おはようございます。
イスラエル（現政権）は本当に戦略に長けていますね。周辺の状況はイスラエルの思惑通りになっているように感じます。アメリカはイスラエルの要求を飲み、アラブ諸国の足並みは完全に乱れています。
ところで先日イスラエル関係の記事を漁っていたとき、「イスラエル政府奨学金」なるものを見つけました。日本人学生がイスラエルの大学に短期留学できるシステムのようです。昔イスラエルに留学したいと思った時がありました。
イスラエル軍、 オバマ氏就任式までにガザ撤退完了を目指す
Israel Plans Gaza Pullout by Obama Inauguration (WSJ.com)
The U.S. wants the Palestinian Authority, rather than Hamas, to control Gaza's border crossings. Washington also believes Mr. Abbas should control the flow of any reconstruction aid into Gaza once hostilities end. "The PA comes back to save the people of Gaza," said one Western diplomat in Jerusalem. "That's the narrative."
But boosting Mr. Abbas at the expense of Hamas in any deal would be difficult. Hamas beat Fatah in Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006, and violently overran Gaza the following year. Israel's military pounding and its heavy civilian death toll has boosted empathy for Hamas across much of the Middle East. Mr. Abbas, meanwhile, has been widely criticized across the Arab world for his perceived weak response to Israel's attack.
The meeting (a conference of Arab leaders in Qatar) showed how the Gaza conflict has widened the rift among Middle East leaders, with the Western-leaning leadership, including Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Mr. Abbas, on one side, and Iran and Syria and their proxies including Hamas and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on the other. Saudi Arabia and Egypt stayed away from the Doha meeting, sending representatives instead to a summit of Arab ministers in Kuwait City.
Palestinian Authority: PA、パレスチナ自治政府
to overrun: ～を制圧する
rift among: ～間の亀裂
※米国とアラブ諸国に関する部分を引用しています。
米ペロシ下院議長、オバマ氏と見解に相違 前政権に対する捜査とブッシュ減税撤廃を巡り
Pelosi Appears to Differ With Obama Over Taxes, Bush Probes (WSJ.com)
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to differ from Barack Obama on at least two issues -- tax increases and investigating the Bush administration.
The Democratic House speaker wants Congress to consider repealing President George W. Bush's tax cuts well before they expire in 2010, in contrast to what Obama is proposing.
Also Sunday, Ms. Pelosi said she wants an investigation into whether the Bush administration broke the law when it fired a group of federal prosecutors.
Bush administration: ブッシュ政権
to repeal: 撤廃する
investigation: 捜査
伊フィアット、米クライスラーと提携交渉 クライスラー株35％取得へ
Fiat Considers Stake in Chrysler (WSJ.com)
Italy's Fiat SpA is poised to take a 35% stake in U.S. car maker Chrysler LLC, people familiar with the matter said, in a move aimed at helping both firms weather an economic downturn threatening the survival of some of the auto industry's biggest companies.
Under terms of the deal, Fiat is likely to take a 35% stake by midyear and have the option of taking as much as 55% of the company over time, these people said. Cerberus Capital Management LP, Chrysler's owner, is looking to retain an interest in the U.S. car maker, these people said, adding that it is unclear whether Daimler AG will want to keep its entire 19.9% stake.
At the heart of the potential alliance is an agreement whereby Fiat would share its engine and transmission technology with Chrysler, allowing the U.S. car maker to introduce new, low-emission small-car models to its fleet, the people familiar with the matter said. Fiat would also build and sell its own small cars in the U.S., possibly via Chrysler's U.S. dealership network, thereby extending its reach beyond Europe's car market, these people said.
poised to do: ～する構えだ
aimed at: ～を目的としている
fleet: 販売車種
英政府、金融機関への追加救済策を発表 損失保証で融資促進
U.K. Expands Bank Rescue Plan (WSJ.com)
LONDON – The U.K. government unveiled new additions to its financial rescue plan, in an effort to kick-start lending and quell rising concerns about the health of the country's banking system.
Faced with plunging bank stocks and a worsening economic downturn that the £500 billion ($740 billion) rescue plan has failed to stem, the U.K. government now plans to offer banks a number of new measures, featuring a kind of insurance that would limit their losses on mortgage and other loans. The insurance would be aimed at easing worries about the extent of banks' losses and at reviving the market for securities into which banks repackage the loans.
The institutions that accept the government's help will have to enter legally binding agreements requiring them to lend more money to borrowers, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday. He said the purpose was to spur lending that isn't happening now. "This is not help for the banks but help for businesses and families," Mr. Brown said in a press conference.
to quell rising concerns about: ～への懸念の高まりを抑制する
to fail to stem: ～に歯止めを掛けることに失敗する
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