looked like. We had guests from across the political spectrum, some of whom worked professionally for non-profits from CAIR to AIPAC, Zionists, anti-Zionists, often people who cared for neither option – all were welcome.
This kind of big-tent Judaism is one that I passionately believe in, one in which all are welcome, and we create a space that is welcoming to all. That is the kind of community structure we should have. All must be welcome – Zionist or not. If there is a Jew who happens to have the opinion that Jews don't necessarily need to have a state of their own, they must remain a welcome part of our community.
The new wave of anti-Zionist Jews changed this all.
The new anti-Zionist Jews are not like members of the Satmar Hassidic community who hold the theological belief that Jews should not have a state of their own until a miraculous messianic era. The new anti-Zionist Jews are Jews who have decided to wage war against other Jews. They are Jews who advocate for economic boycotts of Israel, which will rob other Jews of their means of livelihood; they are Jews lobbying to limit weapons sales to Israel, choking the Jewish state's ability to defend itself, they are Jews seeking to tilt public opinion against Israel and seeking to diplomatically isolate Israel. This is not about Israel being in the land of Israel with all of the historical and religious meanings that might have; this is about waging war against the largest Jewish community in the world. It is about taking an active role in seeking to harm other Jews.
Peter Beinart could have taken whatever position he wanted on what the meaning of Zionism is. Joining Ben and Jerry's campaign to actively boycott other Jews, whether they live inside or outside the Green Line, in Uganda or Iran, crosses a red line. It is the kind of behavior we cannot contain as a community. This brings us to why it is that Zionism plays a role in our communities when not religiously mandated or inspired.
Two things that have always brought together Jews regardless of place or ideology have been the concept of arevut – a commitment to the well-being of fellow Jews – and a shared belief in the need to secure the future of the Jewish people. Jewish institutions in America did not just pop up. They were built with immense sacrifices.
I think of my grandfather Rabbi Bernard Poupko who miraculously fled the Soviet Union in the 1930s just to come and help build Hillel Day School and much of the Jewish communal structure in Pittsburgh, or of my friend and hero, Rabbi Joseph Polak, who survived the Holocaust to become the Rabbi of Hillel in Boston University and raise funds to build one of the most beautiful and successful Hillel Houses in North America. They sweated and bled because of their commitment to the Jewish people and our shared future.
PASSIONATE ANTI-ZIONIST Jews are entitled to their opinions, but factually speaking, they have prioritized the cause of Palestinian nationalism over that of their fellow Jews. You can agree with them or disagree with them, but the fact is that they have abdicated one cause for the other. They have chosen to harm their fellow Jews in favor of advancing the Palestinian cause. They are entitled to that position, but by doing so, they have taken the exit door to our shared peoplehood.
Inclusion of anti-Zionist Jews is not about Zionism; it is about our shared peoplehood. When Ben and Jerry's announced they would be boycotting Jewish communities beyond the Green Line, New York State Senator Simcha Eichenstein and many other hassidic store owners were the first to condemn the policy and announce a counter-boycott on Ben and Jerry's products. These hassidic Jews may have never been in the Israel Day Parade and likely never sang “Hatikva,” but they knew that an assault on one of us is an assault on all of us. They knew what was behind the singling out of the Jewish State and that it was not about Achad Ha'am or the occupation – it was about being Jewish.
Finally and very sadly, being an anti-Zionist Jew can no longer be defined by Jews alone. We have seen over this past year increasing incidents of Jewish communities being attacked under the guise of the "Free Palestine" movement. Synagogues were vandalized, Jews of all ideologies have been attacked, and Jewish students on campus have been intimidated. Whether we like it or not, many antisemites and racists use the Palestinian issue as an excuse to physically and verbally attack Jews. Consequentially, anyone lending a hand to the Free Palestine Movement is lending a hand to a movement used to target Jews wherever they are – and that is the crossing of a red line – aligning oneself with organizations and individuals that are harassing Jews on campus, beating hassidic Jews on the streets of New York, and stabbing rabbis in Boston.
With COVID restrictions I don't know when we will be hosting large Shabbat meals again. While I do not believe we will be able to share a space with anti-Zionist Jews, I do think they deserve answers and explanations to the real questions they have. I hope this is the first of many.
The writer is an 11th-generation rabbi, the president of EITAN – The American Israeli Jewish Network, a teacher and an author. He is a member of the Rabbinical Council of America and a member of its executive committee.
以色列導彈襲擊敘利亞真主黨哨所 - 阿拉伯消息來源
以色列國防軍對俄媒體發言人：以色列襲擊了一個軍事哨所，沒有士兵死亡。
通過路透社，耶路撒冷郵報STAFF
2021 年 8 月 17 日 22:49
2020 年 8 月 22 日，從戈蘭高地以色列-敘利亞邊境的本塔爾山看到的新庫奈特拉
（照片來源：YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90）
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據敘利亞阿拉伯通訊社（SANA）報導，晚上 9 點左右，敘利亞庫奈特拉市傳出爆炸聲。
敘利亞媒體聲稱以色列是爆炸的幕後黑手。
阿拉伯新聞機構報導說，以色列導彈襲擊了庫奈特拉北部鄉村哈德爾鎮以西的 Qir al-Nafl 地區。菅直人報告說，向目標發射了兩枚導彈。
Israeli missiles attack Hezbollah posts in Syria - Arab sources
IDF spokesperson to Russian media: Israel attacked an army post, no soldiers were killed.
By REUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
AUGUST 17, 2021 22:49
View of new Quneitra as it seen from Mount Bental, on the Israeli-Syrian border, in the Golan Heights, August 22, 2020
(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)
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Explosions were heard in Quneitra, Syria at approximately 9 p.m., Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.
Syrian media claimed Israel was behind the explosions.
Arab news agencies report that an Israeli missile attack targeted the Qir al-Nafl area, west of the town of Hader in the northern countryside of Quneitra. Kan reported that there were two missiles launched toward the target.
An IDF spokesperson told Russian media that Israel attacked an army post and no soldiers were killed, Kan reported.
"We don't comment on foreign reports," an Israeli military spokesperson told Reuters.
According to the Palestinian Ma'an news agency, reports claim that one of the targets is a Hezbollah post, and another belongs to Iran.
The area near where UN peacekeepers maintain a longstanding ceasefire between Israel and Syria has a strong presence of Iranian-backed militias led by the Lebanese Hezbollah group.
Israel has over the last two years dramatically expanded airstrikes on suspected Iranian targets in Syria to repel what it sees as a stealthy military encroachment by its regional arch-enemy.
Last week, Arab media reported an explosion on a ship at the port of Latakia, Syria.
Earlier this month, Hezbollah in Lebanon fired rockets towards northern Israel. IDF responded with airstrikes to Lebanon.
Israel says it will not allow Iran and its militias to establish a permanent military presence along its borders that would allow Hezbollah to pose a major threat to its security.
