Saturday Middle East Report

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Libya: France Says NATO Bombing Has Failed

by Franklin P. Lamb

Tripoli (Libya) | 11 July 2011

French Defense Minister Gérard Longuet
One of the jokes heard at this week’s massive pro-government Friday post prayer rally at Green Square (in most of the other Arab countries Fridays are days of rage against the government du jour but in Libya Friday prayers are followed by massive (...)

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Libya’s neighborhoods prepare for NATO boots

by Franklin P. Lamb

Tripoli (Libya) | 1 July 2011

Franklin Lamb in Tripoli © Voltaire Network
At ten a.m. Tripoli time on 6/28/11 the Libyan Ministry of Health made available to this observer its compilation entitled Current Statistics Of Civilian Victims Of Nato Bombardments On Libya, (3/19/11-6/27/11).
Before releasing their (...)

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“After You Brother!” Qadaffi Stays And Obama Leaves?

by Franklin P. Lamb

Tripoli (Libya) | 29 June 2011

The 6/27/11 International Criminal Courts (ICC) arrest warrants issued for Muammar Gadhafi, his son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, and Libya intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi, however pleasing to the “rebels” and NATO, probably won’t have much effect on negotiating a settlement between the two (...)

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From South Lebanon via Queens with Hate…. When Hanan met Peter

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 20 June 2011

Hanan is the Islamophobic Lebanese woman, Hanan Qahwaji who as a child lived in the South Lebanon village of Maryoun overlooking the Lebanon-Palestine border during three years of the on again off again Lebanese Civil War before she became an Israeli collaborator and fled to Israel. Hanan, (...)

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Israelis Rush for Second Passports

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 4 June 2011

Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to Palestine, where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population prepared to exercise their right to depart, while many more, with actual millennial (...)

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Is Arab Spring Spreading to US Congressional Staffs?

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 29 May 2011

By unanimously applauding the lies of the Prime Minister of an apartheid regime, the Congress of the United States coveyed to the world the image of a totalitarian and monolithic body. However, this impression masks a more complex reality, emphasizes former Congressional aide Franklin P. (...)

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Obama’s Middle East Speech and Nakba Day 2011

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 21 May 2011

Human march to Palestine; May 15, 2011
No sooner had President Obama turned from his teleprompter at the State Department on 5/19/11 than the AIPAC founded Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Robert Satloff, fumed that the President’s insistence that a solution to the Question (...)

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Has the Tide Turned in Favor of the Assad Government?

by Franklin P. Lamb

Damascus (Syria) | 14 May 2011

Dmascus, calm and busy.
As many of us observe the great Arab and Islamic awakening of 2011 in stunned amazement, as it rapidly spreads across the region, this observer agrees with those who declare,“ well it’s about time—Godspeed to the rebels and goodbye to the despots.”
Indeed, (...)

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Panic in the Houses of Congress and AIPAC?

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 1 May 2011

On April 13, 2011, more than a dozen Israel “First, last and always” US congressional leaders from both houses of Congress held an urgent conference call organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Their purpose was to discuss how best to promote Israel during next (...)

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Why the “Obama Doctrine” Won’t Help the Shia Majority in Bahrain

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 16 April 2011

Secretary Clinton Delivers Remarks at U.S.-Islamic World Forum
Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi passed through Beirut a couple of weeks ago and gave a terrific lecture at the American University of Beirut entitled “Preliminary Historical Observations on the Arab (...)

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Does America have a Muslim problem?

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 9 April 2011

“Pastor” Terry Jones
Whatever becomes of the truly pathetic “Pastor” Terry Jones and his plans to appear later this month at the largest Mosque in Michigan to condemn Islam and to generate some media attention while provoking all decent Americans and people of good will everywhere (...)

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They came, They Saw And Now It’s Time to Act

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 5 April 2011

Meeting with Lebanase President Michel Suleiman
The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), in partnership with the Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR) sponsored a delegation of British and EU MEPs to the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon several weeks ago and the 10 member (...)

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Time for Nasrallah and Obama to Talk?

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 29 March 2011

An experienced Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius , to his credit not among the most biased Israeli Hasbara spewers from the Zionist daily, dropped by our Hezbollah neighborhood known as Dahiyeh the other day. During an hour meeting with Hezbollah Foreign Relations Officer Ammar (...)

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Has The Lebanon Tribunal Drama Become Farce?

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 26 March 2011

Mohammad Raad
This observer had a wild day in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley yesterday. Then again, for one reason or another, it seems that every time I go to the Bekaa it turns into a wild day.
It was to be on a quick trip to the city of Zahle to attend a trial of a friend in the Mahkama (...)

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Congressman Peter King’s Great Muslim Scare

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 12 March 2011

"Kings, ‘Muslim Terrorism” hearings are the first and hopefully the last of its kind to focus on a single religious group. His false assumptions are being roundly rejected across America and Europe. Counterterrorism experts, veteran’s organizations, interfaith leaders, local leaders and (...)

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