除了宾夕法尼亚州的约翰·费特曼之外，所有民主党参议员周二投票支持一项旨在追究在约旦河西岸杀害美国公民的以色列士兵和定居者责任的措施。此投票显示过去两年该党对以色列立场的巨大转变。
Every Democratic senator except Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman voted on Tuesday for a measure seeking to hold accountable Israeli soldiers and settlers who have killed U.S. citizens in the West Bank. The vote stood as a sign of how much the party’s position on Israel has shifted in the last two years.
费特曼正在利用共和党捐赠者邮件列表筹款。费特曼坚持强硬的亲以色列立场，尽管他的选民中有一名最近被以色列定居者杀害的巴勒斯坦裔美国人，他仍是党内唯一的反对者。
John Fetterman Is Fundraising on GOP Donor Email Lists Fetterman, who takes a hard pro-Israel line, was the lone holdout in his party, despite one of his constituents being the most recent Palestinian American killed in the West Bank by Israeli settlers.
尽管民主党几乎一致支持，但仍不足以通过该措施，参议院以51比47投票否决该决议。该措施本要求国务院报告自2022年以来是否正在调查以色列安全部队或定居者对九名美国公民的杀害。
Near unanimous Democratic support, however, was not enough to secure passage of the measure, with the Senate voting 51–47 against advancing the resolution. The measure would have required the State Department to report on whether it is investigating the killings of nine U.S. citizens by Israeli security forces or settlers since 2022.
虽然该决议旨在聚焦最能引起美国民选官员共情的受害者——即被右翼犹太定居运动杀害的美国公民，但仍遭到参议院共和党人几乎一致的反对。肯塔基州参议员兰德·保罗是唯一投赞成票的共和党成员。
Although the resolution was crafted to focus on victims most sympathetic to U.S. elected officials — American citizens slain at the hands of the right-wing Jewish settlement movement— it still drew nearly universal opposition from Senate Republicans.
最近被定居者杀害的美国公民是来自费城的19岁青年。尽管当地宾夕法尼亚官员呼吁调查，费特曼和他在宾夕法尼亚的共和党同僚参议员戴夫·麦考密克都未投赞成票。
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was the only member of the GOP to vote in favor of it. The most recent U.S. citizen killed by settlers in the West Bank was a 19-year-old from Philadelphia Though local Pennsylvania officials called for an investigation, neither Fetterman nor his Republican counterpart from Pennsylvania, Sen. Dave McCormick, voted for the Senate measure.
以色列士兵在同一地点杀害15名示威者，他们射杀了艾森努尔·艾吉。该决议的发起人，马里兰州民主党参议员克里斯·范霍伦，上周表示，他一直在努力从拜登和特朗普政府获取关于是否正在为在约旦河西岸被杀的美国公民追求正义的信息。
Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Protesters in the Same Place They Shot Aysenur Eygi The resolution’s sponsor, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said last week that he has struggled to get information from both the Biden and Trump administrations about whether they are pursuing justice for U.S. citizens killed in the West Bank.
“拜登政府没有做足够的工作来确保正义，特朗普政府也没有做到足够，”他说。“如果我们无法为美国公民争取问责和正义，那想象一下没有美国护照的巴勒斯坦家庭在他们被杀或村庄被夷平时，争取正义和问责有多么困难。” 设立禁运的范霍伦提案将要求国务院报告其或司法部是否正在调查在约旦河西岸对美国公民的杀害事件，包括巴勒斯坦裔美国记者希琳·阿布·阿克勒（Shireen Abu Akleh）在2022年报道以色列对难民营的袭击时被以色列军队杀害的案件。
“The Biden administration did not do enough to secure justice, and the Trump administration has not done enough,” he said. “And if we can’t get accountability and justice for American citizens, imagine how hard it is for Palestinian families who don’t have a U.S. passport to get justice and accountability when they are killed or their villages get razed.”Setting Up an Embargo Van Hollen’s measure would have required the State Department to report on whether it or the Justice Department are investigating the killings of U.S. citizens in the West Bank, including that of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was slain by the Israeli military while reporting on an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in 2022.
以色列军队继续杀害美国人，而美国官员却给他们通行证。范霍伦的决议还指示国务院报告被以色列监狱或军事拘留所关押的美国公民的情况，并指出佛罗里达州一名16岁巴勒斯坦裔美国男孩长期被囚禁的案例。
Israeli Forces Keep Killing Americans While U.S. Officials Give Them a Pass Van Hollen’s resolution also directed the State Department to report on the status of U.S. citizens held in Israeli prisons or military detention, pointing to the lengthy incarceration of a Palestinian American 16-year-old boy from Florida.