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2021.08.18 國際新聞導讀-塔利班呼籲公務員回去上班恢復政府運作、伊朗與塔利班會否因什葉派哈札拉族而敵對、以色列約旦關係改善、以色列空襲真主黨在敘利亞哨所，報復將難以避免
伊朗希望塔利班接受阿富汗的“多樣性”
談到阿富汗，伊朗的政策是複雜的。
作者：SETH J. FRANZMAN
2021 年 8 月 17 日 15:40
伊朗外交部長穆罕默德賈瓦德扎里夫上週在德黑蘭會見了塔利班政治領袖毛拉阿卜杜勒加尼巴拉達爾。
（圖片來源：WANA（西亞新聞社）VIA REUTERS）
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當美國計劃離開阿富汗時——同意與塔利班達成協議並放棄阿富汗政府，切斷資金和合同，並在深夜離開軍事崗位——伊朗正在爭取一個更具包容性的阿富汗。雖然美國口頭上支持多樣性，美國駐喀布爾大使館在 6 月份在推特上發布了同性戀驕傲旗幟，但實際上它在一年多前就已經決定離開。但伊朗必須與作為東部鄰國的塔利班打交道——德黑蘭擔心 1990 年代的極端主義會捲土重來。
這對伊朗來說是一個複雜的問題，伊朗歷來尋求保護和培養中東各地的什葉派，有時是為了賦予他們權力，有時是為了輸出其“革命”。但伊斯蘭共和國也有來自哈馬斯等其他團體的極右翼宗教朋友。這是因為伊朗伊斯蘭革命衛隊的世界觀不僅針對什葉派，而且還與該地區的反西方、反以色列和其他分子合作。
一名塔利班成員於 2018 年 6 月 16 日在阿富汗喀布爾舉著一面旗幟。旗幟上寫著：“只有真主，穆罕默德是真主的使者”（圖片來源：REUTERS/MOHAMMAD ISMAIL）
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談到阿富汗，其政策也很複雜。1990 年代，當塔利班在阿富汗惡毒鎮壓哈扎拉什葉派並收容試圖以伊朗為目標的基地組織分子時，伊朗與塔利班和基地組織關係密切。在那些日子裡浮出水面的宗派主義使遜尼派聖戰分子與少數什葉派分子對立起來，在聖戰分子的另一端，他們認為與納粹對猶太人的看法相似的非人類異教徒。例如，伊斯蘭國對什葉派、雅茲迪派和其他人實施了種族滅絕。
當美國在 9/11 之後入侵阿富汗時，伊朗與塔利班的緊張關係發生了變化。德黑蘭是憤世嫉俗和務實的，它曾經很高興接受薩達姆的空軍逃離伊拉克，它歡迎基地組織分子並接待他們。現在伊朗正在註視著塔利班上台，伊朗與他們會面。伊朗與塔利班一致的地方是需要讓美國撤出阿富汗。但它不同意的地方在於塔利班如何對待少數民族。
伊朗的塔斯尼姆通訊社通過強調阿富汗的“種族宗教多樣性”證實了這一點。它希望看到塔利班“按照人民的意願實施其執政方式”。將伊朗親伊朗革命衛隊的媒體聲明誤認為是華盛頓傳出的事情是可以原諒的。“民意”和“多樣性”通常是美國政策和治理的標誌。
伊朗的邏輯不是這種“人民的意志”必須是民主的，而是“伊朗東部鄰國的政治、社會和安全發展的新時代開始了”。據說塔利班可能會形成一個“包容性的政治體系”。但德黑蘭警告說：“塔利班的面孔在該國大多數人民以及世界輿論的眼中都與暴力和極端主義聯繫在一起，這個組織統治阿富汗的歷史並不為公眾所接受。頭腦。”
伊朗承認塔利班有一個新的公關活動試圖改變他們的形象。“儘管塔利班繼續堅持組建‘伊斯蘭酋長國’，但在這段時間裡，他們一再強調需要與內外各方互動、對話和寬容，並試圖增強自己的‘軟實力’。”
伊朗自稱是伊斯蘭共和國，卻擔心一個伊斯蘭酋長國？伊朗希望阿富汗境內與伊朗有聯繫的團體，例如它招募的在敘利亞作戰的什葉派，仍然與德黑蘭有聯繫。它希望看到權力在不同群體之間劃分。“最近幾週，塔利班官員的這種言論有時很實際，因為他們在與政府分子甚至前政府官員打交道時採取了和平行動。”
但伊朗媒體警告稱，對塔利班組建包容性政府的最終政策做出最終判斷還為時過早。“如果它想被本國人民和世界輿論所接受，它只能在實踐中表明，塔利班五年統治（1996-2001）的形象應該被遺忘。”
伊朗似乎對塔利班的勝利表示歡迎，現在正在等待對塔利班言論的未來考驗，看看他們是否已經改變了方式。
Iran wants Taliban to embrace 'diversity' of Afghanistan
When it comes Afghanistan, Iran's policy is complex.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
AUGUST 17, 2021 15:40
IRAN’S FOREIGN MINISTER Mohammad Javad Zarif meets with Taliban political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Tehran last week.
(photo credit: WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY) VIA REUTERS)
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While the US was planning to leave Afghanistan – agreeing to a deal with the Taliban and abandoning the Afghan government, cutting off funding and contracts, and leaving military posts in the dead of night – Iran was angling for a more inclusive Afghanistan. While the US paid lip service to diversity, with the US embassy in Kabul tweeting a Gay Pride flag in June, it had in fact already decided to leave more than a year ago. But Iran must deal with the Taliban as neighbors to the east – and Tehran is concerned that the extremism of the 1990s will return.
This is a complex problem for Iran, which has traditionally sought to protect and cultivate Shi’ites around the Middle East, sometimes to empower them and other times to export its “revolution.” But the Islamic Republic also has far-right religious friends from other groups, such as Hamas. This is because the Iranian IRGC world view isn’t just about Shi’ites, but working with anti-Western, anti-Israel and other elements across the region.
A member of the Taliban holds a flag in Kabul, Afghanistan June 16, 2018. The writing on the flag reads: 'There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah' (credit: REUTERS/MOHAMMAD ISMAIL)
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When it comes to Afghanistan, its policy is also complex. Iran had deep tensions with the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the 1990s when the Taliban were viciously suppressing Hazzara Shi’ites in Afghanistan and hosting Al Qaeda elements who sought to target Iran. The sectarianism bubbling to the surface in those days pitted Sunni jihadists against minority Shi’ites who, at the far end of the jihadist spectrum, they viewed as subhuman infidels similar to the Nazi view of Jews. ISIS, for instance, committed genocide against Shi’ites, Yazidis and others.
Iran’s tensions with the Taliban shifted when America invaded Afghanistan after 9/11. Tehran is cynical and pragmatic, and much as it once was happy to accept Saddam’s air force fleeing from Iraq, it welcomed Al Qaeda elements and hosted them. Now Iran is watching as the Taliban come to power and Iran has met with them. Where Iran agrees with the Taliban is the need to get the US out of Afghanistan. But where it disagrees is in how the Taliban may treat minorities.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency confirms this by highlighting the “ethnic-religious diversity” of Afghanistan. It wants to see the Taliban “implement its way of governing according to the will of the people.” One could be forgiven for mistaking the Iranian pro-IRGC media statements for something that comes out of Washington. “Will of the people” and “diversity” are usually the hallmarks of US policy and governance.
IRAN'S LOGIC is not that this “will of the people” needs to be democracy, but rather that “a new era of political, social and security developments in Iran's eastern neighbor began.” It is saying that the Taliban may form an “inclusive political system.” But Tehran cautions: “The face of the Taliban is associated with violence and extremism in the eyes of most of the people of this country as well as the world public opinion, and the history of this group's rule over Afghanistan is not desirable in the public mind.”
