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Visit Ramallah in Luxury!

Territories' first chain hotel coming soon to West Bank
By Hadara Graubart | 1:02 PM Nov 12, 2009

The first hotel chain to open an outlet in the West Bank will be Swiss company Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, which plans to open a luxury location in Ramallah this fall. Neal Ungerleider, who blogs as “Falafel Mafia” on “entrepreneurial journalism” site True/Slant, says that the hotel is currently hiring staff and will offer “172 ...

Sundown: Poetic Justice for Protesting Pol

Drowning out hate, modest hotels, and biblical blueprints
By Hadara Graubart | 5:00 PM Jul 2, 2009

• Stephan Kuhn, a member of Germany’s Green Party, was arrested in Dresden for blasting klezmer music outside City Hall, drowning out a neo-Nazi meeting. We’re not sure if this is a special rule for politicians, but his $210 fine went to a charity for victims of right-wing violence. [JTA]
• In other Green Party news, ...