Word: rafik
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army insists it will punish Jews who break the law. But Palestinians say soldiers often stand by idly when settlers attack Arabs. Rafik, 31, who won't disclose his full name for fear of retaliation, recalls an attack on his home in the village of Halhul two weeks ago. Just as the family was finishing breakfast, five heavily armed men stepped from a car with Israeli license plates and unleashed a barrage of insults and indiscriminate gunfire. "It was an expression of raw hatred," says Rafik, pointing to broken windows and mirrors and a dozen bullet holes in the wall...
Another frequently voiced concern was the environment. Rafik Nishanov, the Uzbekistan party chief, complained bitterly about a disastrous drop in the water level of the inland Aral Sea, which has been depleted over the years by efforts to irrigate the arid republics of Central Asia. The chief of a new environmental protection committee, Fyodor Morgun, blamed the "ill-considered drive to build gigantic plants" for a Pandora's box of ecological problems, including air and water pollution...
...RAFIK HALABI is caught in the middle. He is a loyal Israeli, but not a Jew; an Arab, but not a Moslem. Halabi is a Druse, a member of a small religious sect whose members live in Israel, Syria and Lebanon. And since 1974 he has been the West Bank reporter for Israel Television. Halabi's cultural and professional credentials make him uniquely suited to provide a balanced account of the conflict between Israel and the Arabs of the West Bank. His first book, The West Bank Story, does not disappoint this expectation. In it, Halabi offers a compelling...