Iran acknowledges that the Taliban have a new public relations campaign trying to change their image. “Although the Taliban continue to insist on the formation of an ‘Islamic Emirate’, during this time they have repeatedly stressed the need for interaction, dialogue and tolerance with internal and external parties and are trying to increase their ‘soft power.’”
Iran, which proclaims itself an Islamic Republic, is concerned about an Islamic Emirate? Iran wants groups in Afghanistan that are linked to Iran, such as Shi’ites it has recruited to fight in Syria, to still have connections with Tehran. It wants to see power divided between groups. “Such remarks by Taliban officials have sometimes been practical in recent weeks, as they have acted peacefully in dealing with government elements and even former government officials.”
But Iran’s media cautions that it is too early to make a final judgment on the Taliban's definitive policy of forming an inclusive government. “If it wants to be accepted by its people and the world public opinion, it has no choice but to show in practice that the image of the Taliban's 5-year rule (1996-2001) should be forgotten.”
Iran, which appeared to welcome the Taliban victory, now awaits a future test of the Taliban's discourse to see if they have changed their ways.
塔利班舉行勝利後首次新聞發布會
塔利班表示，他們不希望在勝利後的新聞發布會上出現內部或外部敵人。
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2021 年 8 月 17 日 19:23
2021 年 8 月 16 日，在這張取自社交媒體視頻的靜態圖像中，塔利班揮舞著旗幟穿過阿富汗喀布爾的街道。
（圖片來源：SNAPCHAT/@mr_khaludi /VIA REUTERS）
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在塔利班自奪取震盪市舉行在喀布爾的第一次正式新聞發布會上週二宣布，他們希望與其他國家的和平關係，並會尊重伊斯蘭法律的框架內，婦女的權利。
“我們不想要任何內部或外部敵人，”該運動的主要發言人 Zabihullah Mujahid 說。
穆賈希德說，女性將被允許工作和學習，並且“將在社會中非常活躍，但在伊斯蘭教的框架內”。
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他說，塔利班不會對前士兵和西方支持的政府成員尋求報復，並表示該運動獲得了對前阿富汗政府士兵以及為國際部隊工作的承包商和翻譯人員的特赦。
“沒有人會傷害你，沒有人會敲你的門，”他說。
他說私人媒體在阿富汗可以繼續保持自由和獨立，並補充說塔利班在其文化框架內致力於媒體。
穆賈希德的和解語氣與阿富汗第一副總統阿姆魯拉薩利赫的評論形成鮮明對比，薩利赫宣稱自己是“合法的看守總統”，並發誓他不會向喀布爾的新統治者低頭。
塔利班新聞發布會召開之際，美國和西方盟友在喀布爾機場發生混亂的第二天撤離了外交官和平民，因為迫切希望逃離塔利班的阿富汗人蜂擁而至。
當他們急於從阿富汗撤離外交官和平民時，外國勢力正在評估如何應對當地變化的局勢。
北約秘書長延斯斯托爾滕貝格表示，塔利班應該允許所有想要離開該國的人離開，並補充說北約的目標是幫助在阿富汗建立一個可行的國家。
在喀布爾機場混亂的場面中，美國撤軍受到廣泛批評。德國總統弗蘭克-瓦爾特施泰因邁爾說：“喀布爾機場絕望的畫面讓西方政治蒙羞。”
根據去年達成的美軍撤軍協議，塔利班同意在外國軍隊離開時不攻擊他們。
聯合國發言人在回應新聞發布會時說：“我們需要看看實際發生了什麼。我們需要看到在兌現承諾方面的實際行動。”
航班恢復
週二，在喀布爾機場的跑道上清除了數千名急於逃離的人後，美國從阿富汗撤離外交官和平民的軍用航班重新啟動。
美國軍隊在周日接管了機場——他們飛出阿富汗的唯一途徑——在他們被美國領導的入侵驅逐 20 年後，激進分子在沒有戰鬥的情況下接管了喀布爾，結束了一周的快速推進.
機場的一名西方安全官員告訴路透社，平民人數已經減少。週一，美國軍隊鳴槍警告以驅散人群，人們緊緊抓住一架美國軍用運輸機滑行準備起飛。
機場的一名外交官說，至少有 12 架軍用航班起飛。飛機原定從澳大利亞和波蘭等國抵達，以接載他們的國民和阿富汗同事。
喬拜登總統表示，他必須在要求美軍無休止地戰鬥或執行其前任共和黨人唐納德特朗普談判達成的撤軍協議之間做出決定。
“我堅決支持我的決定，”拜登說。“20 年後，我艱難地了解到，從來沒有撤軍的好時機。”
甚至他自己的外交官也面臨批評，他將塔利班的接管歸咎於逃離的阿富汗政治領導人及其軍隊不願戰鬥。
Taliban holds first press conference since victory
The Taliban said they do not want internal or external enemies in a press conference following their victory.
By REUTERS
AUGUST 17, 2021 19:23
Taliban waving a flag drive through the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan August 16, 2021 in this still image taken from social media video.
(photo credit: SNAPCHAT/ @ mr_khaludi /VIA REUTERS)
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The Taliban held their first official news conference in Kabul on Tuesday since the shock seizure of the city, declaring they wanted peaceful relations with other countries and would respect the rights of women within the framework of Islamic law.
"We don't want any internal or external enemies," the movement's main spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said.
Mujahid said women would be allowed to work and study and "will be very active in society but within the framework of Islam."
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The Taliban would not seek retribution against former soldiers and members of the Western-backed government, he said, saying the movement was granted an amnesty for former Afghan government soldiers as well as contractors and translators who worked for international forces.
"Nobody is going to harm you, nobody is going to knock on your doors," he said.
He said private media could continue to be free and independent in Afghanistan, adding the Taliban was committed to the media within its cultural framework.
Mujahid's conciliatory tone contrasted sharply with comments by Afghan First Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who declared himself the "legitimate caretaker president" and vowed that he would not bow to Kabul's new rulers.
The Taliban news conference came as the United States and Western allies evacuated diplomats and civilians the day after scenes of chaos at Kabul airport as Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban thronged to the terminal.
As they rush to evacuate diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan, foreign powers are assessing how to respond to the changed situation on the ground.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the Taliban should allow all those who wanted to leave the country to depart, adding that NATO's aim was to help build a viable state in Afghanistan.
There has been widespread criticism of the US withdrawal amid the chaotic scenes at Kabul airport. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said "the images of despair at Kabul airport shame the political West."
Under a US troops withdrawal pact struck last year, the Taliban agreed not to attack foreign forces as they leave.
In response to the press conference, a UN spokesperson said "we will need to see what actually happens. We will need to see acts on the ground in terms of promises kept."
FLIGHTS RESUME
US military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan restarted on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands desperate to flee.
US forces took charge of the airport - their only way to fly out of Afghanistan - on Sunday, as the militants wound up a week of rapid advances by taking over Kabul without a fight, 20 years after they were ousted by a US-led invasion.
The number of civilians had thinned out, a Western security official at the airport told Reuters. On Monday US troops had fired warning shots to disperse crowds and people clung to a US military transport plane as it taxied for take-off.
