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Lebanon facing Long ‘Independence’ odds
Sunday, 3 December 2017, 12:53 pm | Franklin Lamb
In many respects the people of Lebanon are gifted if not blessed. Most of whom this observer has been honored to meet are strikingly intelligent, creative, often charming, sometimes cunning and devious, hardworking, ingenious, adaptive, and good natured—much ... More >>
Is Israel Winning “the War Between the Wars”?
Monday, 6 November 2017, 10:08 am | Franklin Lamb
Israeli commanders, stationed along Syria’s southern border and the Golan Heights and Quneitra Valley, with some of their forces now operating daily more than 14 km inside Syrian territory, reportedly are expressing plenty of confidence these days. ... More >>
Giving Palestinians Right to Work Can Save Lebanese Economy
Friday, 27 October 2017, 12:22 pm | Franklin Lamb
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, the offspring of nearly 800,000 ethnically cleansed from their homes in Palestine during the 1948-50 Nakba, are today variously labeled by their Lebanese hosts as refugees or sometimes described as a particular category ... More >>
Hezbollah Launches First Phase of Next Israel-Hezbollah War
Thursday, 28 September 2017, 9:38 am | Franklin Lamb
For Israel, the initial phase of its next long predicted war with Hezbollah is focused on neutralizing Iranian arms shipments to Hezbollah while destroying factories allegedly under construction to build long-range missiles. Some Israeli recently bombed sites ... More >>
The 'Musa Sadr is Alive' Hoax Has Deceived Shia For 39 Years
Thursday, 7 September 2017, 10:18 am | Franklin Lamb
Every year during late August, this observer receives emails from people who love and admire the Iranian born Imam Musa Sadr and his colleagues Sheik Mohammad Yacoub and journalist. Abbas Baddredinne. The three disappeared on August 31, 1978 in Tripoli, ... More >>
Franklin Lamb: Lebanon War - What Price will Hezbollah pay?
Thursday, 17 August 2017, 4:07 pm | Franklin Lamb
Handicapping Israel’s 6th war on Lebanon by Franklin Lamb Oxford, UK Part II Israel’s 6th war on Lebanon: What Price will Hezbollah pay? More >>
Franklin Lamb: Handicapping Israel’s 6th war on Lebanon
Thursday, 17 August 2017, 4:06 pm | Franklin Lamb
For Israel, it’s widely predicted 6th war on Lebanon won’t be a repeat of June 1967, June 1973, or July 2006. More >>
An post-Christian Middle East with or without ISIS?
Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 10:51 am | Franklin Lamb
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)” are reputedly among Jesus’ last words on the Cross at Calvary. Today Christ’s words can be said to apply to all Christians in the Middle East who in this birthplace ... More >>
Another small step for Syrian Refugees in "Aleppo Park"
Friday, 24 February 2017, 5:19 pm | Franklin Lamb
Sunday February 19, 2017 was an unseasonably warm day and frankly an exhilarating relief from the past couple of months of bitter cold and very rough storms across Lebanon. More >>
Life and Death Struggle for the Children of Syria
Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 2:56 pm | Franklin Lamb
Meals for Syrian Children Refugees acknowledges that no one can help every Syrian child during the continuing carnage in their beloved country. But we aver that everyone can have the honor of fulfilling the solemn duty of each of us--to help someone. More >>
Beirut’s new Aleppo Park: A modest victory
Thursday, 26 January 2017, 12:30 pm | Franklin Lamb
A small victory for Syrian refugees in Lebanon was achieved this past weekend as the Beirut, USA and French based NGO, Meals for Syrian Refugees Children Lebanon (MSRCL) dedicated Aleppo Park in a vacant lot south of Beirut's Ramlet El Baida beach ... More >>
Trump’s overture to Putin and Assad may restore relations
Tuesday, 24 January 2017, 2:33 pm | Franklin Lamb
Not for at least three quarters of a century have the American people elected a president who so openly disparages, discards and seemingly abhors the principles, standards, policies, ideas, and institutions at the center of post-WW II US foreign policy. More >>
Obama’s Stellar Effort to Preserve Heritage in Syria
Monday, 16 January 2017, 9:41 am | Franklin Lamb
President Obama's Syria legacy is already being widely debated. In 2009 the former Southside Chicago community organizer and Law Professor entered the White House promising a new direction and vision in the Middle East from that of his predecessor and pledging ... More >>
Will proxy politics bring death for Madaya siblings?
Thursday, 22 December 2016, 4:16 pm | Franklin Lamb
It was this past July that ten year old Ghina and six year old Nagham, old sisters of four year old Manal and three year old Mohammad-Kamal, left their apartment near the main street in Madaya, Syria to collect some medicine from the nearby town’s ... More >>
What is becoming of Syrian families fleeing East Aleppo?
Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 5:26 pm | Franklin Lamb
Aleppo Update: What is becoming of Syrian families fleeing East Aleppo? Franklin Lamb Jibreen Refugee Center, SW of Aleppo More >>
Palestinian Social Fabric Frays in Lebanon's camps
Thursday, 17 November 2016, 4:02 pm | Franklin Lamb
Palestinian Social Fabric Frays in Lebanon's camps as Drug Dealers target Children by Franklin Lamb Shatila Palestinian Camp, Beirut More >>
Franklin Lamb: A Children’s Story from Syria
Tuesday, 6 September 2016, 2:52 pm | Franklin Lamb
How Two Sisters, Ten Year Old Ghina and 8 Year Old Nagham, Survived Three Sniper Bullets in Syria More >>
Villagers Work to Restore Cultural Heritage
Wednesday, 17 August 2016, 5:27 pm | Franklin Lamb
As our cultural heritage in Syria hemorrhages, villagers work to restore it Franklin Lamb Qalamoun Mountains, Syria Reports continue nearly daily of yet more damage to our archeological treasures Syria. A few examples include the recent ISIS destruction ... More >>
Team Clinton Focuses on the Demise of Hezbollah
Tuesday, 9 August 2016, 3:46 pm | Franklin Lamb
Team Clinton Focuses on the Demise of Hezbollah by Franklin Lamb Tel Hara, on the Golan Plain, Syria More >>
Lebanon escalates denial of rights for Palestinian Refugees
Tuesday, 19 July 2016, 4:08 pm | Franklin Lamb
The same “government” that systematically deprives Palestinian refugees in Lebanon of virtually all internationally mandated civil rights as described below is today (7/14/2015) shrieking à la Chicken Little that the sky is falling and that “the ... More >>