倡导者们希望该决议能帮助他们实现更宏大的目标，然而。根据美国法律，政府被禁止向实施“持续严重侵犯人权模式”的国家出售武器。范霍伦的决议询问以色列的行动是否符合该模式。
Advocates hoped the resolution would help them accomplish much larger aims, however. Under U.S. law, the government is forbidden from selling arms to countries that engage in “a consistent pattern of gross violations” of human rights. Van Hollen’s resolution asks whether Israel’s actions fit that pattern.
在本月早些时候发布的一份政策文件中，亲巴勒斯坦非营利组织IMEU政策项目认为，遵守外援法“将要求停止向以色列出口所有武器，无论是来自美国私人公司还是美国政府，无论采购是否使用美国或外国资金。” 蒂姆·戴恩斯参议员（R-Mt.）在参议院辩论中反对该决议时提到了这一更宏大的目标。
In a policy paper published earlier this month, the pro-Palestine nonprofit IMEU Policy Project argued that abiding by foreign assistance law “would require halting all arms exports to Israel, whether from private U.S. companies or the U.S. government, irrespective of whether purchases are paid for with U.S. or foreign funds.”Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mt., pointed to that larger aim when he argued against the resolution on the Senate floor.
“请不要误会：我们这样做的唯一目的并不是为了伸张正义或追究美国人的责任，”戴恩斯说道，“而是为了在以色列需要的时候切断对它的安全援助。”
“Make no mistake: The sole objective here is not justice or accountability for Americans,” Daines said. “It is to cut off security aid to our ally Israel in its time of need.”
“当然，任何美国人的死亡都是一场悲剧，”戴恩斯继续说道，并表示他“非常相信本届政府会彻底查清这件事的真相。”
“Of course, any loss, all loss of American life is a tragedy,” Daines continued, adding that he was “very confident this administration will get to the bottom of this issue.”
周二的投票主要围绕是否将这项决议从参议院外交关系委员会中移出审议。像范霍伦提出的这类决议属于享有特殊优先权的决议类型，这意味着任何参议员都可以强制要求全体参议员对其进行投票。
Growing Support Tuesday’s vote centered on whether to discharge the resolution from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Resolutions such as the one Van Hollen offered are privileged, meaning that they are the rare type of measure where any senator can force a full floor vote.
特朗普暂停了对以色列定居者的制裁，并威胁要没收那些调查战争罪行的官员的资产。
Trump Halts Sanctions on Israeli Settlers, Threatens to Seize Assets of War Crimes Investigators Van Hollen said last week in a briefing hosted by IMEU Policy Project that his resolution had drawn far more support, in the form of co-sponsorships by other Senate Democrats, than a similar push sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt., in 2024. That measure, brought weeks after the October 7 attacks, drew the support of Paul and just 10 members of the Democratic caucus.
范霍伦上周在IMEU政策项目举办的一场简报会上表示，他的决议获得了更多的支持——许多其他民主党参议员都成为了该决议的共同提案人；相比之下，2024年伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders，来自佛蒙特州）提出的类似提案仅获得了保罗（Paul）以及10名民主党议员的支持。那项提案是在10月7日袭击事件发生几周后提出的。
Since then, Democratic voters have soured on Israel and increasingly support Palestine, according to public opinion polls Mainstream Democrats are also facing off against a Republican in the White House rather than Biden, who generally got a free hand from his own party when it came Israel“While I was pleased that so many of my Democratic colleagues joined this effort, it’s clear the United States must do more,” Van Hollen said in a statement after the vote on Tuesday.
根据民意调查，自那以后，民主党选民对以色列的态度变得愈发负面，越来越多的人开始支持巴勒斯坦。主流民主党人也面临着来自白宫的共和党的挑战，而不是拜登——因为在涉及以色列的问题上，拜登通常能够得到党内成员的全力支持。
“It is our responsibility to ensure recipients of U.S. taxpayer dollars act in line with our laws and our values — this resolution was an opportunity to shed light on a reality that flies in the face of that principle.”
“虽然我很高兴有这么多民主党同事加入了这项努力，但显然美国必须采取更多行动，”范霍伦在周二的投票后表示，“我们有责任确保接受美国纳税人资金的机构或个人的行为符合我们的法律和价值观；这项决议正是揭露这一违背原则的现实的机会。”
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