At least 12 military flights had taken off, a diplomat at the airport said. Planes were due to arrive from countries including Australia and Poland to pick up their nationals and Afghan colleagues.
President Joe Biden said he had to decide between asking US forces to fight endlessly or follow through on a withdrawal agreement negotiated by his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump.
"I stand squarely behind my decision," Biden said. "After 20 years I've learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw US forces."
Facing criticism from even his own diplomats, he blamed the Taliban's takeover on Afghan political leaders who fled and its army's unwillingness to fight.
從喀布爾撤離的努力仍在繼續
荷蘭派另一架飛機協助疏散
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2021 年 8 月 17 日 17:41
2021 年 8 月 16 日，塔利班叛亂分子控制了喀布爾的總統府後，一群人跑向喀布爾機場航站樓，圖片來自社交媒體上的視頻
（圖片來源：Jawad Sukhanyar）
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週二早些時候，在塔利班佔領首都後，喀布爾機場的跑道上清除了數千名急於逃離的人後，撤離外交官和平民的軍事航班恢復了。
荷蘭外交部長西格麗德·卡格週二表示，由於擔心行動時間不多了，荷蘭已向阿富汗派遣了第二架軍用飛機，以幫助從該國撤離人員。
Kaag 說，目的是提取至少近 40 名在荷蘭大使館的阿富汗當地工作人員及其家人，以及翻譯和其他阿富汗人，因為他們為荷蘭或非政府組織工作，他們的生命可能受到塔利班武裝分子的威脅。 .
但 Kaag 表示，目前還不確定有多少人會出來，還有多少時間可以進行手術。“我們將盡一切努力讓那些值得我們保護的人離開”，她在與荷蘭議員的辯論中說。
“但我們無法控制局勢（並且）我們不得不假設我們只有非常有限的時間。嚴峻的現實是人們可能無法到達（喀布爾）機場。”
Kaag 補充說，荷蘭人依靠美國武裝部隊來保護機場，並依靠美國與塔利班的談判來幫助確保那些想要離開阿富汗的人安全通行。
荷蘭軍方周一向阿富汗派遣了首架航班，但由於機場混亂，這架飛機無法降落在喀布爾。
外交部長雅庫布·庫爾哈內克 (Jakub Kulhanek) 表示，與此同時，在塔利班奪取阿富汗控制權後，第二架捷克飛機於週二離開喀布爾，將捷克人和當地工作人員從阿富汗撤離。
捷克共和國周日疏散了 46 名公民和當地工人及其家人。庫爾哈內克說，週二的航班包括該國駐阿富汗大使。
盧森堡週二表示，將與比利時聯合向喀布爾派遣一架軍用飛機，以撤離其公民和盟友。
大公國表示，它與四名盧森堡公民和兩名仍在阿富汗的盧森堡居民保持聯繫。
據比利時媒體週二報導，比利時正在向巴基斯坦首都伊斯蘭堡派遣飛機，從那裡他們將飛往阿富汗，以在塔利班接管該國後疏散該國人民。
五角大樓週二表示，美國軍用飛機和一些民用飛機正在進出喀布爾機場。
美國陸軍少將威廉·泰勒與聯合參謀部表示，到當天結束時，美軍將超過 4,000 人，到目前為止，還沒有與塔利班發生任何敵對互動。
泰勒說，目標是每小時有一個航班從喀布爾起飛。
漢莎航空表示，它正在組織三架特殊航班，將撤離人員從阿富汗帶到法蘭克福，首架客機空客 A340 將於週二晚些時候從塔什幹起飛。
德國航空公司的一位發言人表示，計劃於週三從塔什乾和多哈飛往法蘭克福的另外兩個航班。
在阿富汗首都淪陷到塔利班之後，美軍已經佔領了喀布爾機場，並開始空運外交官和平民。然後，商業航空公司正在從該地區的機場運送撤離人員。
Evacuation efforts from Kabul continue
The Dutch sent another plane to assist with evacuations
By REUTERS
AUGUST 17, 2021 17:41
A horde of people run towards the Kabul Airport Terminal, after Taliban insurgents took control of the presidential palace in Kabul, August 16, 2021, in this still image taken from video obtained from social media
(photo credit: Jawad Sukhanyar)
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Military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians resumed earlier on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands of people desperate to flee after the Taliban seized the capital.
The Netherlands has sent a second military plane to Afghanistan to help evacuate people from the country, fearing time for the operation is running out, Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag said on Tuesday.
Kaag said the aim was to extract at least the almost 40 local Afghan staff at the Dutch Embassy and their families, along with translators and other Afghans whose lives may be in danger from Taliban militants because of their work for the Netherlands or non-governmental organizations.
But Kaag said it was very uncertain how many people would get out and how much time there was for the operation. "We will do everything we can to get those who deserve our protection out", she said in a debate with Dutch members of parliament.
"But we are not in control of the situation (and) we have to assume we only have very limited time. The grim reality is that that people might not be able to reach (Kabul) airport."
Kaag added the Dutch were reliant on US armed forces to protect the airport and on American negotiations with the Taliban to help ensure safe passage for those who want to leave Afghanistan.
The Dutch military sent an initial flight to Afghanistan on Monday, but that plane was unable to land in Kabul due to the chaos at the airport.
Meanwhile, a second Czech plane left Kabul on Tuesday, evacuating Czechs and local staff from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control of the country, Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek said.
The Czech Republic evacuated 46 citizens and local workers and their families on Sunday. Tuesday's flight included the country's ambassador to Afghanistan, Kulhanek said.
Luxembourg said on Tuesday that it would send a military plane to Kabul in a joint move with Belgium to evacuate its citizens and allies.
The Grand Duchy said it was in contact with four Luxembourg citizens and two Luxembourg residents who are still in Afghanistan.
Belgium is sending planes to Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, from where they will fly to Afghanistan to evacuate people in the country after the Taliban takeover, Belgian media reported on Tuesday.
US military flights, along with some civilian aircraft, are flying in and out of Kabul's airport, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
US Army Major General William Taylor, with the Joint Staff, said that there would be more than 4,000 US troops by the end of the day and so far there had not been any hostile interactions with the Taliban.
Taylor said the aim was to have one flight taking off from Kabul per hour.
Lufthansa said it was organizing three special flights to bring evacuees from Afghanistan to Frankfurt, with the first passenger jet, an Airbus A340, to take off from Tashkent later on Tuesday.
Two further flights to Frankfurt, from Tashkent and Doha, are planned for Wednesday, a spokesperson for the German airline said.
US forces have secured Kabul airport and started an airlift to fly out diplomats and civilians after the fall of the Afghan capital to the Taliban. Commercial airlines are then ferrying evacuees on from airports in the region.
