哈马斯“阿克萨洪水”恐怖袭击发生三年，随之而来的以色列对加沙的残酷军事打击也已开始，但以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡仍然紧抓着权力不放。戴维·雷姆尼克今日写道，在2023年10月7日事件刚发生后的第一时间，内塔尼亚胡当时“主导了国家历史上最严重的灾难”，这一职位在当时是难以想象的。这位总理的失败仍在不断累积：许多人认为他并未充分致力于解救被哈马斯劫持的人质；同时，他还阻止了政府就未能挫败袭击的安全漏洞进行全面反思。
Three years since Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood terrorist attacks, and the beginning of Israel’s brutal military assault on Gaza which followed, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still clinging to power. It is a position that was unthinkable in the immediate aftermath of October 7, 2023, David Remnick writes today, when it became clear that Netanyahu had presided over “the worst disaster in the history of the state.”The Prime Minister’s failures have continued to mount: he was judged by many as insufficiently committed to freeing the hostages taken by Hamas; and he has prevented a government-wide reckoning about the security lapses that failed to thwart the attacks.
此外，近期的报道表明，他比此前所知的更早意识到这一威胁，但对此他予以否认。在所有这些事件之中，以色列在中东各地的军事行动已削弱了世界各国政府与民众对该国的支持；而在加沙，已有超过七万人丧生。
And recent reporting has suggested that he was more aware of the threat than previously known, which he has denied. Amid all this, Israel’s military campaigns across the Middle East have eroded support for the nation among governments and people around the world; in Gaza, more than seventy thousand people have died.
今年十月，加沙学年初的景象与莫萨布·阿布·托哈童年时的记忆几乎毫无相似之处。阿布·托哈因撰写关于我们刊物中关于巴勒斯坦经历的文章而荣获2025年普利策奖，如今他与家人一同居住在美国纽约州锡拉丘兹。他在文中写道，那些留在加沙的姐妹们的孩子们正经历着严峻的日常和难以想象的恐怖。清晨，他们天未亮便起床排队取水；前往临时用作学校的帐篷途中，有时会被以色列的枪声打断；学生们每周仅能上课三天；学习用品既昂贵又短缺；他的侄子们在一顶大帐篷下学习，“周围是已被炸毁的房屋和成堆的瓦砾”。
This October, the early days of the school year in Gaza bear very little resemblance to the memories that Mosab Abu Toha recalls from his childhood. Abu Toha—who received a 2025 Pulitzer Prize for his essays in our pages about the Palestinian experience and who now lives with his family in Syracuse, New York—writes today about the grim routines and unthinkable horrors experienced by the children of his sisters who have stayed behind. Mornings begin before sunrise, waiting in line for water; walks to tents being used as makeshift schools are sometimes interrupted by Israeli gunfire; students attend lessons just three days a week; school supplies are expensive and scarce; his nephews study under a big tent “surrounded by bombed-out houses and mounds of rubble.”
“今年已是连续第四年，加沙的孩子们被剥夺了一项基本人权，”阿布·托哈写道。“我想知道，在如此毁灭性的环境下，孩子们还能学到多少东西。”
“This year is the fourth in a row in which Gaza’s children are being deprived of a fundamental human right,” Abu Toha writes. “I wonder how much children can learn in such devastating circumstances.”
与此同时，在以色列，10月27日即将举行的选举结果远未确定——内塔尼亚胡最近利用一次被挫败的迪拜航空航班劫持事件，作为凝聚民族主义自豪感的机会。“他会做任何事、说任何话，以转移人们对自身失败的注意力，”雷姆尼克写道。至于这场被许多以色列人视为其一生中最重要的选举，他指出，“几乎任何结果都可能发生。”
In Israel, meanwhile, the outcome of the coming elections on October 27th are far from certain—Netanyahu has recently used the foiled hijacking of a FlyDubai flight as a chance to rally nationalistic pride. “He will do and say anything to deflect attention from his failures,” Remnick writes. And as for the election, which many Israelis have judged the most consequential in their lifetimes, he notes, “damn near anything could happen.”Beginning in 2022, companies involved in the manufacture and distribution of prescription opioids agreed to pay around fifty billion dollars to all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
自2022年起，参与处方阿片类药物制造和分销的公司同意向美国全部五十个州和哥伦比亚特区支付约五十亿美元。虽然部分资金已用于康复项目，但在西弗吉尼亚州等州，2024年和2025年拨给地方政府的资金中，近一半被用于警车和射击场等一般性执法开支。
And while some of the money has gone to recovery programs, in states such as West Virginia, nearly half of the money allocated to local governments in 2024 and 2025 was being spent on general law-enforcement expenses like squad cars and shooting ranges. Meanwhile, organizers and directors of programs to support people in recovery, or in active addiction, are finding it difficult to secure funding, Oliver Whang reports. Read or listen to the story » Our latest short documentary, “Fear Fokol,” goes inside South Africa’s rapidly growing private-security industry, which employs armed patrolmen to protect Johannesburg’s wealthy neighborhoods.
