State the form of the infinitive. Identify the function of the infinitive. Translate the sentences.

1. The Israeli Prime Minister also gave a hint of the broad outlines of a possible agreement to ease the crisis, suggesting that Israel might now be willing to accept some kind of international body to examine the causes of the latest violence. (I.H.T.)

2. The Israeli prime minister must defend and protect Israeli lives. But he should do his best to bring an end to the violence. (M.T.)

3. A senior Israeli general has warned that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians could continue for years unless Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat takes a tough decision to call to halt the violence. (BBC)

4. Egypt’s decision Tuesday to recall its ambassador from Tel Aviv marks the end of a long period of restraint in the Arab-Israeli relations. (M.T.)

5. The goal, say American officials, is to narrow the gaps between the two sides enough to hold a three-way summit meeting this summer –an event, if it occurs, that Palestinians and Israelis are likening to the Camp David negotiations, mediated by President Carter, that produced a peace accord between Israel and Egypt in the mid-1970s. (I.H.T.)

6. Many Israelis have come to agree that the Jewish settlers living in Palestinians areas have become an obstacle to an eventual peace between the two sides. Thousands of Israeli soldiers are deployed in Palestinian-populated areas of the West Bank and Gaza to protect the settlers and the roads that link the settlements, and the military checkpoints at the entrances to settlements have become the focus of many of the bloody clashes during the uprising that began last September. (W.P.)

7. American secretary of state said the negotiators were to arrive in the United States early in the week to begin open-ended talks. On Wednesday, the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat is to meet with President Clinton at the White House. Mr. Arafat has vowed to declare the independent state of Palestine by September, 13.(I.H.T.)

8. The Palestinian leader dilemma is how to exploit strong Palestinians feeling in ways that will strengthen rather than sink the Oslo process. (G.)

9. ”The basic deal in Oslo was that we gave the Palestinians territory and they gave us a pledge to fight the terrorist organizations from that territory,” the Israeli premier said late last month. (W.P.)

10. An unstated aim of the conference was to find common Palestinian positions before the final-status talks on Jerusalem, refugees and settlements. (F.T.)

11. The British foreign secretary was speaking in Hebron on an unscheduled visit to underline that hope of reviving the peace process requires rapid agreement between Israel and the Palestinians on the disputed and explosive West Bank town. (I.H.T.)

12. Israeli radio said last night that under the “Gaza-Jericho first” proposals, Palestinians would be granted limited self rule if the PLO, in turn, undertook to halt terrorism against Israeli targets and to delete references in its charter to the destruction of the Jewish state. (G.)

13. The implication for the Bush administration is that if policy on Iraq is to change, it would have to change most in the military dimension. (F.T.)

14. Palestinian disillusionment is too deep to be dissipated by new promises. (I.H.T.)

15. A Taliban official in Pakistan, who did not want to be identified, said the Islamic world waited too long to send its scholars to Afghanistan. (The M.T.)

Exercise 9 .