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Gaddafi Can Stay "in Another Room of the Palace"
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 2:58 pm | Franklin Lamb
One of the jokes heard at this week’s massive pro-government Friday post prayer rally at Green Square (in most of the other Arab countries Fridays are days of rage against the government du jour but in Libya Friday prayers are followed by massive ... More >>
France Says NATO Bombing Has Failed
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 1:26 pm | Franklin Lamb
One of the jokes heard at this week’s massive pro-government Friday post prayer rally at Green Square (in most of the other Arab countries Fridays are days of rage against the government du jour but in Libya Friday prayers are followed by massive ... More >>
NATO's War against Libya's Civilians
Monday, 11 July 2011, 3:08 pm | Franklin Lamb
Briefly noted below are five recent instances of undisputed NATO bombings on Libyan civilians selected because they still among the most frequently discussed by residents of Tripoli. More >>
Libya's Neighborhoods Prepare for NATO's Boots
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 3:40 pm | Franklin Lamb
At ten a.m. Tripoli time on 6/28/11 the Libyan Ministry of Health made available to this observer its compilation entitled “Current Statistics Of Civilian Victims Of Nato Bombardments On Libya, (3/19/11-6/27/11). More >>
Libya's Neighborhoods Prepare for NATO's Boots
Monday, 4 July 2011, 12:33 pm | Franklin Lamb
At ten a.m. Tripoli time on 6/28/11 the Libyan Ministry of Health made available to this observer its compilation entitled “Current Statistics Of Civilian Victims Of Nato Bombardments On Libya, (3/19/11-6/27/11). More >>
“After you Brother!” Qadaffi stays and Obama leaves?
Friday, 1 July 2011, 3:49 pm | Franklin Lamb
The 6/27/11 International Criminal Courts (ICC) arrest warrants issued for Muammar Gadhafi, his son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, and Libya intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi, however pleasing to the “rebels” and NATO, probably won’t have much effect ... More >>
When Hanan Met Peter...
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 3:21 pm | Franklin Lamb
Hanan is the Islamophobic Lebanese woman, Hanan Qahwaji who as a child lived in the South Lebanon village of Maryoun overlooking the Lebanon-Palestine border during three years of the on again off again Lebanese Civil War before she became an Israeli ... More >>
Israelis Rush For Second Passports
Friday, 10 June 2011, 11:50 am | Franklin Lamb
Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to Palestine, where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population prepared to exercise their right to depart, ... More >>
Israelis Rush for Second Passports
Tuesday, 7 June 2011, 12:31 pm | Franklin Lamb
"Perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if political and social trends continue." More >>
Is the Arab Spring spreading to US Congressional staffs?
Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 11:19 am | Franklin Lamb
Millions of American voters were offended this week by the vulgar display on Capitol Hill which witnessed the annual rite of nearly 2/3’s of Members on Congress stumbling over one another at the annual AIPAC Conference in order to ingratiate themselves ... More >>
Majesty and massacre at Maroun al Ras
Thursday, 19 May 2011, 12:32 pm | Franklin Lamb
Franklin Lamb at the Lebanon-Palestine border * * Maroun al Ras is a beautiful hillside Lebanese village on the border with Palestine. 63 years ago today its villagers lifted their lights to welcome ethnically cleansed Palestinians, who were part of the approximately ... More >>
The tide has turned in favor of the Assad government
Monday, 16 May 2011, 10:54 am | Franklin Lamb
As many of us observe the great Arab and Islamic awakening of 2011 in stunned amazement, as it rapidly spreads across the region, this observer agrees with those who declare, “ well it’s about time—Godspeed to the rebels and goodbye to the despots.” More >>
Panic from the Houses of Congress and Aipac?
Monday, 2 May 2011, 12:07 pm | Franklin Lamb
On April 13, 2011, more than a dozen Israel “First, last and always” US congressional leaders from both houses of Congress held an urgent conference call organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Their purpose was to discuss ... More >>
Why the “Obama Doctrine” won’t help the Shias of Bahrain
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 12:51 pm | Franklin Lamb
What Khalidi remains critical of… is what he sees as the Obama administration’s claimed “American values imperative” being made a mockery of whenever American “interests” are brought up to justify cherry picking which brutal despots get ... More >>
Franklin Lamb in Beirut on the latest Wilkileaks
Monday, 11 April 2011, 12:45 pm | Franklin Lamb
Franklin Lamb, a former Assistant Counsel of the US House Judiciary Committee at the US Congress and Professor of International Law at Northwestern College of Law in Oregon, earned his Law Degree at Boston University and his LLM, M.Phil, and PhD ... More >>
Time for Nassrallah and Obama to talk?
Sunday, 27 March 2011, 2:07 am | Franklin Lamb
An experienced Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, to his credit not among the most biased Israeli Hasbara spewers from the Zionist daily, dropped by our Hezbollah neighborhood known as Dahiyeh the other day. More >>
Has The Lebanon Tribunal Drama Become Farce?
Thursday, 10 March 2011, 12:37 pm | Franklin Lamb
This observer had a wild day in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley yesterday. Then again, for one reason or another, it seems that every time I go to the Bekaa it turns into a wild day. It was to be a quick trip to the city of Zahle to attend a trial of a friend ... More >>
In Re Barak, “Bullahs,” Blackwater, Bounties & the STL
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 1:10 pm | Franklin Lamb
When the US marines were in and out of Lebanon in 1983-1984 some of those I met, when visiting their barracks with American journalist Janet Stevens, to discuss Israel’s use of American cluster bombs against civilians had the habit, as did sailors from ... More >>
From Tahrir Square To Shatila Camp
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 11:52 am | Franklin Lamb
The Tahrir Square “Hurriya!” tremors spreading across the Middle East may or may not be impacting today’s events in the historically liberal American state of Wisconsin and other areas of America, yet most of us would agree that the Tunisian-Egyptian ... More >>
As Tahrir Square goes so goes the Middle East?
Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 11:25 am | Franklin Lamb
It is difficult to overstate the potential for Egyptian citizens advancing universal aspirations for freedom, dignity and basic human rights now spreading from the determination of those who for more than a week have risked their lives while inspiring much of ... More >>
