Archive for 'Mid East'
US Envoys: Losing Lebanon-Visit by Visit?
Posted on15. May, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
By Franklin Lamb Beirut It might require a semanticist with Noam Chomsky’s erudition to explain to some of us more obtuse the meanings, context, and policy nuances of two similar and repeated phases heard in Lebanon earlier this month by two well listened to guests . During over-lapping visits of top US and Iranian officials [...]
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The Betraying Arab Leaders
Posted on11. May, 2012 by Dr Mahboob A Khawaja.
How the Oil Exporting Arab Leaders Betrayed the People and Lost the Future? By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD “It is highly probable that but for the Arabs modern European civilization would never have arisen at all; it is absolutely certain that but for them, it would not have assumed that character which has enabled it [...]
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Egypt-Israel Relations
Posted on30. Apr, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
Egypt just annulled Mubarak’s natural gas giveaway. Will Sadat’s Camp David and the Zionist Embassy be next? By Franklin Lamb Beirut The Egyptian people are demanding the return of their sovereignty. According to recent opinion surveys they believe it was partially ceded to Israel by the two post-Nasser dictators, Anwar Sadat and [...]
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Lebanon: Are They Forming an Alliance
Posted on10. Apr, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
Lebanon’s Oppressed: Domestic workers, Women, Palestinians By FRANKLIN LAMB Beirut University students surveyed last month in Lebanon on the subject of how to improve their society and move it in the direction of meeting international human and civil rights norms identified three groups most in urgent need of immediate Lebanese governmental action. Not surprising perhaps, [...]
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Locked Horns in a MAD WAR
Posted on03. Apr, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
Iran/Israel locked in Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) deterrence status …and it’s potentially beneficial for peace in the region By Franklin Lamb Beirut Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), the doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the potential annihilation of both the attacker [...]
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Destroy Hezbollah: Feltman the New Frontman
Posted on24. Mar, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
Feltman launches Lebanon’s 2013 Parliamentary campaign pledging he will defeat Hezbollah this time Graphics by alex By Franklin Lamb One fellow who works at the Beirut US Embassy tells the story of how, each year around the time of the vernal equinox, since 2005 when Jeffrey Feltman became the American Ambassador (given Jeff’s domination of [...]
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The True Story Behind Egypt NGO Deal
Posted on08. Mar, 2012 by Dr Ashraf Ezzat.
“Surprise, surprise – operating without a license, the foreign NGOs worked on CIA plans for Egypt’s partition.” “The ultimate goal of the raids on Egypt’s NGOs and the blocking of its operations and workers on the ground is to set the stage for rigging the looming presidential elections.” Dr. Ashraf Ezzat An official at Cairo [...]
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What Iran Can Do for Lebanon’s Palestinians
Posted on18. Feb, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
by FRANKLIN LAMB Beirut. “My friends and I like Iran. Maybe they will ask their friends in Lebanon to help baba (daddy) to be allowed to work and our family allowed to own a home outside the camps.” Hanadi, a precocious youngster at Shatila Camp’s Shabiba center on learning last week from her teacher that [...]
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The Road To Tehran
Posted on18. Feb, 2012 by Editor.
It Goes Through Damascus By Nile Bowie Between the chaos and artillery fire unfolding in Homs and Damascus, the current siege against the Ba’athist State of Bashar al-Assad parallels events of nearly a century ago. In efforts to maintain its protectorate, the French government employed the use of foreign soldiers to smother those seeking to [...]
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Lebanon: Honoring Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah
Posted on17. Feb, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
by FRANKLIN LAMB Dahiyeh, South Beirut Rushing to an appointment last Saturday I passed the Mohammad Hussein Fadallah Hassaniyeh (Mosque), which for many in my immediate Dahiyeh neighborhood is the religious institution we feel most connected to because of its long and continuing history of social and religious work in our community. Nearly 18 months [...]
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