伊朗稱其駐喀布爾大使館保持開放
該報告發布之際，許多國家出於對塔利班叛亂分子佔領該市後的安全局勢的擔憂，將其大使館工作人員從喀布爾撤離。
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2021 年 8 月 17 日 14:19
2021 年 8 月 16 日，塔利班叛亂分子控制了喀布爾的總統府後，一群人跑向喀布爾機場航站樓，圖片來自社交媒體上的視頻
（圖片來源：Jawad Sukhanyar）
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據伊朗官方媒體週二報導，伊朗駐阿富汗首都喀布爾大使館仍然開放並完全活躍，一天前德黑蘭歡迎其主要敵人美國在從阿富汗撤軍時“軍事失敗”。
該報告發布之際，由於擔心塔利班叛亂分子佔領該市後的安全局勢，許多國家從喀布爾撤離了大使館工作人員，促使數千人湧入機場試圖逃離該國。
伊朗什葉派穆斯林長期以來一直是鄰國阿富汗強硬的遜尼派穆斯林塔利班的敵人，但在過去幾年裡，伊朗官員公開會見了塔利班領導人。7 月，德黑蘭主辦了當時的阿富汗政府代表和塔利班高層政治委員會的會議。
昨天，塔利班戰士站在喀布爾內政部外。（信用：路透社）
“伊朗伊斯蘭共和國駐喀布爾大使館是完全開放和活躍的。伊朗在赫拉特的總領事館也開放和活躍，”伊朗外交部發言人賽義德·哈蒂布扎德說，官方通訊社 IRNA 引述道。他沒有詳細說明。
伊朗總統易卜拉欣·賴西周一表示，美國在阿富汗的“軍事失敗”及其撤軍為在飽受戰爭蹂躪的國家建立持久和平提供了機會。
塔利班一名高級官員周二表示，塔利班已命令他們的戰士保持紀律，不得進入任何外交大樓或乾擾大使館車輛。
Khatibzadeh 週日表示，伊朗已減少其在阿富汗城市馬扎里沙裡夫、賈拉拉巴德和坎大哈的領事館的活動。
Iran says its embassy in Kabul remains open
The report came as many countries evacuated their embassy staff from Kabul due to concerns over the security situation after Taliban insurgents seized the city.
By REUTERS
AUGUST 17, 2021 14:19
A horde of people run towards the Kabul Airport Terminal, after Taliban insurgents took control of the presidential palace in Kabul, August 16, 2021, in this still image taken from video obtained from social media
(photo credit: Jawad Sukhanyar)
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Iran's embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul remains open and fully active, state media reported on Tuesday, a day after Tehran welcomed the "military failure" of its arch-foe the United States as it withdraws its forces from Afghanistan.
The report came as many countries evacuated their embassy staff from Kabul due to concerns over the security situation after Taliban insurgents seized the city, prompting thousands of people to throng the airport in an attempt to flee the country.
Shi’ite Muslim Iran has long been a foe of the hardline Sunni Muslim Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan, but in the past few years its officials have openly met Taliban leaders. In July, Tehran hosted a meeting of then-Afghan government representatives and a high-level Taliban political committee.
TALIBAN FIGHTERS stand outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul yesterday. (credit: REUTERS)
"The embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kabul is fully open and active. Iran's consulate general in Herat is also open and active," said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, quoted by the official news agency IRNA. He did not elaborate.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday the "military failure" of the United States in Afghanistan and its withdrawal of forces offered an opportunity to establish lasting peace in the war-ravaged nation.
The Taliban have ordered their fighters to maintain discipline and not to enter any diplomatic buildings or interfere with embassy vehicles, a senior official of the group said on Tuesday.
On Sunday, Khatibzadeh said Iran had wound down activities at its consulates in the Afghan cities of Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad, and Kandahar.
約旦，以色列簽署什米塔年農業協議
“Shmita”是以色列土地每七年休耕一次的聖經誡命，現代以色列大部分地區的猶太農民必須遵守它，才能使他們的產品獲得猶太潔食認證。
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2021 年 8 月 17 日 16:30
shmita（休假）年每七年出現一次。托拉命令我們停止耕種土地，讓它休耕，將土地留給任何人或動物。
（照片來源：THEOPHILOS PAPADOPOULOS / FLICKR）
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約旦和以色列在 shmita 年之前簽署了一項農業合作協議，以色列農業部長 Oded Forrer 和約旦農業部長 Rasan al-Majali 週二在兩國邊境舉行了會議。
“ Shmita ”是以色列土地每七年休耕一次的聖經誡命，現代以色列大部分地區的猶太農民必須遵守它，才能使他們的產品獲得猶太潔食認證。以色列找到的一種解決方案是從鄰近的阿拉伯人口購買產品；許多宗教猶太復國主義者喜歡的其他方法包括象徵性地將他們的土地賣給外邦人，或者在 shmita 年將他們的農場從私有變為集體所有。
Forrer和Majali以及兩國大使在艾倫比大橋上會面。
他們同意以色列在未來幾年進口約旦產品。農業部表示，將為保持猶太潔食的人提供多樣化的水果和蔬菜來源，並利用兩國貿易協定中的好處。
即將於 2021 年 5 月舉行的 shmita 年的 kashrut 監督者會議（圖片來源：對方提供）
部長們還討論了在農業創新和技術進步以及防治植物病害方面合作的方式。
他們還討論了兩國的救火以及農民可以發揮的作用。
會議“強調了以色列和約旦之間的關係對於加強鄰國關係和促進合作的重要性，以及農業領域作為推進國家和民族之間關係的一種方式的重要性，”福雷爾的一位發言人說。
新政府在耶路撒冷就職後的兩個月裡，納夫塔利·貝內特總理和國防部長本尼·甘茨會見了約旦國王阿卜杜拉，外長亞伊爾·拉皮德會見了約旦總統艾曼·斯法迪。以色列同意向約旦出售比兩國之間和平協議規定的更多的水，並允許約旦增加對巴勒斯坦權力機構的出口。
Jordan, Israel sign agriculture agreement for shmita year
“Shmita” is the Biblical commandment for the Land of Israel to lay fallow every seven years, and Jewish farmers in most of modern Israel must observe it for their produce to be certified kosher.
By LAHAV HARKOV
AUGUST 17, 2021 16:30
The shmita (sabbatical) year comes once every seven years. The Torah commands us to stop working the land and let it lie fallow, leaving its yield to any man or animal.
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Jordan and Israel signed an agricultural cooperation agreement ahead of the shmita year, in a meeting between Israeli Agriculture Minister Oded Forrer and his Jordanian counterpart Rasan al-Majali on the border between the countries on Tuesday.
“Shmita” is the biblical commandment for the Land of Israel to lay fallow every seven years, and Jewish farmers in most of modern Israel must observe it for their produce to be certified kosher. One solution Israel has found is to purchase produce from neighboring Arab populations; others, which are preferred by many religious Zionists, include symbolically selling their land to a gentile or moving their farms from private to collectively-owned for the shmita year.
Forrer and Majali met on the Allenby Bridge, along with the ambassadors of the two countries.
They agreed for Israel to import Jordanian produce in the coming years. The Agriculture Ministry said it would diversify the sources of fruits and vegetables for those who keep kosher, and take advantage of benefits in the trade agreement between the countries.
Conference of kashrut supervisors on upcoming shmita year, May 2021 (credit: Courtesy)
The ministers also discussed ways to partner on innovation and technological advances in agriculture, as well as fighting diseases in plants.
They also discussed fighting fires in both countries, and the role farmers can play.
The meeting “emphasizes the importance of the ties between Israel and Jordan to strengthen neighborly relations and promote cooperation, and the importance of the agricultural field as a way to advance relations between the countries and the nations,” a spokesman for Forrer stated.
In the two months since the new government took office in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Jordanian King Abdullah, and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Sfadi. Israel agreed to sell more water to Jordan than stipulated in the peace agreement between the countries and to allow Jordan to increase its exports to the Palestinian Authority.
