The president of the United States, Donald Trump, made an historic announcement on December 6th, 2017 that upended decades of US foreign policy in the middle east. "Today we finally acknowledged the obvious, that Jerusalem is Israel's capital. This is nothing more, or less, than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do."
美國總統唐納德·特朗普在2017年12月6日發表了歷史性的聲明，顛覆了美國幾十年來在中東的外交政策?！敖裉欤覀兘K于承認了一個顯而易見的事實，即耶路撒冷是以色列的首都。這不過是對現實的一種承認，這也是正確的做法?！?/div>
This sent a shockwave throughout the world and could have potentially damaging results for the israeli-palestinian peace process. But why is this city so important, and what, if anything, does this policy move actually change? We first need to look at the history of the city.
這在全世界掀起了軒然大波，并可能對巴勒斯坦-以色列和平進程產生潛在的破壞性后果。但為什么這個城市如此重要，如果有的話，這一政策舉措到底會引起什么變化？我們首先需要了解這座城市的歷史。
Jerusalem is one of the oldest cities in the world, and one that holds deep religious and cultural significance for many people. Jerusalem is home to the third holiest site in the Islamic faith, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where the prophet Mohammed allegedly ascended into heaven. In Judaism, it's home to the religion's holiest site where the Holy Temple once stood and the Western Wall still stands. And in Christianity, the city is where Jesus was crucified and allegedly resurrected. All of these sites are in a very small portion of the Jerusalem called The Old City.
耶路撒冷是世界上最古老的城市之一，而對許多人來說，它又具有著深刻的宗教和文化意義。耶路撒冷是伊斯蘭信仰中的第三大圣地——阿克薩清真寺所在地，據稱先知穆罕默德就是在那里升天的。在猶太教中，這里是宗教最神圣的遺址所在地，圣殿曾在此處矗立，而西墻仍然在此屹立。在基督教中，這座城市是耶穌被釘在十字架上并據稱復活的地方。所有這些地點都位于耶路撒冷的很小一部分，叫做舊城。
The city has been conquered, destroyed, and rebuilt time after time throughout history and is at the center of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, an armistice was signed that divided the city in half: israel controlled the west, and Jordan controlled the east. But in 1967, during The Six Day War, Israel seized control of East Jerusalem and still occupies that territory. Today, the argument about who should control what parts of city is still one of the most hotly contested issues in peace negotiations.
這座城市在整個歷史中一次又一次地被攻克、摧毀和重建，是長達數十年的巴以沖突的中心。1948年阿拉伯-以色列戰爭后，簽署了停戰協議，將這座城市一分為二：以色列控制了西部，約旦控制了東部。但在1967年的六日戰爭期間，以色列奪取了對東耶路撒冷的控制權，并仍然占領該領土。如今，關于誰應該控制這座城市的哪個地區的爭論仍然是和平談判中爭議最大的問題之一。
But what happens when one of the key mediators in the negotiations takes a step that seems to favor one side over the other? That brings us to the announcement by the Trump administration and why it matters.
但是，當談判的主要調解人之一采取似乎有利于一方而不是另一方的步驟時，會發生什么呢？這就引出了特朗普政府的聲明及其重要性。
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