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Syrian Regime solidifies recent gains

Saturday, 22 February 2014, 5:05 pm | Franklin Lamb

Since around Valentine Day and aided by truly magnificent warm weather for this time of year, the dozens of parks in Damascus have been receiving unusually large numbers of visitors, not least of whom are Syrian soldiers on leave, enjoying the green space ... More >>

How not to get aid into Syria via a UN Resolution

Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 11:23 am | Franklin Lamb

Who authored the seemingly designed-to-fail UN Security Council Draft Resolution on delivering urgent humanitarian aid into the Old City of Homs and other besieged areas of conflict-torn Syria? When we know this, much may become clearer with respect ... More >>

How not to get aid into Homs, Yarmouk,

Sunday, 16 February 2014, 2:31 pm | Franklin Lamb

Who authored the seemingly designed-to-fail UN Security Council Draft Resolution on delivering urgent humanitarian aid into the Old City of Homs and other besieged areas of conflict-torn Syria? When we know this, much may become clearer with respect ... More >>

Are the Warring Parties Playing Round Two of Geneva II?

Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 7:16 pm | Franklin Lamb

As two delegations, one representing the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic, led by Bashar Assad, and the other claiming to represent the popular opposition which is seeking its overthrow, arrived in Switzerland this morning to continue with Round ... More >>

Round Two of Geneva II: A Faux “Humanitarian Pause” in Homs?

Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 11:53 am | Franklin Lamb

As two delegations, one representing the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic, led by Bashar Assad, and the other claiming to represent the popular opposition which is seeking its overthrow, arrived in Switzerland this morning to continue with Round ... More >>

One Food Parcel & One Polio Vaccination at a Time

Saturday, 8 February 2014, 5:42 pm | Franklin Lamb

As of 2/6/14 it’s been seven days since the first humanitarian aid, generally in the form of 56 lb. food parcels packed by UNWRA, the World Food Program, the ICRC or European aid organizations have been able to enter Yarmouk Palestinian refugee ... More >>

Long Odds to Save Their Country: The Syrian Team in Geneva

Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 3:11 pm | Franklin Lamb

As a new workweek begins here is Damascus many citizens across a fairly broad spectrum appear to be backing, and even exhibiting a kind of pride for their diplomatic team at the Geneva II conference. More >>

The Siege of Yarmouk

Saturday, 18 January 2014, 2:00 pm | Franklin Lamb

At the Palestine Embassy in Beirut recently, a young lady showed this observer a video of a gentleman in Yarmouk camp in Damascus. The video showed the man killing and eating a cat. Food ran out in Yarmouk weeks ago, and nearly 18,000 refugees are ... More >>

Pressures Mount for a Palestinian-Hezbollah War in Lebanon

Monday, 13 January 2014, 12:28 pm | Franklin Lamb

It isn’t just the Zionist regime still occupying Palestine six decades after the Nakba; one can sense the carnivorous drooling from Tel Aviv to Amman, from Riyadh and the Gulf Kingdoms all the way to Washington DC and beyond—drooling and salivation ... More >>

A Palestinian-Hezbollah War in Lebanon?

Saturday, 11 January 2014, 3:58 pm | Franklin Lamb

It’s not just the leadership of the Zionist regime still occupying Palestine, six decades after the 1948 Nakba, that appears to be salivating at the current stoking of current tensions between the Palestinian Resistance and in some respects, its ... More >>

Will Lebanon survive 2014? Should it? | Franklin Lamb

Saturday, 4 January 2014, 9:22 am | Franklin Lamb

Another week, another terrorist bombing. It’s beginning to look a lot like that here in Lebanon these days. Another apparent suicide bomber detonated a car rigged with explosives in the southern suburbs yesterday killing at least five people and ... More >>

Privacy Rights - Is Anything Left? | Franklin Lamb

Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 10:57 am | Franklin Lamb

The answer to this question is being pondered across America in light to the two seeming mutually contradictory US Federal Court decisions handed down this month from Courts in Washington DC and New York. More >>

UNRWA’s Bitter Winter Solstice

Monday, 23 December 2013, 8:50 am | Franklin Lamb

It is Winter Solstice in the Levant. This is the day which astronomically marks the reversal of the gradual lengthening of nights and shortening of days—a day which, since ancient times, has been celebrated with festivals, gatherings, rituals, feasting, ... More >>

UNRWA’s Bitter Winter Solstice…and now Dershowitz!

Saturday, 21 December 2013, 8:40 am | Franklin Lamb

At UNWRA offices around the Levant this Winter Solstice, the day which astronomically marks the reversal of the gradual lengthening of nights and shortening of days, ‘winters midterm’, is not being celebrated as it has been since ancient times when festivals, ... More >>

Will Les Clintons Scuttle US/Iran Rapprochement?

Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 11:46 am | Franklin Lamb

In short, they will if they can. And in league with the US Zionist lobby they well might. The Lobby is currently eager to fund and promote an au courant Clinton project, this according to New Orleans sources close to political operative James Carville. More >>

Better 6 Billion than 6 Trillion! Bibi & Bandar Badger Obama

Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 9:44 am | Franklin Lamb

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—along with certain Arab League countries, plus Turkey and Israel, have this past week reportedly committed themselves to raising ... More >>

Better Six Billion than Six Trillion

Saturday, 7 December 2013, 12:00 pm | Franklin Lamb

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—along with certain Arab League countries, plus Turkey and Israel, have this past week reportedly committed themselves to raising ... More >>

Escalation as Sunnis Join Shia in Repudiation

Saturday, 30 November 2013, 11:01 am | Franklin Lamb

Reports from across Syria, and increasing coming in from many areas including Aleppo, Qalamoun and Reqaa lay bare massive crimes being perpetrated against the Syrian people in the name of Islam from areas under Salafist control. A recent German domestic ... More >>

Why Ain al Hilweh?

Saturday, 16 November 2013, 4:16 pm | Franklin Lamb

A modest tempest is brewing in Lebanon among some supporters of Palestine and the US State Department over the decision by the Sabra-Shatila Scholarship Program (SSSP), the newly founded, and American donor-funded, higher education initiative, which ... More >>

Palestinians in Lebanon Aid Their Countrymen Fleeing Syria

Thursday, 14 November 2013, 4:41 pm | Franklin Lamb

The Syrian conflict continues pushing Palestinian refugees from that beleaguered country’s ten official and three unofficial Palestinian camps forcing the majority to flee to Lebanon despite the latter outlawing for Palestinians, illegally expelled ... More >>

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