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Lebanon gives Special Rapporteur for Palestine an ear full
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 3:33 pm | Franklin Lamb
The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Professor Richard Falk, came to Lebanon last week on an unofficial visit to survey opinion while fact finding the condition in Palestinian refugee’s camps. More >>
Lebanon greets Richard Falk, with an ear full
Saturday, 11 May 2013, 11:56 am | Franklin Lamb
The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Professor Richard Falk, came to Lebanon last week on an unofficial visit to survey opinion while fact finding the condition in Palestinian refugee’s camps. More >>
Pushing Al Qaeda to Take on Hezbollah
Monday, 29 April 2013, 1:17 pm | Franklin Lamb
“This is one damn fine idea, what took us so long to see a simple solution that was right in front of our eyes for Christ’s sake”, Senator John McCain of “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” and “no-fly zones for Syria” notoriety, reportedly demanded ... More >>
Imam Sadr Case: Is Kuwait Trying to Scapegoat Palestinians?
Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 11:46 am | Franklin Lamb
The Imam Musa Sadr, Sheik Mohammad Yaacoub, and journalist Abbas Badreddine case, like the Tell Tale Heart in Edgar Allen’s Poe novel, will not stop crying out for justice despite more than three decades of political efforts to close the file. More >>
Is Kuwait Trying to Scapegoat the Palestinians?
Saturday, 30 March 2013, 11:51 am | Franklin Lamb
The Imam Musa Sadr, Sheik Mohammad Yaacoub, and journalist Abbas Badreddine case, like the Tell Tale Heart in Edgar Allen’s Poe novel, will not stop crying out for justice despite more than three decades of political efforts to close the file. More >>
Defending our own in Damascus
Tuesday, 19 March 2013, 4:40 pm | Franklin Lamb
It is well known in this region that powerful foreign and domestic forces in nearly every country, but particularly Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, are increasingly acting, for purely political purposes, to ignite a bloody internecine conflict within Islam. More >>
The Oft-Predicted Fickle Syrian ‘Tipping Point’ Has Tipped
Wednesday, 6 March 2013, 12:02 pm | Franklin Lamb
This observer lost count more than a year ago of the sheer number of predictions by analysts and lobbyists that the “tipping point” signaling the Assad government’s collapse was a sure thing and would happen any time now. “It’s just a matter ... More >>
The Oft-Predicted Fickle Syrian ‘Tipping Point’ Has Tipped
Saturday, 2 March 2013, 4:30 pm | Franklin Lamb
Damascus -- This observer lost count more than a year ago of the sheer number of predictions by analysts and lobbyists that the “tipping point” signaling the Assad government’s collapse was a sure thing and would happen any time now. “It’s ... More >>
Syria’s first line of Defense: Dial 133
Saturday, 2 February 2013, 3:17 pm | Franklin Lamb
There are more than 9000 of them. Predominately young but of all ages. Volunteers everyone. Often risking their lives just to come for a twelve hour work-shift, as many as seven days a week at the Syrian Arab Republic Red Crescent Society (SARCS) ... More >>
Assad at the Opera House
Sunday, 13 January 2013, 12:02 pm | Franklin Lamb
Easy walking distance from this observer’s hotel near the city center, the Damascus Opera House, the site of yesterday’s Presidential address, was inaugurated in May of 2004 by the President and his wife. More >>
"Mr. Obama, Tear Down These sanctions!”
Sunday, 13 January 2013, 11:59 am | Franklin Lamb
This observer has learned from time in this region that if one wants to learn what is happening on the ground politically and socially it is fine to speak with government officials, journalists, long tenured academicians, NGOs, and people on the street. More >>
Franklin Lamb: Assad at the Opera House
Tuesday, 8 January 2013, 12:12 pm | Franklin Lamb
Easy walking distance from this observer’s hotel near the city center, the Damascus Opera House, the site of yesterday’s Presidential address, was inaugurated in May of 2004 by the President and his wife, completing a project of his late father, ... More >>
Will Syria Go on the Offensive at The Hague? - Franklin Lamb
Tuesday, 1 January 2013, 10:57 am | Franklin Lamb
Even before the historic 139 to 8 vote of the UN General Assembly on November 29 of this year which opened up a plethora of legal remedies for Palestinians, a “legal intifada” — to borrow a phrase from Francis Boyle, Professor of International ... More >>
Political Grinches Stealing Christmas
Wednesday, 26 December 2012, 7:07 pm | Franklin Lamb
Church of Notre Dame, Damascus. Church officials in Damascus advanced the hour of last night’s traditional Christmas Eve midnight service to 6 pm because few Damascenes’ venture out past sunset these days. The reasons include ubiquitous checkpoints, security ... More >>
Syrian Students Condemn American Led Sanctions
Sunday, 16 December 2012, 9:10 am | Franklin Lamb
“Who does that obnoxious woman think she is?” demanded a staffer who works in the Russian Embassy media office inside the vast windowless soviet style massive high walled compound which belongs to his country, here in Damascus. More >>
Lebanese politicians continue playing the Palestinians
Monday, 10 December 2012, 1:37 pm | Franklin Lamb
The Gaza resistance to last month’s Israeli aggression, and the 138 to 9 UN General Assembly vote, most people of good will might agree, are important “victories” for the nearly 11 million Palestinians ethnically cleaned from their country Palestine ... More >>
Palestine Historic Victory: Another Rejection of Occupation
Thursday, 6 December 2012, 5:23 pm | Franklin Lamb
The United Nations General Assembly vote of 11/29/12, which some in Lebanon’s 12 Palestinian refugee camps are calling a “birth certificate for our country” is the latest of more than 400 UN resolutions on the Question of Palestine and a rare ... More >>
Hamas Victory Affects Civil Rights of Lebanon's Palestinians
Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 10:46 am | Franklin Lamb
The current festive celebrations in Lebanon’s 12 Palestinian refugee camps reflect the intense euphoria being witnessed throughout Gaza and occupied Palestine, Arab and Muslim countries, as well as relief among people of goodwill globally. More >>
Does Lebanon Really Want to Solve Imam Musa Sadr Mystery?
Friday, 23 November 2012, 12:20 pm | Franklin Lamb
Some former Gadaffi officials, among the hundreds lying low in Egypt these days, continue to express remarkable interest in contributing to uncovering the truth surrounding the August 31, 1978 disappearance of Lebanon’s Imam Musa Sadr, Sheik Mohammed Yaacoub, ... More >>
Syrian Volunteers Work Despite Politicizing of Emergency Aid
Monday, 12 November 2012, 5:20 pm | Franklin Lamb
Over the past twenty months, as the Syrian crisis continued beyond most early predictions, this observer learned something about the Syrian people that I had known for decades about Palestinians. And that is their great concern for their countrymen wherever ... More >>
