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Posted on 10/03/2010 11:07:16 PM PDT by propertius
There was meat grilling on barbecues, children with painted faces, stalls selling crafts and cakes, a stage for live music and even the odd priest wandering about. And everywhere people were clutching glasses of beer in the afternoon sun.
Welcome to the annual beer festival in the rocky landscape of the West Bank, specifically the village of Taybeh, home to the only brewery in the Palestinian territories.
Around 10,000 people were expected to attend the weekend's Oktoberfest, which would make it the biggest since the event began in the Christian-dominated village. It is a mark of the festival's success that the small area around the municipality building was crammed with food stalls doing a lively trade to Palestinian families (both Muslim and Christian), diplomats, aid workers and tourists.
But it was the Taybeh beer itself, briskly selling at 10 shekels (£1.74) for a half-litre glass, that was the star of the show. Made without additives or preservatives and using water from the nearby spring of Ein Samia, Taybeh – which means "delicious" in Arabic – was slipping easily down the throats of thirsty visitors.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Someone is putting some good acid into my drink. Thanks, whoever you are!
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On a serious note, the village does have light and shade in its history - like any place might have. It was apparently named by Saladin, who found the locals very generous. In recent times, there have been communal clashes, of a regretable type, but the villagers do say that this is now a past matter.
Ties between Taybeh and a nearby village were put to the test after a Muslim woman from Deir Jrier was murdered by her family when it was discovered that she was pregnant out of wedlock, and it was alleged that she had a romance with a member of the Khoury family. While the details about what happened beforehand are unclear - some say that the conflict became inflamed when the Khoury family allegedly managed to have the woman's body exhumed without their permission - members of the murdered woman's family took their rage out on Taybeh village, setting fire to 14 houses belonging to the Khoury family. ...
It's a nice story and I wish the Khoury family continued success. However, why describe the village as "Christian-dominated"? Are the poor benighted muzzies forced to knuckle under to foreign masters? It's time to re-assign Ms. Sherwood.
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Taybeh is one of the West Bank towns that has a Palestinian Christian majority (like Bethlehem, if you don’t count the Muslim Palestinian refugees)
Taybeh is one of the West Bank towns that has a Palestinian Christian majority (like Bethlehem, if you don’t count the Muslim Palestinian refugees)
Taybeh is one of the West Bank towns that has a Palestinian Christian majority (like Bethlehem, if you don’t count the Muslim Palestinian refugees)
It’s a fine beer and this is a lovely villiage.
(Yes, I’ve been there.)
Welcome to the annual beer festival in the rocky landscape of the West Bank, specifically the village of Taybeh, home to the only brewery in the Palestinian territories.This should make for a nice round of allah fubar, when the jihad against these beer fans starts. And of course, it's no one's business when Muzzies murder other Muzzies, or murder non-muzzies for that matter. Thanks propertius.
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