By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change or resistance. Small acts, when multiplied by many people, can transform the world"
"If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved [...]
Why doesn't the US Embassy in Beirut 'get it'?
By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
It is being reported in Beirut this morning that at exactly 3 a.m. Beirut time, a supporter of the National Lebanese Resistance led by Hezbollah, on duty above the Mediterranean coastal town of Saadyat, between Damour and Saida was watching [...]
By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
John McCain dropped in on Beirut last weekend en route to Israel to join fellow US Senator Joe Lieberman in agreeing with their hosts that, a just as he told them during the 2008 Presidential campaign, Barack Obama was real bad for Israel. McCain, fundraising for his 2010 [...]
By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Part II: Israel and H.R. 2278 vs. Lebanon's Al Manar TV et al. (Part I here!)
"Al Manar is being singled out by the US Israel lobby precisely because it excels as a responsible TV channel that demands and applies the highest industry standards and because Israeli and Western [...]
The hip-hop beats ringing through the muddy, unlit streets of the burnt-out Palestinian refugee camp Nahr al-Bared seem incongruous. But the rhymes are camp-grown – and courageous.
"I'm carrying worries / From inside a destroyed camp / I'm preparing an attack / Words that keep turning in my head / Nahr al-Bared is fenced-in with iron [...]
By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Part I: Targeting Lebanon's Al Manar
"Regarding Al Manar it's personal for Israel. The reason is that Al Manar did to the Israeli government propaganda machine during and following the July 2006 war what Hezbollah fighters did to Israeli troops. Al Manar kicked butt. That station must be [...]
By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Surely we should all have known better. It was just too good to last. It seemed to some Americans in Lebanon that nearly all the Lebanese and their political leaders were ready to try to more or less work together for the good of the country. [...]
Checking that list and checking it twice!
By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"There is no obstacle to cooperation with any official in the new Lebanese unity government with the exception of Hezbollah," Nicole Shampaine, the Director of the US Department of State's Near East Affairs Bureau Office for Egypt and the Levant 12/3/09.
Lebanon's [...]
Updating Resistance projects
By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Dahiyeh, South Beirut – Like many liberation and resistant movement 'Manifestos' 'Charters' or 'Declarations' issued to the public early in its founding – the African National Congress, Palestine Liberation Organization , Hamas, Algerian FLN, and various "Sons of Liberty" groups during the American Revolution, [...]
Lebanon 'Accepts' Hezbollah's Weapons
By Franklin Lamb | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"It is the right of the Lebanese people, Army and the (Hezbollah led-ed.) Resistance to liberate the Shebaa Farms, the Kfar Shuba Hills and the northern part of the village of Ghajar as well as to defend Lebanon and its territorial waters in the face [...]
By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Terrorist Israelis had done it again. One more time they had conceitedly acted as the only God's chosen people, who have the right to violate international laws set by all other nations; the Goyims, who according to Israel's Talmudic teachings, are only animals, sub-humans at the [...]
By Haitham Sabbah
This might sound off-topic, but it is not and you will know why by reading until the end. Yet, it is so salient to every single one of us who are members of a global society.
As mentioned here, the US Department of Labor released their long-awaited report (PDF) on goods produced by [...]
Two years after the outbreak of the war in Nahr Al-Bared, the camp's fate remains unclear. the reconstruction of the official camp might start soon, but the army keeps its tight grip on the camp. Several checkpoints, barbed wire and military posts cut Nahr Al-Bared off from its surroundings.
Nahr Al-Bared camp used to be a [...]
The three-month-long war between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon ended on 2 September 2007. While the Lebanese army has allowed displaced residents to return to some parts of the camp, the fate of other parts of the camp still under the army's [...]
Tagged Army, Camp, Lebanon, Nahr al-Bared, Palestine, palestinian, Refugee, Refugees, WarIn may 2007, the battle between Fatah Al-Islam and the Lebanese army broke out in Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Amidst heavy fighting, the Lebanese army had systematically destroyed the entire camp by september 2007. Two years later, nearly all the rubble has been cleared from the "old camp", the core of Nahr [...]
Tagged Camp, Fatah Al-Islam, Fateh al-Islam, lebanese, Lebanon, Palestine, palestinian, Refugee, Refugees, War
