Teenage hero determined to struggle

Palestinian teen freed from Israel jail plans to continue resistance against occupation as lawyer

APalestinian teenager released by Israel on Sunday, July 29 after completing a prison term for kicking and slapping an Israeli soldier said she wanted to become a lawyer so she could continue her struggle against the occupation of the West Bank. Ahed Tamimi, 17, became a hero to Palestinians after the incident last December outside her home in Nabi Saleh, a village that has for years campaigned against land seizures by Israel, leading to confrontations with the Israeli military and Jewish settlers. Israelis regardedthe incident, which Tamimi’s mother relayed live on Facebook, as a staged provocation.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described Tamimi as „a model of peaceful civil resistance …, proving to the world that our Palestinian people will stand firm and constant on their land, no matter what the sacrifice“. Wearing her trademark black-and-white chequered Arab scarf when she returned home, Tamimi greeted dozens of well-wishers. Outside the home of a villager killed by Israeli forces, she urged continued struggle against Israel’s occupation.

At a news conference later, she spoke in front of a bare two-pronged tree that had been shaped like a giant slingshot, with the trunk covered in a Palestinian flag and with a tyre at its base. „I will continue my university tuition and I will study law so that I can address the cause of my country in all of the international forums,“ Tamimi said. „Prison taught me a lot of things, I was able to figure out the right way to deliver the message of my homeland.“

Tamimi, who was 16 at the time of her detention, faced 12 charges but in March pleaded guilty to a reduced charge sheet that included assault. She was sentenced to eight months, dating back to December.

Israeli police said two Italian artists arrested by border police on Saturday, July 28 after they drew a mural of Tamimi on the wall in the West Bank town of Bethlehem must leave the country within 72 hours or be deported. The two and a Palestinian were arrested while trying to escape in their car „on suspicion of defacing the wall on the Palestinian side after they were seen painting on it while their faces were covered“, a police statement said. Palestinians want the West Bank for a future state, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Most countries consider Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be illegal, something Israel disputes. U. S. -sponsored negotiations on founding a Palestinian state alongside Israel have been stalled since 2014. Tamimi’s case drew global attention and Amnesty International said her sentence was at odds with international law.

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SLOVÍČKA

release propustit

slap dát facku

struggle boj, zápas

seizure obsazení

relay přenášet vysílání

stand firm stát si za svým

no matter what bez ohledu na

sacrifice oběť

chequered kostkovaný

well-wisher příznivec

slingshot prak

trunk kmen

tyre pneumatika

tuition výuka

cause věc, záležitost

figure out vymyslet, přijít na

detention uvěznění, zadržení

charge obvinění

plead guilty přiznat vinu

assault napadení

sentence odsoudit

arrest zatknout

mural nástěnná malba

deface poničit kresbou

dispute přít se, být ve sporu

stall pozastavit

at odds v rozporu

NAUČTE SE GRAMATIKU PODLE TEXTU

Dnes se zaměříme na ustálená slovní spojení obsahující sloveso + attention. Všimli jsme si ho v poslední větě „Tamimi’s case drew global attention…“ („Případ Tamimiové upoutal celosvětovou pozornost…“).

Pozornost je dnes často skloňovaným výrazem. Můžeme ji získat, přitahovat, věnovat, zaměřit, udržet, odvést, ztratit a podobně. Pokuste se v následujícím cvičení přiřadit anglická a česká spojení.

PŘIŘAĎTE:

1. pay attention 2. receive attention 3. focus attention 4. shift attention 5. hold attention 6. attract atte

ntion 7. direct attention 8. distract attention 9. turn attention

a. přesunout pozornost b. získat pozornost c. přitahovat pozornost .věnovat pozornost e. nasměrovat pozornost f. udržet pozornost g .zaměřit pozornost h. obrátit pozornost i. odvést pozornost