Franklin Lamb Hezbollah Spokesman

Franklin Lamb Hezbollah  Spokesman ---

Summary  Short: Lamb is an American advocate for the Islamist organization Hezbollah published largely by Arab and Muslim-oriented or supportive  media abroad and on anti-Israel conspiracy oriented media on US websites.  "There is considerable doubt among international lawyers whether Hezbollah should ever have been classified as a terrorist organization"

His profile on mwc:Dr. Franklin Lamb is Director of the Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace, Beirut-Washington DC, Board Member of The Sabra Shatila Foundation, and a volunteer with the Palestine Civil Rights Campaign, Lebanon. He is the author of “The Price We Pay: A Quarter-Century of Israel’s Use of American Weapons Against Civilians in Lebanon” and is doing research in Lebanon for his next book.

Lamb has been a Professor of International Law at Northwestern College of Law in Oregon. He earned his Law Degree at Boston University and his LLM, M.Phil, and PhD degrees at the London School of Economics.

As a Middle East expert and commentator, Dr. Lamb has appeared on Press TV, Al-Manar and several other media outlets. His articles and analyses have been published by Counter Punch, Veterans Today, Intifada Palestine, Electronic Intifada, Opinion Maker, Dissident Voice, Daily Star and Al Ahram. 

What he's really about: Lamb appears to be an American advocate for Hezbollah. He is published mostly by Arab and Muslim-oriented or supportive media. His writings are uniformly largely supportive of Palestinian / Arab / Muslim resistance against the United State and Israel, including support for Hezbollah and Hamas which are considered to be terrorist organizations by the United States and Israel. He has been called a Hezbollah propogandist and apologist by  pro-Israel bloggers.

Contents

• Media
• Articles by Date:

References

• Wikipedia (deleted)

Media

• Al Ahram: Muslim-oriented largest Egyptian daily newspaper
• Al-Manar:Lebanese satellite television station affiliated with Hezbollah
• Counter Punch: "its contributions are critical of Israeli government actions. This includes contributions from such controversial anti-Zionist figures asGilad Atzmon, Norman Finkelstein and Israel Shamir"
• Daily Star Beirut Arab-oriented newspaper in Lebanon whose government  is controlled by Hezbollah
• Dissident Voice "radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and justice."
• Electronic Intifada ""an explicitly pro-Palestinian political and ideological Web site" that hosts "anti-Israel propaganda." (wikipedia)
• Global Research promotes viewpoints critical of United States foreign policy, particularly regarding Israel and Iran, as well as alternative theories concerning the 9/11 attacks,
• Intifada Palestine Palestinean nationalist website: "dissect, highlight and broadcast all stories of Palestinian global resistance movements, and struggles for freedom and justice in the Occupied Palestine territories and also those complicit in the crimes against the Palestinian people,"
• Opinion Maker website with largely Arab, Muslim and other sympathetic contributors 
• Palestine Chronicle 
• Press TV: The Guardian described Press TV as a controversial 24-hour news channel funded by the Iranian government.. Its reports reflect the official position of the Iranian government which backs Hezbollah
• Russia Today An article published in The New Republic by James Kirchick characterized the news reportage of Russia Today as, "virulent anti-Americanism"
• Veterans Today: "anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theory Web site" (ADL)
• UprootedPalestinians blog

Wikipedia: (2011)

Franklin Lamb

Franklin Lamb is a pro-Arab political activist published by media outlets such as Veterans Today, Al-Manar, and Globalresearch.ca on topics including peace in the Middle East. In a 2008 article "Why Hezbollah's Victory may lead to peace in the Middle East", Lamb stated "Hezbollah under the leadership of Hasan Nasrallah has given the Arabs of the region restored self-respect following 60 years of humiliation and 41 years of repeated and voracious occupation and aggression."[1]. In CounterPunch, he points out "There is considerable doubt among international lawyers whether Hezbollah should ever have been classified as a terrorist organization"[2]

He is the author of the book The Price We Pay: A Quarter-Century of Israel's Use of American Weapons Against Civilians in Lebanon[3]. He predicts that the Israel will dissolve.[4].

Among his accomplishments:

• Director of Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace, Beirut-Washington DC
• Board Member of The Sabra Shatila Foundation
• Volunteer with the Palestine Civil Rights Campaign, Lebanon.

Broadcast contributions

• Press TV
• Russia Today

News contributor

• Pacific Free Press
• Veterans Today
• Ramallah Online

[edit]Notes

1. ^ Why Hezbollah's Victory may lead to peace in the Middle East
2. ^ Why is Hezbollah on the Terrorism List?
3. ^ Veterans Today Franklin Lamb
4. ^ Israel will not collapse peacefully but it will dissolve: Dr. Franklin Lamb, Aid Netherlands, April 23, 2011

[edit]External links

• Palestine Civil Rights Campaign

Articles by Date:

::March 3, 2011

http://mah29001.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/evil-empire-round-up-hezbollah-apologist-franklin-lamb-defending-gaddafi-edition/

Evil Empire Round Up: Hezbollah Apologist Franklin Lamb Defending Gaddafi Edition

Posted by mah29001 

::april 27, 2011

Franklin Lamb accused of being an apologist of Syria

http://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2011/04/political-alawism-and-gutter-country-of.html

ApRIL 27, 2011 

To all the apologists of Syria and the Syrian regime, ROBERT FISK, PATRICK SEALE, FRANKLIN LAMB, and such ....