黎巴嫩基督教黨：準備衝突以推翻黎巴嫩政府
基督教卡塔布黨表示，現在是通過“一切可用手段”推翻黎巴嫩政府的“時候到了”。
通過TZVI JOFFRE
2021 年 8 月 16 日 17:44
在黎巴嫩北部阿卡的油箱爆炸現場附近，一名黎巴嫩陸軍士兵站崗
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在黎巴嫩北部阿卡爾的油箱爆炸中至少有 27 人喪生後，黎巴嫩基督教卡塔布黨週一呼籲準備一場實地對抗，以“通過一切可能的手段”推翻黎巴嫩政府。
在黎巴嫩內戰中發揮重要作用的該黨呼籲黎巴嫩總統米歇爾·奧恩和整個黎巴嫩議會辭職，並呼籲聯合國安理會就黎巴嫩局勢召開緊急會議。
“黎巴嫩人遭受了犯罪集團實施的種族滅絕。因此，必須為他們提供支持，以便在這些困難情況下在社會和經濟上站穩腳跟，直到舉行議會選舉並在國際監督下確保民主過渡，”卡塔布政治局在每週會議後發表的一份聲明中寫道。在賽菲。
該黨警告說，它不能再對“這個殘暴政權及其贊助人和指導者真主黨的罪行保持沉默，它一再炸毀人民，讓他們聽天由命。”
卡塔布黨補充說：“現在是結束這種自殺傾向、放棄其整個系統的權威，並準備進行實地對抗以通過一切可用手段將其推翻的時候了。”
該黨還警告不要鎮壓叛亂分子並試圖通過逮捕來恐嚇他們，稱這些做法值得它所謂的佔領國。
星期六晚上，黎巴嫩北部阿卡的一個油箱爆炸，造成至少 27 人死亡，數十人受傷。截至週一上午，搜尋失踪人員的工作仍在進行中。
週日，黎巴嫩報導稱，油箱內裝有打算走私到敘利亞的燃料。真主黨過去曾被指控從黎巴嫩向敘利亞走私石油。
對事件的調查仍在進行中，尚未就爆炸原因發表官方聲明。
爆炸迅速導致黎巴嫩政治舞台的另一場爆炸，因為由前總理薩阿德·哈里裡領導的未來運動和由奧恩創立並與真主黨結盟的自由愛國運動的一些官員相互指責對方對這一事件負責。甚至指責特定議員直接參與爆炸的坦克。
黎巴嫩媒體報導表示擔心爆炸後的憤怒和騷亂可能演變為暴力。
週日，黎巴嫩前總理薩阿德·哈里裡呼籲黎巴嫩總統米歇爾·奧恩辭職，並告訴他“現在離開，為你的未來保留一些尊嚴，因為你不會很快找到可以庇護你的大使館或可以幫助你的飛機擺脫歷史的詛咒。”
在星期天的最高國防委員會會議上，奧恩警告說，“不要將發生在 Al-Tleil 的悲劇政治化，不要利用烈士的鮮血來提出口號和呼籲，這些口號清楚地揭示了發動襲擊者的意圖。他們以及他們參與旨在損害政權及其機構的計劃。”
Christian Lebanese party: Prepare for conflict to bring down Lebanon gov't
The Christian Kataeb Party has said the "time has come" to bring down the Lebanese government by "all available means."
By TZVI JOFFRE
AUGUST 16, 2021 17:44
A Lebanese army soldier stands guard near the site of a fuel tank explosion in Akkar, in northern Lebanon
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Lebanon's Christian Kataeb Party called on Monday to prepare for a field confrontation to bring down the Lebanese government "by all available means," after at least 27 people were killed in a fuel tank explosion in Akkar in northern Lebanon.
The party, which played an important role in the Lebanese Civil War, called on Lebanese President Michel Aoun and the entire Lebanese parliament to resign and called on the United Nations Security council to hold an emergency meeting on the situation in Lebanon.
“The Lebanese are subjected to a genocide carried out by a criminal group. Thus, support must be provided for them so as to stand socially and economically during these difficult circumstances until the parliamentary elections are held and a democratic transition is secured under an international supervision,” read a statement issued by the Kataeb Political Bureau following its weekly meeting in Saifi.
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The party warned that it could no longer stay silent about the "crimes of this murderous regime, and its patron and guide,
Hezbollah
, which repeatedly explodes its people and leaves them to their fate."
“The time has come to put an end to this suicidal slope, to renounce this authority with its entire system, and prepare for a field confrontation to bring it down by all available means,” added the Kataeb Party.
The party also warned against suppressing the rebels and trying to intimidate them through arrest, calling these practices worthy of what it called an occupying power.
On Saturday night, a fuel tank exploded in Akkar in northern Lebanon, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens. As of Monday morning, searches were ongoing for missing persons.
On Sunday, Lebanese reports indicated that the fuel tanks had been holding fuel which was meant to be smuggled to Syria. Hezbollah has been accused of smuggling oil from Lebanon into Syria in the past.
The investigation into the incident is ongoing and no official statement has been made concerning the cause of the explosion.
The explosion quickly led to another explosion in the Lebanese political scene as some officials from the Future Movement, led by former prime minister Saad Hariri, and the Free Patriotic Movement, founded by Aoun and allied with Hezbollah, accused one another of being responsible for the situation and even going as far as accusing specific MPs of being directly involved with the tanks that exploded.
Lebanese media reports have expressed concerns that the anger and unrest following the explosion could devolve into violence.
On Sunday, former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri called for Lebanese President Michel Aoun to resign, telling him to "leave now and preserve some dignity for your future, because you will not find an embassy to shelter you soon or a plane that will help you escape the curse of history."
During a meeting of the Supreme Defense Council on Sunday, Aoun warned against "the politicization of the tragedy that occurred in Al-Tleil and the exploitation of the blood of the martyrs to raise slogans and launch calls that clearly reveal the intentions of those who launched them and their involvement in schemes aimed at harming the regime and its institutions."
