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Franklin Lamb: Syria’s Golan Heights
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 1:00 pm | Franklin P Lamb
Nationals from nearly one-third of the 192 member states of the United Nations met in Damascus last week to discuss the Return/Liberation of the Golan Heights. An estimated 5000 researchers, Lawyers, politicians, activists, victims of Israel’s 42 years ... More >>
Under siege: Lebanon’s Palestinians
Friday, 18 September 2009, 3:00 pm | Franklin P Lamb
Author’s note: Yesterday, this observer, along with British surgeon Dr. Swee Ang Chai and Nurse Marion Looi Pok, true global medical heroines during and following the 1982 Massacre at Sabra-Shatila had the honor to pass the afternoon with our longtime ... More >>
Burying Ted Kennedy with the Israeli flag
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 12:30 pm | Franklin P Lamb
Strutting underdressed across the concert stage in Tel Aviv wrapped in an Israel flag on 9/2/09, as her partner, the Brazilian model ‘Jesus’ shouted ‘Viva! Viva!’ off stage was probably just the Material Girl doing her material thing. ... More >>
Israel threatens Lebanon and Obama: Part II
Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 2:54 pm | Franklin P Lamb
Suddenly they were all over the place, arriving not as singles but in battalions. Many, like Maryland’s 5th District Rep. Steny Hoyer had been to Israel nearly a dozen times; career stalwarts once more showing fealty to Israel’s brutal occupation ... More >>
Franklin Lamb: Israel threatens Lebanon and Obama
Monday, 17 August 2009, 3:21 pm | Franklin P Lamb
It’s becoming tense again down along the ‘Blue Line ’ , three years after Israel’s 5th war against Lebanon. Israeli Brig. General. "Alon Friedman" told the Times of London in an interview this week that border tensions between Israel and Lebanon ... More >>
Cleaning up Lebanon’s “Free Gaza Beach”
Monday, 10 August 2009, 3:16 pm | Franklin P Lamb
Sunday morning on the dunes: Why Hezbollah and Americans joined friends and cleaned Lebanon’s “Free Gaza Beach” by Franklin Lamb , Ramlet el Baida, Beirut More >>
Cynthia McKinney honored America on July the 4th
Tuesday, 7 July 2009, 10:04 am | Franklin P Lamb
Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney returned home today after 6 days being held by the government of Israel while attempting with 21 colleagues to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza on the vessel, the Spirit of Humanity. More >>
Remembering Amnon Kapeliouk
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 3:00 pm | Franklin P Lamb
Israeli jounalist Amnon Kapeliouk was my kind of Journalist and my kind of Jew. Sadly, he died the other day and was buried near his birth place in West Jerusalem. For more than 40 years Kapeliouk reported on Palestinian and Arab affairs for half a ... More >>
A United Opposition: Hezbollah After the Elections
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 1:18 pm | Franklin P Lamb
W hile on the surface the pro-US team here did preserve its ‘majority’ the Hezbollah led opposition actually won the election by nearly ten percent of the popular vote. Of approximately 1,495,000 votes cast on June 7, 815,000 voted for the National Lebanese ... More >>
Preacher from Plains & the Ayatollah from Najaf
Monday, 15 June 2009, 10:37 am | Franklin P Lamb
“I will try to get you off the US Terrorism list if you can arrange a meeting for me with Hassan Nasrallah” More >>
Lebanon’s election results and the Age of Resistance
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 1:03 pm | Franklin P Lamb
Hundreds of Muazzen called believers to Lebanon’s Mosques at 3:35 a.m. this morning for the Al Fajr (the Dawn) prayer. The haunting and beautiful strains of “ Allahu Akbar, (God is great) and Ash-‘hadu ana la elaha ella Allah (I bear witness that ... More >>
Obama‘s reception in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley
Monday, 8 June 2009, 11:19 am | Franklin P Lamb
This observer had not planned to watch Obama’s Cairo speech on June 5, since he had an appointment in the plush Bekaa Valley, near Baalbek-Hermel with Shaykh Subhi Tufayli one of the founders of Hezbollah and its first Secretary General. More >>
Down to the Wire in Lebanon: Polling Station Notes
Friday, 5 June 2009, 12:53 pm | Franklin P Lamb
Coming Down to the Wire in Lebanon: Polling Station Notes Franklin Lamb writes from Beirut’s Abdel Kadas Kabbani High School Polling Station More >>
Time for transparency at Der Spiegel?
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 12:15 pm | Franklin P Lamb
The Der Spiegel headline was dramatic. Even provocative. Some Lebanese were surprised but others said they knew it all along. It offered bold “new information” that the strongly pro-Israel German Weekly Der Speigel claimed came from secret sources ... More >>
Palestinian Refugees & Lebanon's Election: Part II
Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 12:01 pm | Franklin P Lamb
Interviews with representatives of Lebanon’s political parties, as they make final preparations to get out the vote, reveal general agreement that for Palestinians here, decades of living in exile are made worse by the continuing discrimination ... More >>
Palestinian Refugees & Lebanon's Election: Part I
Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 4:11 pm | Franklin P Lamb
“My work here is very difficult. To be honest with you there isn’t a single day when I don’t leave work completely depressed, sometimes in tears. The amount of abuse of Palestinians in Lebanon is at a level that you cannot even imagine unless ... More >>
Hillary shatters Condi’s Beirut record
Monday, 27 April 2009, 1:21 pm | Franklin P Lamb
On June 17, 2008, then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice set a remarkable American and World Record for the shortest visit to Lebanon ever recorded by a serving US Secretary of State. The objective was to express love, affection, and non-interference ... More >>
F P Lamb: Has Washington lost Lebanon? (Part II)
Monday, 20 April 2009, 11:14 am | Franklin P Lamb
Some political analysts have argued that historically, Lebanon has been too beckoning to international powers for its own good, too labile, too prone to foreign influence in exchange for payoffs to local potentates. More >>
F P Lamb: Has Washington lost Lebanon? (Part I)
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 1:06 pm | Franklin P Lamb
"We anticipate that the shape of the US assistance programs in Lebanon will be evaluated in the context of Lebanon's parliamentary election results and the policies formed by the new Cabinet” More >>
Who tried to kill Ambassador Abass Zaki and why?
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 11:21 am | Franklin P Lamb
Yesterday afternoon, Kamal Medhat, 58, known in Lebanon’s Palestinian Camps affectionately as ‘Kamal Naji’ a senior member of the Palestinian Fatah movement was killed exiting Mieh Meih Camp by a 25-30 kilogram bomb. The bomb was hidden in a small roadside ... More >>
