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Egypt just annulled Mubarak’s natural gas giveaway
Tuesday, 1 May 2012, 12:41 pm | 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 >>
How many walls will secure the Zionist regime in Palestine?
Thursday, 26 April 2012, 9:59 am | Franklin Lamb
It may be that researchers would want to examine as long ago as the period from the 3rd century BC until the beginning of the 17th century in order to find a regime so frenetically building walls and barriers in a hopeless quest to hold onto stolen ... More >>
Iran/Israel in Mutual Assured Destruction deterence status
Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 11:21 am | Franklin Lamb
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), the doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the potential annihilation of both the attacker and the ... More >>
Lebanon: Feltman Pledges Hezbollah Defeat in 2013 Campaign
Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 12:08 pm | Franklin Lamb
One fellow who works at the Beirut US Embassy tells the story of how, each year around the time of the vernal equinox, since 2005 when Jeffrey Feltman became the American Ambassador (given Jeff’s domination of US Middle East Policy, he is still essentially ... More >>
Perceptions of the Syrian uprising from Shatila camp
Friday, 16 March 2012, 10:38 am | Franklin Lamb
Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, despite being targeted over the past six decades for numerous crimes including massacres from various sources, in many ways is representative of all the Palestinian camps in Lebanon. More >>
What Iran Can Do for Lebanon’s Palestinians
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 12:32 pm | Franklin Lamb
Around noon on Tuesday September 14, 1982, the day before Israel greenlite the launch of the three day Sabra-Shatila Massacre, two white vans pulled into Rue Sabra, diagonal from Akka Palestinian Hospital (PCRS), the main Shatila camp road. Mrs. Halabi, a ... More >>
How Real is the Green? Rumor and Anger Mount in Libya
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 2:40 pm | Franklin Lamb
This observer was stunned late last week when during a meeting in a Maghreb country with three high ranking former Libyan officials, among hundreds currently in hiding, and some organizing, in countries bordering Libya, one of them, in all earnest, asked ... More >>
Muslim Brotherhood Strongest Contender in Libya
Sunday, 8 January 2012, 3:36 pm | Franklin Lamb
It appears, from interviews and discussions with a wide range of Libyans including students, lawyers, judges at the Ministry of Justice, shopkeepers and casual acquaintances that the Muslim Brotherhood currently has very little popular support among this ... More >>
Will 2012 Bring Tribal War to Libya?
Tuesday, 3 January 2012, 11:06 am | Franklin Lamb
The weather in Tripoli this New Year’s weekend is unseasonably bone chilling with heavy rains flooding the streets reminding this observer more of dreary London this time of year than the southern Maghreb coast of the Mediterranean. My modest family ... More >>
Anatomy of a NATO War Crime
Sunday, 18 December 2011, 3:10 pm | Franklin Lamb
It was a warm early Monday morning along the Libyan coast on June 20, 2011. At approximately 0200 GMT the next day in NATO Headquarters in Brussels and 30 minutes later in its media center in Naples, staffers finished tabulating NATO’s 92nd day of aerial ... More >>
Jeff Feltman Delivers his Annual Yuletide Gifts to Lebanon
Sunday, 11 December 2011, 12:47 pm | Franklin Lamb
Over the past few years, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman has sledded into Lebanon bearing gifts during the Yuletide season more regularly than Santa Clause. Yet, as happened yesterday, he somehow manages ... More >>
Francis Khoo Kah Siang:Advocate of Justice for Palestinians
Thursday, 8 December 2011, 12:13 pm | Franklin Lamb
Francis Khoo Kah Siang passed away on November 20, 2011. In addition to the countless reasons Francis will be sorely missed by his friends and loved ones, he will be missed because he leaves a void for many of us who were and remain inspired by his work ... More >>
Lebanon's Palestinians Continue Their Descent
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 12:35 pm | Franklin Lamb
Every year on November 29, as part of International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Palestinians in Libya as well as approximately a quarter million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, the descendants of more than 129,000 who were forced into Lebanon ... More >>
The Troubling Case of Saif Gadhafi
Monday, 28 November 2011, 9:59 am | Franklin Lamb
Despite the claims of the National Transitional Council of Libya (NTC) that Saif al Islam Gadhafi, the apprehended subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant that ordered his transport to The Hague, is in a secure hidden location near ... More >>
Libya:Will UN insist on Fair Trials for Ex-Regime Loyalists?
Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 4:43 pm | Franklin Lamb
An affable gentleman, “Mahmoud” ushered this observer into the Benghazi People’s Court (Mahkamat al-Sha’b) and showed me the freshly painted courtroom where on December 19, 2006, the current NTC leader and long term CIA favorite, Mustafa Abdul ... More >>
Bad Moon Rising Over Great Sirte Bay
Monday, 21 November 2011, 2:47 pm | Franklin Lamb
This observer, with his sandaled feet comfortably dug into the sand of a chilly Mediterranean beach and huddled next to a camp fire with a congenial and bright group of still heavily armed “NATO rebels,” is learning that the past eight months’ experiences ... More >>
Terror and Revenge Engulfs NATO’s Libya
Monday, 14 November 2011, 5:16 pm | Franklin Lamb
The “new Libya” has entered its own “Terror” which is spreading inexorably, aided by NATO member states including American, French and British SAS units known locally as “disappearance squads”. This is one of the rapidly developing consequences ... More >>
Amnesty International's Syrian Hospitals "Investigation"
Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 1:39 pm | Franklin Lamb
This observer counts himself among Amnesty International’s more than 3 million supporters and members in more than 150 countries and territories who also strongly endorse AI’s campaigns to end grave abuses of human rights. I share AI’s vision ... More >>
Revulsion, resistance & angry words from Tripoli University
Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 9:51 am | Franklin Lamb
The people I had hoped most to be able to find on returning to Libya were eight students from Fatah University (now renamed Tripoli University) who became my friends during three months in Libya this summer. They had all been strongly opposed to what NATO ... More >>
Will Seif al Islam Gadhafi survive to have his day in court
Saturday, 22 October 2011, 3:30 pm | Franklin Lamb
Targeted for assassination by NATO? Will Seif al Islam Gadhafi survive to have his day in court? Franklin Lamb More >>
