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As Tahrir Square goes so goes the Middle East?
Saturday, 5 February 2011, 6:42 pm | 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 >>
Hezbollah is the New Government of Lebanon. Now What?
Saturday, 29 January 2011, 6:46 pm | Franklin Lamb
Hezbollah is the New Government of Lebanon. Now What? FRANKLIN LAMB Beirut This observer tends to get a haircut about every four months whether I need it or not. But this morning I got more than a trim from my Hezbollah friend and barber, Abass, named ... More >>
Fatal Detraction?
Saturday, 22 January 2011, 1:44 pm | Franklin Lamb
http://www.almanar.com.lb/newssite/news.aspx?language=en Franklin Lamb Beirut It appears that no acceptable compromise regarding the divergent Lebanese political stances relative to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) will be achieved. Support ... More >>
What now for Lebanon?
Monday, 17 January 2011, 10:29 am | Franklin Lamb
South Beirut - Informed Congressional sources in Washington DC today are confirming that the White House has informed Congressional Committee Chairpersons and American allies that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) will indict Supreme Leader, Ayatollah ... More >>
What's Next in Lebanon?
Sunday, 16 January 2011, 10:08 pm | Franklin Lamb
January 13, 2011 What's Next in Lebanon? Why Hezbollah Walked By FRANKLIN LAMB "In case no one has noticed, the Obama administration just gifted Lebanon to Iran. Washington earlier presented Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gulf, and Pakistan. Could it be more clear ... More >>
Franklin Lamb: Why Hezbollah walked
Friday, 14 January 2011, 10:53 am | Franklin Lamb
“ In case no one has noticed, the Obama administration just gifted Lebanon to Iran. Washington earlier presented Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gulf, and Pakistan. Could it be more clear that Iran’s strategic trump card is America’s subservience to Israel? ... More >>
EU can alleviate widespread suffering in Lebanon
Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 9:59 am | Franklin Lamb
The Palestine Civil Rights Campaign—Lebanon (PCRC) was organized in Washington DC and Beirut, Lebanon in late 2009 with the goal of achieving, in concert with Lebanese based NGOs, the enactment in Lebanon’s parliament of two basic civil rights for ... More >>
How Israel And the US Hope to Destroy Hezbollah
Monday, 22 November 2010, 1:51 pm | Franklin Lamb
"I’ve got these [expletive deleted] just where we want them Maura! Watch the 1000 slow cuts as we shred Hezbollah–who do they think they are? And we’ll do it by using 1757 and this time we’re going all the way. I told Israel to stay out of ... More >>
Israel claims victory in the US midterm elections
Sunday, 14 November 2010, 11:34 am | Franklin Lamb
The Republican party’s gain of 60 plus House Seats (10 seats, all held by Democrats, are still undecided at press time) and six Senate seats, is the largest Congressional increase for either party since 1948 when the Democrats gained 75 seats in the lower ... More >>
Israel claims victory in the US midterm elections
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 5:57 pm | Franklin Lamb
The Republican party’s gain of 60 plus House Seats (10 seats, all held by Democrats, are still undecided at press time) and six Senate seats, is the largest Congressional increase for either party since 1948 when the Democrats gained 75 seats in the lower ... More >>
Franklin Lamb: Will Hezbollah leash ‘Nabi’?
Monday, 2 August 2010, 10:00 pm | Franklin Lamb
For months as Lebanon’s historic debate over basic civil rights for Palestinian refugees has unfolded, the Obama administration has watched idly along the sidelines. As hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees cough and slow-bake while inhaling ... More >>
Legislating for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Monday, 17 May 2010, 12:47 pm | Franklin Lamb
The current relationship between the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Hezbollah is not as clear cut as often assumed, despite the frequent inspiring brotherly words of Hezbollah’s leadership and the fact that the Party enjoys the support of more ... More >>
Franklin Lamb: Can Lebanon come in from the Cold?
Saturday, 10 April 2010, 12:12 pm | Franklin Lamb
Granting even the most elementary and normally taken for granted civil rights to Palestinians in Lebanon won’t be easy and it may not be pretty. Yet there is undeniable and growing Lebanese and international resolve for Lebanon’s politicians to end ... More >>
Franklin Lamb: Clinton’s final offer to Iran
Monday, 22 February 2010, 2:00 pm | Franklin Lamb
“The current situation in the region was David Welch’s worst nightmare and he saw it coming!, explained a demonstrably frustrated US Embassy staffer in Beirut as she mused about what Hilary Clinton was really doing in the region this week. More >>
Why doesn’t the US Embassy in Beirut ‘get it’?
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 2:34 pm | Franklin Lamb
It is being reported in Beirut this morning that at exactly 3 a.m. Beirut time, a supporter of the National Lebanese Resistance led by Hezbollah, on duty above the Mediterranean coastal town of Saadyat, between Damour and Saida was watching the ... More >>
Congress Targeting TV Critical of Israel: Part I
Sunday, 27 December 2009, 12:13 pm | Franklin Lamb
“Regarding Al Manar it’s personal for Israel. The reason is that Al Manar did to the Israeli government propaganda machine during and following the July 2006 war what Hezbollah fighters did to Israeli troops. Al Manar kicked butt. That station ... More >>
Christmas Guide to Washington’s new Lebanon policy
Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 12:33 pm | Franklin Lamb
Lebanon’s first Sunday morning in December was cold, cloudy and rainy as this politically exhausted country’s’ new Prime Minister, Saad Eddine Hariri, donned a gray track suit, with matching Nike running shoes and joined hundreds of pro-Hezbollah runners, ... More >>
Lebanonizing Hezbollah or the obverse?
Friday, 4 December 2009, 12:25 pm | Franklin Lamb
Like many liberation and resistant movement ‘Manifestos’ ‘Charters’ or ‘Declarations’ issued to the public early in its founding - the African National Congress, Palestine Liberation Organization , Hamas, Algerian FLN, and various “Sons of Liberty” ... More >>
Lebanese students advise Obama how to get it right
Monday, 16 November 2009, 11:12 am | Franklin Lamb
If those in Lebanon watching the news on 11/12/09 blinked they might have missed an interesting news item. It appeared at approximately 4:20 pm on Narharnet.com , the pro-US/Saudi news website. More >>
Where Do The Two June Elections Leave Hezbollah?
Sunday, 28 June 2009, 3:37 pm | Franklin Lamb
Some Legmen for the US Israeli lobby, and even some here in Lebanon appear barely able to contain themselves, such is their felt glee over the Lebanese and Iranian election results. Some supporters of Israel see this election as two recent victories ... More >>