与此同时，奥利弗·旺报道称，为康复中或正在积极戒瘾的人们提供支持的项目组织者和负责人，正面临难以获得资金的困境。阅读或收听这篇报道 » 我们最新的短篇纪录片《恐惧的焦点》深入探讨了南非迅速发展的私营安保行业，该行业雇佣武装巡逻员来保护约翰内斯堡的富裕社区。
Yesterday, the couple at the center of the surrogacy scandal covered in the latest series from our investigative podcast, In the Dark, was arrested outside Los Angeles, on charges including conspiracy to commit child abuse. Listen to “The Journey,” which lays out the shocking case, and read Ava Kofman’s earlier reporting on the story.
昨天，我们调查类播客《黑暗之中》最新系列报道中涉及代孕丑闻的那对夫妇在洛杉矶外被捕，罪名包括共谋虐待儿童。收听《旅程》，了解这起令人震惊的案件，并阅读艾娃·科夫曼此前对此事的报道。
In Ethiopia, a long-simmering conflict recently exploded into open war. It’s been made all the more fraught by a complicated constellation of schemes and interests in the broader region, Ishaan Tharoor writes.
在埃塞俄比亚，一场长期潜伏的冲突最近演变为公开战争。伊沙安·塔鲁尔写道，更复杂的地区性阴谋和利益交织，使局势变得更加紧张。昨天新闻通讯中点击量最高的内容是关于为何疾病如此难以书写。
The most-clicked item in yesterday’s newsletter was about why illness is so hard to write about.
一本书：如果你喜欢《伊甸之东》，英库·康推荐你阅读闵珍李的《柏青哥》，这部作品跨越近一个世纪，探讨了日本殖民朝鲜对一个家庭产生的影响。
A book: If you loved “East of Eden,” Inkoo Kang recommends picking up Min Jin Lee’s “Pachinko,” a nearly century-spanning exploration of the effects on one family of Japan’s colonization of Korea.
一道菜：特鲁迪酒馆的羊肉排“让我想起一个可能出现在繁茂而略带阴郁的中欧民间故事中的餐点”，海伦·罗斯纳写道，“同时也让我想起一点牛仔风格的炸鸡排牛排”。一部剧：在曼哈顿索霍剧院上演的《艾尔夫·莱昂斯是那个濒临崩溃的女人》，是对爱与心碎的真实、荒诞而充满激情的探索。
A bite: At Trudie’s Tavern, the lamb schnitzel “put me in mind of a meal that might be found in a lush and gently ominous Mitteleuropa folk tale,” Helen Rosner writes, “and also, a little bit, of a cowboy-style chicken-fried steak.”A show: “Elf Lyons Is the Woman on the Edge,” at SoHo Playhouse, in Manhattan, is a genuine, absurd, and furious exploration of love and heartbreak.
今日填字游戏：一个长鼻子、名字听起来古怪的玛波玩偶——五个字母。\ 目录：你能将这些项目按正确顺序排列吗？\ 混乱字母：你能用每个新字母组成更长的单词吗？\ 笑点：测试你对《纽约客》经典漫画的了解。
Today’s Crossword Puzzle: Muppet with a long nose and a wacky-sounding name—five letters.\ Catalogues: Can you sort the items into the correct order?\ Shuffalo: Can you make a longer word with each new letter?\ Laugh Lines: Test your knowledge of classic New Yorker cartoons.
附言：请阅读莫萨布·阿布·托哈的诗歌《讣告》：“致我穿越边境前独自留下的那个影子，/ 我那孤独地留在黑夜黑暗中的影子，/ 原封不动地冻结在那里，/ 从不需要签证。”奥斯汀·埃利亚斯-德·赫苏斯为今日版内容做出了贡献。
P.S. Read the poem “Obit,” by Mosab Abu Toha: “To the shadow I had left alone before I / crossed the border, my shadow that stayed / lonely and hid in the dark of the night, / freezing where it was, never needing a visa.”Austin Elias-de Jesus contributed to today’s edition.