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Matt Beynon Rees is an award-winning crime novelist who lives in Jerusalem. The French magazine L’Express called him “the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine.” As a journalist, Matt covered the Middle East for over a decade for Time, The Scotsman and Newsweek. He was born in Newport, Wales, in 1967 and studied at Oxford University and the University of Maryland. His first Soho novel, THE COLLABORATOR OF BETHLEHEM, won the Crime Writers Association's New Blood Dagger. The Omar Yussef series continues with A GRAVE IN GAZA in 2008 and THE SAMARITAN'S SECRET in Feb. 2009.

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    Memo to Oliver Stone

    In Israel, the Jews control the banks! They fill all the top positions in the media! They are behind all the major political powerbrokers! They even print the money!

    Someone should look into this, Oliver, because I don’t think it’s just coincidence, and I know you’ll agree. I think you’re the man to expose it.

    You said in an interview published this weekend that Hitler was “a Frankenstein,” and then went on to add that the Dr. Frankenstein who created him was an amalgam of U.S., British and German industrialists. You added that the Nazis killed more Russians than Jews and opined that, in spite of this, we tend to think of the Holocaust as a Jewish thing. (You said something else about having “walked in Hitler’s shoes…” but let’s just put that aside for now.)

    On the one hand, Oliver, you’re an oaf who has had to apologize for his “clumsy association” about the Holocaust. Well, the art world needs oafs from time to time. Because on the other hand, Oliver, we all ought to remember that reality is much more sophisticated than the explanations of history which are handed down to us, honed and narrowed until they read very simplistically, ignoring inconvenient facts and allowing people to shout down those who point out such facts.

    Read the rest of this post on my blog The Man of Twists and Turns.

    Posted on Thursday, July 29th, 2010 at 4:26 am

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