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EU vs. Hezbollah: is the EU experiencing ‘buyer’s remorse’?
Friday, 2 August 2013, 11:05 am | Franklin Lamb
It may well have seemed like a fine idea at the European Union’s Foreign Ministers cocktail reception in Brussels, where ample alcohol freely flowed the night before last week’s vote to blacklist the “military wing” of Hezbollah. More >>
Caving to White House Pressure - EU vote on Hezbollah
Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 6:16 pm | Franklin Lamb
It was reportedly a hectic and intense past weekend in Washington and London according to an emailed report from a Capitol Hill source, as the Obama and Cameron administrations tracked down and button-holed the leaders of the 28 European Union delegations gathering ... More >>
Is a Civil Rights Intifada Brewing in Lebanon?
Monday, 22 July 2013, 1:14 pm | Franklin Lamb
They are 67 new families, or about 400 Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria, residing in 60 recently erected tents set up as an emergency ‘gathering’ near the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp adjacent to the city of Sidon in southern ... More >>
Is a Civil Rights Intifada Brewing in Lebanon?
Saturday, 20 July 2013, 2:33 pm | Franklin Lamb
They are 67 new families, or about 400 Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria, residing in 60 recently erected tents set up as an emergency ‘gathering’ near the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp adjacent to the city of Sidon in southern ... More >>
“Let’s Cut 'Em Off at the Knees and Let Allah Sort It Out!”
Saturday, 13 July 2013, 12:27 pm | Franklin Lamb
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Assets Control, since March of 2012, is directed by Mr. Adam J. Szubin who more than once has boasted on the sidelines of a Congressional Hearing on Iran and Syria and at last March’s AIPAC’s national ... More >>
The Bomb in My Neighborhood: Syrian War Hits Beirut
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 12:28 pm | Franklin Lamb
This observer’s neighbors seemed to believe, especially over the past year, as most of us did, that the war in Syria would, in one form or another, spill into our neighborhood, Dahiyeh, the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut near the Shatila ... More >>
Egypt After the Coup: Is Obama Backing ElBaradei?
Monday, 8 July 2013, 11:25 am | Franklin Lamb
According to well-connected Washington sources, including a Congressional staffer whose job description includes following political events in Egypt, once it became evident that Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi might well be ousted by Egypt’s Supreme ... More >>
Egypt After the Coup...
Sunday, 7 July 2013, 2:08 pm | Franklin Lamb
According to well-connected Washington sources, including a Congressional staffer whose job description includes following political events in Egypt, once it became evident that Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi might well be ousted by Egypt’s Supreme ... More >>
The White House Threatens To End Aid if Palestine Joins ICC
Saturday, 29 June 2013, 11:02 am | Franklin Lamb
Fatou Bom Bensouda, the Gambian-born deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), was never Washington’s first choice to succeed the inveterately self-promoting elitist ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. More >>
Hezbollah’s Palestinian problem…and vice versa
Monday, 24 June 2013, 12:44 pm | Franklin Lamb
Many Lebanese and Syrian supporters of the region's Resistance culture, increasingly led by Hezbollah, are chastising, for a number of reasons, their former Islamist ally Hamas. Pillorying them with accusations that the latter are ingrates who are ... More >>
Hezbollah’s Palestinian problem………and vice versa
Saturday, 22 June 2013, 11:53 am | Franklin Lamb
culture, increasingly led by Hezbollah, are chastising, for a number of reasons, their former Islamist ally Hamas. Pillorying them with accusations that the latter are ingrates who are creating a host of problems for Hezbollah and its support for ... More >>
Obama Administration: War by Another Name in Syria
Friday, 21 June 2013, 3:34 pm | Franklin Lamb
The Group of Eight leaders meeting in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, having called for an international conference on the ongoing crisis in Syria to be held “as soon as possible” could not agree on much else that might end the civil war anytime ... More >>
The End of Syria as We Know It? Why Obama is Declaring War
Monday, 17 June 2013, 2:30 pm | Franklin Lamb
The short answer is Iran and Hezbollah according to Congressional sources. “The Syrian army’s victory at al-Qusayr was more than the administration could accept given that town’s strategic position in the region. More >>
The West to pay a high price for targeting the Syrian govt
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 11:06 am | Franklin Lamb
A number of analysts and security experts who specialize in intelligence and security subjects in Lebanon and France have expressed this week shock at the way many Western authorities, including several in Europe and the United States, are avoiding engagement ... More >>
US and Israel Lobby reel from Hezbollah al-Qusayr victory
Saturday, 8 June 2013, 1:30 pm | Franklin Lamb
Beirut -- Although al-Qusayr may not be the decisive battle for Syria, it is Irrefutably an important turning point in the crisis which has given the regime much sought military momentum. Plenty of adjectives and some clichés are being bandied about from Washington ... More >>
Syria:EU continues targeting civilians with US-led sanctions
Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 12:59 pm | Franklin Lamb
Under withering pressure from Washington and the UK, the European Union met this week to decide whether to increase the pressure on the Syrian public by repealing the March 2011 arms embargo that was intended to prohibit arms shipments to Syria ... More >>
Hezbollah and the Syrian Pit
Sunday, 26 May 2013, 1:45 pm | Franklin Lamb
During a tour of some of the neighborhoods in Homs with a pre-conflict population of approximately 800,000 located maybe about 22 miles NE of the current hot-spot of al-Qusayr, this observer engaged is a few interesting conversations. More >>
Lebanon’s Palestinians Are Being Pulled into Syria’s War
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 3:58 pm | Franklin Lamb
Historically, Palestinian refugees, wherever they have sought temporary sanctuary following the ethnic cleansing of their country by the 19th century Zionist colonial enterprise, and pending their return to Palestine, have insisted on avoiding local ... More >>
UN General Assembly Vote - Shift in Syrian Public Opinion
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 10:52 am | Franklin Lamb
It’s not hard to find critics of the Assad government in the Governorate (Muhafazat) of Homs or for that matter, to varying degrees in Syria’s other thirteen Governorates according to Syrian analysts interviewed by this observer and reports from human ... More >>
Vote Reflects Shift in Syrian Public Opinion
Saturday, 18 May 2013, 5:13 pm | Franklin Lamb
It’s not hard to find critics of the Assad government in the Governorate (Muhafazat) of Homs or for that matter, to varying degrees in Syria’s other thirteen Governorates according to Syrian analysts interviewed by this observer and reports from human ... More >>
