以色列总统指责英国在总理内塔尼亚胡寻求连任的选举前夕干预其国家政治。
The Israeli president accused Britain of interfering in his country’s politics ahead of an election in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking another term.
以色列总统伊萨克·赫尔佐格指责英国通过制裁干预本国选举，称这些制裁“不公平且具有政治动机”，并敦促欧洲盟友在指责以色列前先与以色列对话。
Israeli President Isaac Herzog accused Britain of intervening in his country’s elections through sanctions he called “unfair and politically motivated,” urging his European allies to talk with Israel before blaming the country.
赫尔佐格周四在接受阿克塞尔·施普林格全球记者网络的扬·菲利普·布尔加德采访时表示：“英国政府对我们实施制裁，我代表我的国家感到非常不安和愤慨。我认为这是一个严重错误。” 本月早些时候，英国外交大臣米利班德宣布，英国将与法国和加拿大一起，禁止贸易源自以色列定居点的商品和部分服务。米利班德还表示，英国将对为定居点扩张提供服务的公司和个人采取行动。
“I was very disturbed and offended on behalf of my nation regarding the sanctions that were laid against us by the U.K. government,” Herzog said Thursday in an interview with Axel Springer Global Reporter Network’s Jan Philipp Burgard. “I think it was a grave mistake.”Earlier this month, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced that Britain, along with France and Canada, would ban the trade of goods and some services originating from Israeli settlements. Miliband also said the U.K. would take action against companies and individuals providing services for settlement expansion.
米利班德随后表示，英国政府同意巴勒斯坦人在约旦河西岸部分地区面临“种族清洗”，并补充说“以色列政府往往对视而不见”。
Miliband then said that the British government agreed that Palestinians were facing “ethnic cleansing” in parts of the West Bank, adding that “all too often the Israeli government has turned a blind eye to this.”