Word: galileism
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Mohammad Suleiman Abu Sarah, a mosque guard, saw Goldstein, well known to the Muslims as a troublemaker, approach. He was wearing a reserve captain's olive-green army uniform and a yarmulke and carrying a military-issue Galil assault rifle. As a Jew living in the occupied territories, he was entitled to carry the weapon wherever he went. Speaking good Arabic, "he asked to go inside during the prayers," said Abu Sarah. "I said it is forbidden. He said, 'I am the officer in charge here, and I must go in.' " With that, Goldstein swung his rifle butt into...
...shouldn't take a madman to remind the world that Israel and the Palestinians are stumbling toward disaster. Yet a deranged 21-year-old Israeli did just that last week, when he emptied three magazines from a Galil assault rifle into a crowd of unarmed Arab workers near Tel Aviv, killing seven and wounding eleven. The Israeli army promptly imposed curfews on most of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip and called for calm. But outraged Palestinians responded with strikes and stones, demanding revenge. By nightfall, another seven Arabs had been killed and at least 700 wounded...
...pump shotgun in his arms. A revolver is shoved into the waistband of his trousers, and a two-way radio is recharging in a unit near his feet. Down the hall, only a whistle away, are more armed men. Outside city hall, a uniformed policeman shoulders an Israeli-manufactured Galil automatic rifle as he casts a careful eye on passersby...
...Honduras the Israeli-supplied equipment in use by the armed forces includes Galil assault rifles and Super-Mystère jets that Israel bought from France in the mid-1950s, refurbished and sold to Honduras in 1976. Israel is on the verge of selling its Kfir-C2 jet fighter to the Honduran air force, but it must first secure U.S. permission because the Kfirs are equipped with American-built General Electric J79 turbojets. Despite warnings from some U.S. Government quarters that such a deal will simply invite the stationing of Soviet MiGs in Nicaragua and escalate the Central American arms...