After Netanyahu’s Victory, Obama Takes off the Gloves
Lesson Brief
Times of Israel
On March 19, The Times of Israel's Arabic edition reported that after Netanyahu's surprise election victory, the US plans to re-assess US-Israel relations. The US change of tone was in response to surprising statements by Netanyahu, such as denying the right of Palestinians to a state and a promise to continue building Israeli settlements.
This set featured a few vocabulary words and phrases that stood out to us. These included:
خَلَعَ اَلْقُفَّازات, يَخْلَعُ اَلْقُفَّازَات - to take off the gloves
وابل التصريحات - a barrage of statements
الكرة في ملعب نتنياهو - the Ball is in Netanyahu's court
Click and Match
- interfering
- التَّدَخُّل
- a strong mandate
- تفويض قوي
- denying
- إِنْكَار
- superficial
- سطحي
- electoral campaign
- الحملة الانتخابية
- aspects of the relations
- جوانب العلاقات
- to defy expectations
- تَحَدَّى التَّوَقُّعَات, يَتَحَدَّى
- to take off the gloves
- خَلَعَ اَلْقُفَّازات, يَخْلَعُ اَلْقُفَّازَات
- to reconcile with
- تَصَالَحَ مع, يَتَصَالَحُ مع
- (here) to go back on/retract
- تَرَاجَعَ عَن, يَتَرَاجَعُ عن