Word: kaffiyeh
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...picks through the destruction of the old stone house near Nablus where his sons Nahid and Sami died last month. Adil is 67. He stoops shakily to pick through the rubble around the shallow indentation in the ground, a yard across, where the tank shell landed. Rearranging his white kaffiyeh with one hand, he reaches out for a piece of silvery metal. It is a foot long with 10 parallel grooves near one end, part of the shell that killed his sons. Nahid and Sami Salman were Tanzim gunmen. They went to this building on the edge of the village...
Over the weekend, bargaining was so slow that delegates escaped to a nearby outlet mall to buy men's clothes and perfume. The 69-year-old Arafat rode a bicycle--the first time in 50 years, he told aides--around the grounds, his trademark checkered kaffiyeh flapping in the breeze, security agents following on a golf cart. It became obvious that any progress would require Clinton's presence; neither side saw value in giving concessions to anyone of lesser rank...
...same time, right-wing extremists had grown increasingly brazen: posters of Rabin in a kaffiyeh, in a Nazi uniform, with blood on his hands, began appearing at rallies protesting the expansion of Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank, which had been dictated by the Oslo accords. Ehud Sprinzak, Israel's leading expert on right-wing Jewish violence, says, "A sense of enormous theological and personal desperation within the settlers, greatly intensified by Arab terrorism, finally produced an image of a monster in Rabin." Netanyahu himself did not help matters when he compared Rabin's Labor Party tactics to those...
...political loyalty rather than credentials. Arafat's brother-in-law is one of the new members of the Palestinian Higher Education Council. Some health-care professionals are outraged that Fathi, the head of the Palestine Red Crescent and the chairman's younger brother (and spitting image, sans beard and kaffiyeh), has been assigned a role encroaching on the turf of Health Minister Riyad Za'noun...
...militant Islamic Jihad, was blown apart by a car bomb in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago, Palestinian fingers pointed to Israel. Many Gazans also blamed Arafat, since the assassination occurred under his watch. At Abed's funeral, the crowd turned on Arafat, called him "collaborator," tugged off his kaffiyeh and forced him out the back door of the mosque...