我們不能再忽視反猶太復國主義的猶太人 - 意見
年輕的反猶太復國主義猶太人有一個直截了當的問題：為什麼沒有猶太復國主義，我們就不能擁有猶太教？
作者：埃爾查南·波普科
2021 年 8 月 17 日 18:36
5 月，在紐約市曼哈頓區爆發以巴暴力事件後，一名反以色列的猶太東正教活動人士在以色列領事館附近的抗議活動中戴著帶有巴勒斯坦國旗的面罩。
（圖片來源：愛德華多·穆諾茲/路透社）
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誰沒有在以色列國慶日遊行或任何其他親以色列集會上看到身穿巴解組織旗幟的Neturei Karta猶太人？幾十年來，我們要么大笑、點頭、不屑一顧，要么被猶太人公開支持猶太國家的反常現象激怒。然而，我們在任何時候都不需要將我們社區中的反猶太復國主義視為一件嚴肅的事情。
在過去的一年裡，這一切都發生了變化。不。不僅僅是彼得·貝納特 (Peter Beinart) 在 Tisha Be'Av 上為 1948 年流離失所的巴勒斯坦人說 Kinot。越來越多上過我們走讀學校的年輕猶太人可能坐在你旁邊的 shul 或坐在你的安息日餐桌旁。他們應該得到我們所有人的深思熟慮的回應。
年輕的反猶太復國主義猶太人有一個直截了當的問題：為什麼沒有猶太復國主義，我們就不能擁有猶太教？公平的問題。為什麼我們不能有沒有“Hatikva”的走讀學校教育，沒有以色列國旗的猶太教堂，沒有忙於領導 AIPAC 任務到 DC 或前往以色列的拉比，校園裡沒有演講者來捍衛以色列的希勒爾，年輕的猶太人去不屬於以色列出生權的旅行，以及不完全與以色列相關內容的安息日晚餐？
2015 年，我和妻子開始舉辦安息日晚宴。從那時起，我們接待了 500 多位客人，其中大部分是我們以前從未見過的。大多數情況下，我們不知道我們的客人是誰，直到他們走進門，他們也不認識我們。我們有年輕的猶太人渴望成為葉史瓦大學、希伯來聯合學院和 JTS 的拉比。我們歡迎來自不同專業背景和不同國家的客人，甚至還有一些非猶太遊客想要看看紐約安息日餐桌是什麼樣子。我們有來自不同政治領域的客人，其中一些人為從 CAIR 到 AIPAC、猶太復國主義者、反猶太復國主義者的非營利組織專業工作，通常是不關心這兩種選擇的人——所有人都受到歡迎。
這種大帳篷猶太教是我深信不疑的，歡迎所有人的，我們創造了一個歡迎所有人的空間。這就是我們應該擁有的社區結構。所有人都必須受到歡迎——無論是否是猶太復國主義者。如果有一個猶太人恰好認為猶太人不一定需要擁有自己的國家，那麼他們必須繼續成為我們社區中受歡迎的一部分。
新一波反猶太復國主義的猶太人改變了這一切。
新的反猶太復國主義猶太人不像薩特瑪哈西德社區的成員那樣持有神學信仰，即猶太人在奇蹟般的彌賽亞時代之前不應擁有自己的狀態。新的反猶太復國主義猶太人是決定對其他猶太人發動戰爭的猶太人。他們是主張經濟抵制以色列的猶太人，這將剝奪其他猶太人的謀生手段；他們是遊說限制向以色列出售武器的猶太人，扼殺了猶太國家自衛的能力，他們是尋求使公眾輿論反對以色列並尋求在外交上孤立以色列的猶太人。這不是關於以色列在以色列土地上具有所有可能具有的歷史和宗教意義；這是關於對世界上最大的猶太社區發動戰爭。
彼得·貝納特（Peter Beinart）可以對猶太復國主義的含義採取他想要的任何立場。加入 Ben 和 Jerry 積極抵制其他猶太人的運動，無論他們住在綠線內外、烏干達或伊朗，都跨越了紅線。這是我們作為一個社區無法遏制的行為。這讓我們明白為什麼猶太復國主義在沒有宗教授權或啟發的情況下在我們的社區中發揮作用。
無論地點或意識形態如何，總是將猶太人聚集在一起的兩件事是 arevut 的概念——對猶太人同胞福祉的承諾——以及對確保猶太人民未來的必要性的共同信念。美國的猶太機構並沒有突然出現。他們是用巨大的犧牲建造的。
我想起了我的祖父伯納德·波普科拉比，他在 1930 年代奇蹟般地逃離了蘇聯，只是為了幫助建立希勒爾走讀學校和匹茲堡的大部分猶太社區結構，或者想起我的朋友和英雄拉比約瑟夫·波拉克，他在大屠殺成為波士頓大學希勒爾的拉比，並籌集資金建造北美最美麗、最成功的希勒爾住宅之一。由於他們對猶太人民和我們共同的未來的承諾，他們流汗流血。
熱情的反猶太復國主義猶太人有權發表自己的意見，但事實上，他們將巴勒斯坦民族主義的事業置於他們的猶太人同胞之上。你可以同意或不同意他們，但事實是他們已經放棄了另一個原因。他們選擇傷害他們的猶太人同胞，以推進巴勒斯坦事業。他們有權擔任這個職位，但這樣做，他們已經打開了通往我們共同人性的出口。
包括反猶太復國主義的猶太人與猶太復國主義無關；這是關於我們共同的人性。當 Ben and Jerry's 宣布他們將抵制綠線以外的猶太社區時，紐約州參議員 Simcha Eichenstein 和許多其他哈西迪克商店老闆率先譴責該政策並宣布反抵制 Ben and Jerry 的產品。這些哈西德猶太人可能從未參加過以色列日遊行，也可能從未唱過“Hatikva”，但他們知道對我們中的一個人的攻擊就是對我們所有人的攻擊。他們知道被逐出猶太國家的背後是什麼，這與 Achad Ha'am 或占領無關——而是關於成為猶太人。
Finally and very sadly, being an anti-Zionist Jew can no longer be defined by Jews alone. We have seen over this past year increasing incidents of Jewish communities being attacked under the guise of the "Free Palestine" movement. Synagogues were vandalized, Jews of all ideologies have been attacked, and Jewish students on campus have been intimidated. Whether we like it or not, many antisemites and racists use the Palestinian issue as an excuse to physically and verbally attack Jews. Consequentially, anyone lending a hand to the Free Palestine Movement is lending a hand to a movement used to target Jews wherever they are – and that is the crossing of a red line – aligning oneself with organizations and individuals that are harassing Jews on campus, beating hassidic Jews on the streets of New York, and stabbing rabbis in Boston.
由於 COVID 的限制，我不知道我們什麼時候會再次舉辦大型安息日餐。雖然我不相信我們能夠與反猶太復國主義的猶太人共享一個空間，但我確實認為他們應該得到對他們真正問題的答案和解釋。我希望這是許多人中的第一個。
作者是第 11 代拉比，EITAN - 美國以色列猶太人網絡的總裁，教師和作家。他是美國拉比委員會的成員及其執行委員會的成員。
We can not ignore anti-Zionist Jews any longer - opinion
Young anti-Zionist Jews have a straightforward question: Why can't we have Judaism without Zionism?
By ELCHANAN POUPKO
AUGUST 17, 2021 18:36
AN ANTI-ISRAELI Jewish Orthodox activist wears a face mask with the Palestinian flag during a protest near the Israeli Consulate following a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence in the Manhattan borough of New York City in May.
(photo credit: EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERS)
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Who has not seen the PLO flag-wearing Neturei Karta Jews at the Israel Day Parade or any other pro-Israel rally? For decades we either laughed, nodded, dismissed, or were enraged by the anomaly of Jews publicly taking sides against the Jewish state. Yet, at no point did we need to address anti-Zionism in our community as something serious.
That has all changed over the past year. No. It is not just Peter Beinart saying Kinot on Tisha Be'Av for Palestinians displaced in 1948. A growing number of young Jews who have gone to our day schools may sit next to you in shul or be sitting at your Shabbat table. They deserve a thoughtful response from all of us.
Young anti-Zionist Jews have a straightforward question: Why can't we have Judaism without Zionism? Fair question. Why can't we have a day school education with no “Hatikva,” synagogues without Israeli flags upfront, rabbis that are not busy leading AIPAC missions to DC or trips to Israel, Hillel on campus without speakers coming to defend Israel, young Jews going on trips that are not Birthright trips to Israel, and Shabbat dinners that are not all about Israel-related content?