::november 20, 2010

http://mah29001.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/franklin-lamb-hezbollah-propagandist/

Franklin Lamb = Hezbollah Propagandist

Posted by mah29001 on November 20, 2010

::July 30, 2010
Campus Watch Corrects Accusations by Leftists and Apologists for Radical Islam
by Richard Shulman 
http://www.examiner.com/x-7095-NY-Israel-Conflict-Examiner~y2010m7d30-Campus-Watch-corrects-accusations-by-leftists-and-apologists-for-Radical-Islam
In the Palestine Chronicle, Franklin Lamb calls the Zionist Freedom Alliance "a spin-off of Campus Watch."

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http://mah29001.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/evil-empire-round-up-hezbollah-apologist-franklin-lamb-defending-gaddafi-edition/

Evil Empire Round Up: Hezbollah Apologist Franklin Lamb Defending Gaddafi Edition

Posted by mah29001 on March 3, 2011

I am pretty sure Franklin Lamb will probably get aquianted with the likes of the Libyan verison of Yusuf al-Qaradawi should that particular Libyan replace Gaddafi in the long run and defend the likes of him and his horrible regime that’ll be much worse than Gaddafi’s.  Why is it that Palestinian apologists just do not seem to mind anti-American dictators…but lecture that the ones who happen to be pro-US be removed instead?  It’s as if almost they’re having it both ways.

Here’s more on the Evil Empire Round Up:

• It seems America’s “allies” in Kosovo are letting their people be radicalized into Jihadism with one of them recently targeting U.S. soldiers in Germany.
• Why isn’t the Russian government not caring about Saudi Arabia or Iran who are fueling most of the revolts going on in the Middle East?  But don’t tell Russia and its Russia Today propaganda network that a Saudi cleric is the recent Islamic radical to come out to demand Gaddafi goes down in flames.
• Isn’t the Workers’ World Party quite two-faced?  They didn’t mind supporting the “democracy rallies” that were going on in Egypt…but not if they are in Libya….and why are they ignoring that the Iranians and the Saudis are acting more like the French monarchy during the American Revolution?
• Looks like Comrade Danny Glover, a well known proponent for Communism around the world, is supporting the unions in Wisconsin and in other states.
• It seems that Birther proponent James David Manning is still attacking the Tea Party Movement and Glenn Beck for refusing to endorse his Birther conspiracy about Obama…but can someone please tell some ObamaBots that the Tea Party Movement doesn’t endorse this crap?  Aside from that…why isn’t Manning not attacking Russia Today or Alex Jones for being anti-American as much as he’s attacking Obama for being anti-American?
• Seems like anti-Semite and Jew-hater SonsOfLiberty1765USA is doing his best to hijack any YouTube threads, along with using his YouTube channel to push anti-Semitic Jew-hate…besides that he is also a supporter of Hezbollah just like Franklin Lamb, and also endorses other Palestinian terror groups…but he promises he’s a Christian folks…
• Why is it that Leftists look upon socially Conservative Christians with suspicion if they say they are promoting interfaith…but don’t care for the same when Islamic radicals promote an obvious lie?

And ending this Evil Empire Round Up, in a twist of good fate, an African-American news reporter had saved the ironic life of a white supremacist…a Jew would likely have done the same in also saving the life of the same man….but hey…when some of them are so hooked on hate it’s hard for them to overcome it.

http://mah29001.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/franklin-lamb-hezbollah-propagandist/

Franklin Lamb = Hezbollah Propagandist

Posted by mah29001 on November 20, 2010

Isn’t this quite the obvious that VeteransToday.com obviously just doesn’t seem to mind to stick up for a well known terrorist group like Hezbollah?  VeteransToday.com apparently doesn’t seem to mind being a proponent for Islamic terror groups like Hezbollah or have their people promote articles and people like Franklin Lamb who support the terrorists

Franklin Lamb is a psuedo-journalist who associates himself with psueod-patriots like those of VeteransToday.com to shill for Islamic terrorists like Hezbollah.  How can these hypocrites get away with talking about allege Israeli spies…but don’t mind defending Islamic terrorists?  And one must wonder if Palestinian terror groups in general are supporting these anti-Semitic websites like VeteransToday.com.  Would make sense…cuss it seems that no mainstream disability rights group has even bothered to support VeteransToday.com which its chief senior editor Gordon Duff claims to be a disabled veteran.

::May 16, 2008

http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/who-is-franklin-lamb/

who is franklin lamb?

You’d think that if he was an accredited American academic in Beirut there would be some web CV, but there isn’t. All I can find is this. I’ve emailed Counterpunch to ask for some background and some assessment of his stuff in terms of its actual corroborability, among other things. This is obviously nothing to do with this thread, but it is interesting in that Glenn has devoted a great deal of his own time (and credibility) to scrutinising the mechanism whereby Pentagon propaganda gets pumped via ostensibly neutral journalism into the public domain, and by doing so he has incurred charges of pandering to kumbaya singing lefties, so rather than engage in ad hominems, it seems appropriate to ask whether the lefties also have their own phony journalists pumping out propaganda. I find the psychology of it fascinating anyway, in that when the propaganda is designed to support positions I actually sympathise with (and I can’t say that about the Pentagon stuff) I get a chance to observe my own psychology doing something dodgy.

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