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Sabra-Shatilla: 30 years after the Massacre
Posted on30. Jan, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
Lebanese politicians still block Palestinian rights By Franklin Lamb Shatila Camp, Beirut We all know it is not just American and Lebanese politicians who use Palestinian refugees as political footballs during electoral campaigns. But they are currently the two most egregious apart from most Zionist politicians in temporarily occupied Palestine. In the US, it would [...]
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Lebanon’s Maid of Darkness
Posted on23. Jan, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
……..facing US hates crimes investigation From Lebanon with Hate By Franklin Lamb Increasingly a marionette of the US Zionist lobby, Ms. Brigitte Gabriel has enjoyed a few lucrative and unobstructed years of increasingly hysterical Muslim and Arab bashing. Recently however, she has attracted the attention of the FBI investigating her organization, “Act for America!” () [...]
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Gadhafi versus NTC
Posted on14. Jan, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
Will a pro-Gadhafi “Green Revolution” topple the NTC? By Franklin Lamb Tripoli This observer was stunned late last week when during a meeting in a Maghreb country with three high ranking former Libyan officials, among hundreds currently in hiding, and some organizing, in countries bordering Libya, one of them, in all earnest, asked me, “Do [...]
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Libya’s Coming Elections
Posted on07. Jan, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
Muslim Brotherhood Strongest Contender in Libya’s Coming Elections By FRANKLIN LAMB Tripoli It appears, from interviews and discussions with a wide range of Libyans including students, lawyers, judges at the Ministry of Justice, shopkeepers and casual acquaintances that the Muslim Brotherhood currently has very little popular support among this pious conservative, Sunni Muslim society. Widely [...]
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Will 2012 Bring Tribal War to Libya?
Posted on01. Jan, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
By Franklin Lamb Tripoli: The weather in Tripoli this New Year’s weekend is unseasonably bone chilling with heavy rains flooding the streets reminding this observer more of dreary London this time of year than the southern Maghreb coast of the Mediterranean. My modest family run neighborhood hotel off Omar Muktar Street is clean and cheap, [...]
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A Tale of Two Squares and Two Movements
Posted on27. Dec, 2011 by Franklin Lamb.
By Franklin Lamb Cairo This observer spent a good part of Christmas Eve divided between two main Cairo Squares, Tahrir and Abassiya, while waiting for a Visa from the Libyan Embassy. A tale of two Squares and two Movements Alexandria, 415 or 416 In the year 415 or 416, on the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, [...]
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Anatomy of a NATO War Crime
Posted on17. Dec, 2011 by Franklin Lamb.
by FRANKLIN LAMB Sorman, Libya It was a warm early Monday morning along the Libyan coast on June 20, 2011. At approximately 0200 GMT the next day in NATO Headquarters in Brussels and 30 minutes later in its media center in Naples, staffers finished tabulating NATO’s 92nd day of aerial attacks on Libya and began [...]
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Stuck in the Chimney
Posted on10. Dec, 2011 by Franklin Lamb.
Jeff Feltman Delivers his Annual Yuletide Gifts to Lebanon by FRANKLIN LAMB South Beirut Over the past few years, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman has sledded into Lebanon bearing gifts during the Yuletide season more regularly than Santa Clause. Yet, as happened yesterday, he somehow manages to finish [...]
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Francis Khoo Kah Siang
Posted on04. Dec, 2011 by Franklin Lamb.
By Franklin Lamb Francis Khoo Kah Siang passed away on November 20, 2011. ? In addition to the countless reasons Francis will be sorely missed by his friends and loved ones, he will be missed because he leaves a void for many of us who were and remain inspired by his work for Palestinian rights. [...]
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International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Posted on03. Dec, 2011 by Franklin Lamb.
On the 64th Anniversary of UN Resolution 181 Lebanon’s Palestinians Continue Their Descent by FRANKLIN LAMB Embassy of Palestine, Tripoli, Libya Every year on November 29, as part of International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Palestinians in Libya as well as approximately a quarter million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, the descendants of more than [...]
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