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Damascus Report: No ceasefire this Eid al Adha in Syria
Wednesday, 24 October 2012, 12:56 pm | Franklin Lamb
International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who represents the UN and the Arab League, just left Damascus after urging the government and the rebels to observe a 4 day truce over the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, which this year begins at dusk on ... More >>
Women Demand Civil Rights in Lebanon
Monday, 15 October 2012, 1:20 pm | Franklin Lamb
Tehran and Washington are employing competing strategies via their political allies in Lebanon to win 70 seats in next year’s June 2013 parliamentary election, should they actually be held which is looking doubtful to this observer. More >>
Aipac: Israel’s Agent Feeling Squeezed?
Thursday, 4 October 2012, 4:40 pm | Franklin Lamb
The American Israel public affairs committee (AIPAC) has seen headier days according to US congressional staffers forced to work regularly with the pro-Zionist agent of Israel. The grip of fear and the lock on Congress that the Israel first organization ... More >>
New Challenges Grip Lebanon’s Palestinian Camps
Friday, 28 September 2012, 5:24 pm | Franklin Lamb
The Sabra-Shatila Massacre: it seems like a dozen weeks, not 30 years ago. This year American citizens received messages to stay away from Beirut and the annual commemoration of the Israeli facilitated Massacre at Sabra-Shatila from their State Department ... More >>
The Pope and the Palestinians
Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 5:14 pm | Franklin Lamb
The only time this observer recalls Yassir Arafat ever becoming frustrated with the late American journalist Janet Stevens, whom he adored as a daughter, was during a visit in August of 1982 when the PLO leader, mentioned in conversation, as he often ... More >>
Obama surrendered again on Palestine, but will he benefit?
Monday, 10 September 2012, 1:47 pm | Franklin Lamb
As a former law professor President Obama knows something about international law and US constitutional law which he taught at the University of Chicago. But he besmirched his academic bona fides, violated Democratic Party rules and hurt his campaign on ... More >>
Is the Syrian Crisis Being Leveraged to Weaken Hezbollah?
Tuesday, 4 September 2012, 5:59 pm | Franklin Lamb
One would be correct in imagining that life’s no bowl of cherries for Hezbollah these days. Pressures, often intense, resulting in being sucked into the vortex of the powerful maelstrom and violent whirlpool of Lebanese and regional politics can’t ... More >>
Hope and Despair for Lebanon’s Palestinians
Wednesday, 22 August 2012, 5:13 pm | Franklin Lamb
Remarkably, this Ramadan holiday season in Lebanon designees from both the Shia Higher Islamic Shiites Council and the Sunni Dar el Fatwa, figuratively speaking, pointed their binoculars deep into the eastern sky and in almost unheard of unison, proclaimed ... More >>
Is the Sinai Peninsula rejoining the resistance?
Wednesday, 22 August 2012, 4:55 pm | Franklin Lamb
The Sinai Peninsula may be in the process of joining the Arab and Islamic Resistance as this great awakening spreads inexorably across the region toppling Western imposed security states and replacing them with governments of greater popular legitimacy. More >>
Hezbollah’s Arms & the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution
Friday, 3 August 2012, 12:35 pm | Franklin Lamb
From this observer's experience in Lebanon there is only one cosmic like event that is nearly as predicable from Ramlet al Baida beach in Beirut, near Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, than the sun coming up like thunder out of Syria across the eastern ... More >>
Hypocrisy over Hezbollah Arms
Monday, 30 July 2012, 12:24 pm | Franklin Lamb
From this observers experience in Lebanon there is only one cosmic like event that is nearly as predicable from Ramlet al Baida beach in Beirut, near Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, than the sun coming up like thunder out of Syria across the eastern ... More >>
Now’s Not the Time for Hezbollah to Cut-and-Run
Monday, 23 July 2012, 11:23 am | Franklin Lamb
This observer admits that politically speaking, things might appear a bit tough for Hezbollah these days but will spare the dear reader the tedium of a laundry list of what the Party has experienced over the past 20 months in terms of domestic and ... More >>
Israel disses US, seeks ‘bi-lateral alliance’ with Russia
Monday, 9 July 2012, 12:08 pm | Franklin Lamb
Two interpretations by the participants themselves, of what significant international meetings achieved, the first on 6/25/12 and the second five days later, remind us about subjectivity in the eyes of the beholders. More >>
How high will Obama jump for Israel?
Tuesday, 3 July 2012, 2:35 pm | Franklin Lamb
Presidential candidate Barack Obama is being targeted by the US Israel lobby from A to Z, (Ackerman, Gary & Aipac to Zuckerman, Mort & the Zionist Organization of America) as no American President seeking re-election has been in the country’s ... More >>
Are Palestinians Scapegoated Over Army Killings in Lebanon?
Monday, 25 June 2012, 11:33 am | Franklin Lamb
The killings of three Palestinian refugees this past week including Ahmad Qassim from Nahr al Bared ( ‘cold river’) camp near Tripoli and 15 year old Khaled al-Youssef from Ein el Helwe (‘ the beautiful eye’) 30 miles south of Beirut in Saida, and ... More >>
Imam Musa Sadr: Co-Founder of Lebanon’s National Resistance
Thursday, 21 June 2012, 3:06 pm | Franklin Lamb
In early spring 1983, shortly before her death, the American journalist Janet Lee Stevens urged this observer to visit Libya and meet some friends of hers who were active in the Palestine armed resistance. In those days, thanks to Yasser Arafat’s ... More >>
Egypt election results: Palestinian victory, Zionist defeat?
Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 3:00 pm | Franklin Lamb
The official results of the first round of the historic Egyptian presidential elections, the first ever in Mother Egypt where the results were not known in advance, present an encouraging snapshot of “new democratic Egypt” given that close to 50% of ... More >>
Apartheid on the Beach: Racism in Lebanon
Monday, 28 May 2012, 1:38 pm | Franklin Lamb
As many visitors to Lebanon can attest, some Lebanese have the rather charming habit of asking them, “Do you love Lebanon?” One assumes they actually mean to inquire if the visitor likes Lebanon and is enjoying their visit. More >>
Is Jeffrey Feltman Iran’s Best Friend in Lebanon?
Monday, 28 May 2012, 1:26 pm | Franklin Lamb
Key Iranian and American officials arrived in Lebanon last week to assess the strength of their local allies in the fast approaching and crucial legislative elections, the escalating spillover effects of the Syrian uprising in North Lebanon and presumably ... More >>
Egypt Annulled Mubarak's Natural Gas Giveaway
Friday, 18 May 2012, 10:26 am | Franklin Lamb
The Egyptian people are demanding the return of their sovereignty. According to recent opinion surveys they believe it was partially ceded to Israel by the two post-Nasser dictators, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, at the behest of American administrations, ... More >>
