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November 23, 2009
- <span style="font-weight:bold;">Latent shame over the Jews' failure to stand up to the Nazis is cited as a reason for the success of "Inglourious Basterds." </span>By Matt Beynon Rees - <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/general/091118/israel-holocaust-tarantino-spielberg?page=0,0">GlobalPost</a> JERUSALEM, Israel — Quentin ...
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November 22, 2009
- By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostJERUSALEM — Donald Bostrom, a freelance Swedish journalist who wrote an article this summer accusing Israeli officials of trading in Palestinian organs, came to Israel late last month to defend his piece at a conference on the media.Neither Bostrom, who needed a bodyguard because of the stir his article has caused, nor the media came out looking good.At the ...
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November 13, 2009
- Worn out has-been or drama queen? Interpretations of the Palestinian president's threat to quit vary greatly. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostJERUSALEM — Sometimes a quitter really does quit for good. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, announced last week that he wouldn’t run for re-election in the proposed January elections. Back when he was Yasser Arafat’s deputy in the ...
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October 29, 2009
- Yet another report accuses Israel of human rights abuses, this time for denying Palestinians water. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostJERUSALEM — Human-rights reports condemning Israel’s dealings with the Palestinians have become so frequent of late they’re like the dripping of Chinese water torture.In the last few months, there have been reports on the conduct of Israeli forces in Gaza, on ...
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October 23, 2009
- A parody of a nationalistic Palestinian song ridicules the intractable dispute between Hamas and Fatah leaders. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostRAMALLAH, West Bank — Last week, Hamas and Fatah were on the verge of an agreement to end more than two years of civil strife. Then Hamas tore it up, and both sides went back to tearing apart Palestinian politics.The two main political factions, which ...
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October 15, 2009
- The planned agreement goes some way toward validating Hamas control of the Gaza Strip. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostRAMALLAH, West Bank — Warring Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have drafted an agreement to end their two-year civil war. But U.S. diplomats oppose the deal. Here’s why.The planned agreement, a copy of which GlobalPost obtained from senior Palestinian officials this week, ...
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October 9, 2009
- A brouhaha over who can pray at the Temple Mount recalls a similar disagreement ... that became known as the second intifada. by Matt Beynon Rees on GlobalPostJERUSALEM — I just returned to Jerusalem after a month away. Or at least I thought I did.I suspect I entered a cosmic wormhole that popped me out in the right place — the Israeli capital — only nine years earlier.Muslim leaders claim ...
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September 29, 2009
- On The Daily Beast's Buzz Board, under the headline "Smart People Recommend", Charles M. Sennott, head honcho of the innovative international news site Global Post, plugs THE SAMARITAN'S SECRET: "Matt Beynon Rees’s Palestinian detective novels reveal more truths about the 'Holy Land,' and I use that term loosely, than any straight journalism I’ve ever read [Sennott writes]. He ...
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September 4, 2009
- Palestinians and Israelis take an eternal debate into the classroom, leaving the UN stuck in the middle. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostJERUSALEM — In the Book of Lamentations, the people of Jerusalem cry out against the destruction of the city: “Is any suffering like my suffering?”The answer, of course, is: No. Ever since, Jeremiah’s phrase has pretty much been the catchphrase of the ...
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August 27, 2009
- Tax breaks, smaller government, a rationalized legal system? No, this is a long way from New Jersey. By Matt Beynon Rees, Global PostRAMALLAH — More than two decades after declaring an independent state, the Palestinians now say they may be able to run one.Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat declared an independent Palestinian state at a conference in Algiers in 1988. But ...
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