最近,现年75岁的巴勒斯坦民族权力机构主席阿拉法特的健康状况成了国际社会关注的焦点。继先后传出患有流感和胆结石后,阿拉法特于当地时间10月27日晚病情突然加重,虚弱到无法走路和吞咽食物,并一度昏迷。28日凌晨,情况稍见好转的阿翁参加了在官邸内的晨祈仪式,以稳定人心。目前阿拉法特已接受了医疗小组的建议,准备飞往巴黎接受紧急治疗,这将是他被以色列软禁达两年半以来首次离开拉姆安拉官邸。以色列日前已表示同意阿拉法特前往任何国家的任何医院接受治疗,并承诺将允许他在康复后返回拉姆安拉官邸。
外电报道如下:Ailing Palestinian President Yasser Arafat - too weak to stand, unable to hold down food and spending most of Thursday sleeping - agreed to leave his battered compound for the first time in more than two years and fly to Paris for urgent medical treatment.
The 75-year-old Palestinian leader's planned departure Friday, a decade after he arrived on the West Bank of the Jordan River with the promise of statehood, could mark the end of an era. Arafat, who hoarded power and declined to groom a successor, leaves behind a people in disarray.
Groom有"马夫,新郎,男仆"的含义,在此作动词表示"推荐,培植",例如:groom a presidential candidate(推荐总统候选人);groom her for stardom(培养她成为电影明星)。
美联社指出,一位有威信的巴勒斯坦新领导人的出现需要数年时间。由于巴勒斯坦人没有做好权力交接的准备,一旦阿拉法特出现不测,巴勒斯坦的权力交接几乎不可避免地陷入混乱,这对中东和平进程是一个打击。巴立法委员阿什拉维27日说:"可以预料到的情形是,要么将有一场激烈的权力争斗,要么暂时出现权力断层。"