以色列总理本杰明·内塔尼亚胡周五在X平台发布的一段严厉视频回击中反驳了前总统奥巴马的言论，奥巴马此前曾声称以色列偷窃了巴勒斯坦人的土地。
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back at former President Obama after he claimed Israel had stolen Palestinian land.
“犹太人不是在我们祖先土地上的外国占领者，”内塔尼亚胡回应道。
“The Jewish people are not foreign occupiers in the land of our forefathers,” Netanyahu responded in a stern video rebuke posted on X Friday.
奥巴马在周二于北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特O2竞技场的一次付费演讲活动中，在与爱尔兰记者苏珊·麦凯的对话中抨击以色列的建国并为巴勒斯坦恐怖主义辩护，因而成为新闻焦点。该付费演讲活动吸引了约7000人参加。
Obama made headlines when he slammed the founding of Israel and defended Palestinian terrorism in a conversation with Irish journalist Susan McKay during a paid speaking engagement at the O2 Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Tuesday. The paid speaking event drew about 7,000 people.
“他们夺走了人们的土地，并将人们驱逐出去。而这些人理所当然地说，‘这是不公正，我想要我的土地归还，’”奥巴马在先解释欧洲的迫害驱使犹太人寻求在中东庇护之后说道。
“They took land off people and they were expelled. And those people understandably said, ‘This is injustice and I want my land back,'” Obama said, after first explaining that European persecution had driven Jews to seek refuge in the Middle East.
他还指责以色列在加沙对哈马斯的战争中的行为让其在道德上丧失了立足点，这场战争是在恐怖组织哈马斯于2023年10月7日蛮横袭击以色列并造成超过1200人死亡之后发起的。
He also accused Israel of ceding “moral ground” by its conduct in the war against Hamas in Gaza, which was launched after the terrorist group invaded Israel and killed over 1,200 people in their barbaric Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.
“如果以色列的态度是，既然我们现在是该地区最强大、技术最先进的国家，那么我们的安全将仅仅取决于我们做我们认为必要的事、拿我们想要的东西，并且不对任何人做出任何让步，那么这可能在短期内有效，”奥巴马说。
“If the attitude of Israel is, now that we are the strongest, the most technologically advanced in the region, then our security will depend on us simply doing whatever we need and taking whatever we want, and not making any concessions to anyone, that may work short-term,” Obama said.
“但如果你采取这样的立场，那么你就在道德上让步了。”这位第44任美国总统当天早些时候曾获得贝尔法斯特女王大学授予的荣誉博士学位。
“But you have ceded moral ground if that is the position you take.”The 44th president was awarded an honorary doctorate from Queen’s University Belfast earlier that day.
内塔尼亚胡坚决否认以色列偷窃了土地的说法，并表示犹太人是黎凡特地区的原住民。
Netanyahu firmly rejected the idea that Israel had stolen land and said that Jews were indigenous to the Levant.
“我们的土地不是被偷走的土地。这是我们的家园；它被称为犹太。犹太人正是从那里来的。我们与这片土地的联系已有数千年之久，”他说。
“Our land is not stolen land. This is our homeland; it’s called Judea. That’s where Jews come from. We’ve been attached to it for thousands of years,” he said.
以色列总理还声称，犹太国家并不是该地区和平的障碍，并表示以色列的敌人也是美国的敌人。
The Israeli prime minister also claimed that the Jewish State was not the obstacle to peace in the region, and said that Israel’s enemies were also the enemies of the US.
“和平的障碍不是以色列，也不是我们为在自己的国家中生存而进行的斗争，而是我们的敌人和美国的敌人拒绝承认犹太人有权在任何边界内拥有自己的国家，”内塔尼亚胡说。这不是内塔尼亚胡和奥巴马第一次发生冲突。
“The obstacle to peace is not Israel, it’s not our fight for our very right to exist in our own state, it’s the refusal of our enemies, and America’s enemies to recognize the Jewish people’s right to a state of our own, in any boundaries,” Netanyahu said. This is not the first time Netanyahu and Obama have clashed.
两人曾在2011年5月公开发生冲突，当时内塔尼亚胡在椭圆形办公室会议期间反驳奥巴马的主张，奥巴马主张以以色列1967年前的边界为基础进行以巴谈判，并进行双方同意的土地互换。
The two publicly clashed in May 2011, when Netanyahu pushed back during an Oval Office meeting against Obama’s call for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations based on Israel’s pre-1967 borders, with mutually agreed land swaps.