When that tsunami comes, it will come crashing through the years of Israeli injustice and defiance, not in a maelstrom of destroyed houses and debris, no longer silenced by fearful trepidation, no longer willing to submit to accusations of anti-Semitism, but infused with the spirit of human sensitivity and respect for the dignity of all [...]

“Just maybe!” hints the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) FRANKLIN LAMB / Al Manar 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 a hour meeting with Hezbollah Foreign Relations [...]

His false assumptions are being roundly rejected across America and Europe. Counterterrorism experts, veteran’s organizations, interfaith leaders, local leaders and editorial boards, and most importantly the American public are rejecting King’s racist calumny. FRANKLIN LAMB /  Al Manar Half a century ago, during the late Senator Joseph McCarthy fueled “great red’ scare” that terrorized many [...]

In Re Barak, “Bullahs,” Blackwater, Bounties & the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) FRANKLIN LAMB /  Al Manar When the US marines were in and out of Lebanon in 1983-1984 some of those I met, when visiting their barracks with American journalist Janet Stevens, to discuss Israel’s use of American cluster bombs against civilians had [...]

Panicked Israeli leaders and their  agents in Congress are busy trying to convince the American public how vital and cheap the $3 billion per year cost of Camp David is for America’s security while they know the truth is precisely the opposite. By Franklin Lamb / AL MANAR The Tahrir Square “Hurriya!”  tremors spreading across [...]

Divergent Views From Lebanon, But One Common Goal By Franklin Lamb /  Lebanese opponents of civil rights for Palestinian Refugees often use less objective and more crude wording to define “tawtin” (“settlement”) than is normally employed in civil society discussions. During last summer’s debate in parliament, which failed to enact laws that would allow the [...]

Both Washington and Tel Aviv are were reported shocked by the speed of  the Egyptian revolt and their intelligences agencies admit not seeing it coming. Much of the American reaction is being scripted by AIPAC and other Israel lobby agents… By Frankling Lamb /  Al Manar IT is difficult to overstate the potential for Egyptian [...]

The Writing on the Wall — Veterans Today Update: Al Jazeera reports Mubarak’s planning exile to Tel Aviv. According to sources in the Egyptian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel is making preparations to welcome Hosni Mubarak into exile after Saudi Arabia rejected overtures.  Al Jazeera also reports Israeli diplomats have fled Egypt amid the unrest. CNN [...]