The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)

Whose Mission is it fulfilling?
Franklin Lamb
UN Headquarters
Naquora, Lebanon
peoplesgeography.com
Ever since one of this student’s favorite Professors, Dr. Ruth Widmeyer, an accomplished and rare beauty still, who was the first woman to receive a PhD in Soviet Studies from Harvard nearly a half century ago, announced to our Political Science class at Portland State University that [...]

Franklin Lamb: Driving Miss Condi

It was one of those bleak, wet and cold London mornings back on January 18, 1990 when this observer exited the Marks and Spencer’s store on Oxford Street, having purchased a Scottish Shetland wool cardigan for protection against the damp chill. As he walked to the Underground he noticed that some of the London street [...]

Franklin Lamb: Does “Loving Lebanon” Mean the Bush Administration Never Has To Say It’s Sorry?

October 27th, 2007 — peoplesgeography.com

Franklin Lamb reflects upon the recent term of Bush administration-appointed (to Lebanon) and former Israel-posted US Ambassador to Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman.
Before his appointment as US Ambassador to Lebanon in July 2004 and commencement in August of that year, Mr. Feltman served at the Coalition Provisional Authority office in Irbil, [...]

The 25th Anniversary of the Massacre at Sabra-Shatilla

Will anyone remember? Does anyone really care anymore?
Franklin Lamb
Martyrs Square
Sabra-Shatilla Palestinian Refugee Camp
Beirut
A Letter to Janet
Dearest Janet,
It’s a very beautiful fall day here in Beirut today. Twenty-five years ago this week since the September 15-18, 1982 Massacre at the Palestinian refugee camps at Sabra-Shatilla. Bright blue sky and a fall breeze. It actually rained [...]

Did the UN Cave to Israel? Lebanon’s Shebaa Farms

By FRANKLIN LAMB
Across the Blue Line from Shebaa Farms, Lebanon.
On July 18, 2001, nearly six years ago to the day, and under intense US pressure, the UN Security Council affixed its imprimatur to the proposition that Israel, [...]

Franklin Lamb: Inside Nahr el-Bared

“Another Waco in the Making”
Inside Nahr el-Bared
By FRANKLIN LAMB
Bedawi and Nahr el-Bared Palestinian Refugee Camps, Lebanon.
With very intermittent internet access and this ancient pc with one lone wire running from the spaghetti wiring system tied to the ceiling and taped to a single bare light bulb socket, plus 8 toddlers, two babies, crawling over and [...]

Franklin Lamb: Whos Behind the Fighting in North Lebanon

Great article I advise everyone to read.
Wearing a beat-up ratty UNCHR tee-shirt left over from Bint Jbeil and the Israeli-Hezbollah July probably helped. As did, I suspect, the Red Cross jersey, my black and white checkered kaffieyh and the Palestinian flag taped to my lapel as I joined a group of Palestinian aid workers and [...]