IN 2015 my wife and I began hosting Shabbat dinners. Since then, we have hosted more than 500 guests, most of whom we had never met previously. Most often, we did not know who our guests were until they walked through the door, nor did they know us. We had young Jews aspiring to become rabbis in Yeshiva University, Hebrew Union College and JTS. We welcomed guests from all various professional backgrounds, orientations from different countries and even had some non-Jewish tourists who wanted to see what a New York Shabbat table looked like. We had guests from across the political spectrum, some of whom worked professionally for non-profits from CAIR to AIPAC, Zionists, anti-Zionists, often people who cared for neither option – all were welcome.
This kind of big-tent Judaism is one that I passionately believe in, one in which all are welcome, and we create a space that is welcoming to all. That is the kind of community structure we should have. All must be welcome – Zionist or not. If there is a Jew who happens to have the opinion that Jews don't necessarily need to have a state of their own, they must remain a welcome part of our community.
The new wave of anti-Zionist Jews changed this all.
The new anti-Zionist Jews are not like members of the Satmar Hassidic community who hold the theological belief that Jews should not have a state of their own until a miraculous messianic era. The new anti-Zionist Jews are Jews who have decided to wage war against other Jews. They are Jews who advocate for economic boycotts of Israel, which will rob other Jews of their means of livelihood; they are Jews lobbying to limit weapons sales to Israel, choking the Jewish state's ability to defend itself, they are Jews seeking to tilt public opinion against Israel and seeking to diplomatically isolate Israel. This is not about Israel being in the land of Israel with all of the historical and religious meanings that might have; this is about waging war against the largest Jewish community in the world. It is about taking an active role in seeking to harm other Jews.
Peter Beinart could have taken whatever position he wanted on what the meaning of Zionism is. Joining Ben and Jerry's campaign to actively boycott other Jews, whether they live inside or outside the Green Line, in Uganda or Iran, crosses a red line. It is the kind of behavior we cannot contain as a community. This brings us to why it is that Zionism plays a role in our communities when not religiously mandated or inspired.
Two things that have always brought together Jews regardless of place or ideology have been the concept of arevut – a commitment to the well-being of fellow Jews – and a shared belief in the need to secure the future of the Jewish people. Jewish institutions in America did not just pop up. They were built with immense sacrifices.
I think of my grandfather Rabbi Bernard Poupko who miraculously fled the Soviet Union in the 1930s just to come and help build Hillel Day School and much of the Jewish communal structure in Pittsburgh, or of my friend and hero, Rabbi Joseph Polak, who survived the Holocaust to become the Rabbi of Hillel in Boston University and raise funds to build one of the most beautiful and successful Hillel Houses in North America. They sweated and bled because of their commitment to the Jewish people and our shared future.
PASSIONATE ANTI-ZIONIST Jews are entitled to their opinions, but factually speaking, they have prioritized the cause of Palestinian nationalism over that of their fellow Jews. You can agree with them or disagree with them, but the fact is that they have abdicated one cause for the other. They have chosen to harm their fellow Jews in favor of advancing the Palestinian cause. They are entitled to that position, but by doing so, they have taken the exit door to our shared peoplehood.
Inclusion of anti-Zionist Jews is not about Zionism; it is about our shared peoplehood. When Ben and Jerry's announced they would be boycotting Jewish communities beyond the Green Line, New York State Senator Simcha Eichenstein and many other hassidic store owners were the first to condemn the policy and announce a counter-boycott on Ben and Jerry's products. These hassidic Jews may have never been in the Israel Day Parade and likely never sang “Hatikva,” but they knew that an assault on one of us is an assault on all of us. They knew what was behind the singling out of the Jewish State and that it was not about Achad Ha'am or the occupation – it was about being Jewish.
Finally and very sadly, being an anti-Zionist Jew can no longer be defined by Jews alone. We have seen over this past year increasing incidents of Jewish communities being attacked under the guise of the "Free Palestine" movement. Synagogues were vandalized, Jews of all ideologies have been attacked, and Jewish students on campus have been intimidated. Whether we like it or not, many antisemites and racists use the Palestinian issue as an excuse to physically and verbally attack Jews. Consequentially, anyone lending a hand to the Free Palestine Movement is lending a hand to a movement used to target Jews wherever they are – and that is the crossing of a red line – aligning oneself with organizations and individuals that are harassing Jews on campus, beating hassidic Jews on the streets of New York, and stabbing rabbis in Boston.
With COVID restrictions I don't know when we will be hosting large Shabbat meals again. While I do not believe we will be able to share a space with anti-Zionist Jews, I do think they deserve answers and explanations to the real questions they have. I hope this is the first of many.
The writer is an 11th-generation rabbi, the president of EITAN – The American Israeli Jewish Network, a teacher and an author. He is a member of the Rabbinical Council of America and a member of its executive committee.
以色列導彈襲擊敘利亞真主黨哨所 - 阿拉伯消息來源
以色列國防軍對俄媒體發言人：以色列襲擊了一個軍事哨所，沒有士兵死亡。
通過路透社，耶路撒冷郵報STAFF
2021 年 8 月 17 日 22:49
2020 年 8 月 22 日，從戈蘭高地以色列-敘利亞邊境的本塔爾山看到的新庫奈特拉
（照片來源：YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90）
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據敘利亞阿拉伯通訊社（SANA）報導，晚上 9 點左右，敘利亞庫奈特拉市傳出爆炸聲。
敘利亞媒體聲稱以色列是爆炸的幕後黑手。
阿拉伯新聞機構報導說，以色列導彈襲擊了庫奈特拉北部鄉村哈德爾鎮以西的 Qir al-Nafl 地區。菅直人報告說，向目標發射了兩枚導彈。
Israeli missiles attack Hezbollah posts in Syria - Arab sources
IDF spokesperson to Russian media: Israel attacked an army post, no soldiers were killed.
By REUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
AUGUST 17, 2021 22:49
View of new Quneitra as it seen from Mount Bental, on the Israeli-Syrian border, in the Golan Heights, August 22, 2020
(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)
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Explosions were heard in Quneitra, Syria at approximately 9 p.m., Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.
Syrian media claimed Israel was behind the explosions.
Arab news agencies report that an Israeli missile attack targeted the Qir al-Nafl area, west of the town of Hader in the northern countryside of Quneitra. Kan reported that there were two missiles launched toward the target.
An IDF spokesperson told Russian media that Israel attacked an army post and no soldiers were killed, Kan reported.
"We don't comment on foreign reports," an Israeli military spokesperson told Reuters.
According to the Palestinian Ma'an news agency, reports claim that one of the targets is a Hezbollah post, and another belongs to Iran.
The area near where UN peacekeepers maintain a longstanding ceasefire between Israel and Syria has a strong presence of Iranian-backed militias led by the Lebanese Hezbollah group.
Israel has over the last two years dramatically expanded airstrikes on suspected Iranian targets in Syria to repel what it sees as a stealthy military encroachment by its regional arch-enemy.
Last week, Arab media reported an explosion on a ship at the port of Latakia, Syria.
Earlier this month, Hezbollah in Lebanon fired rockets towards northern Israel. IDF responded with airstrikes to Lebanon.
Israel says it will not allow Iran and its militias to establish a permanent military presence along its borders that would allow Hezbollah to pose a major threat to its security.
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