http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/driving-miss-condi/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:51:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/driving-miss-condi/#comment-9615 gerald spezio Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:31:38 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/driving-miss-condi/#comment-9615 Franklin Lamb makes me feel like a cringing coward with all my petty comfort. Franklin Lamb makes me feel like a cringing coward with all my petty comfort.

]]> http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/driving-miss-condi/#comment-9601 ron david Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:15:03 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/driving-miss-condi/#comment-9601 Most of us know Franklin Lamb as America's bravest, most accurate reporter of Israel's illegal, inhumane use of American weapons in Lebanon. I have used Lamb's 900 page "ISRAEL'S WAR IN LEBANON: Eyewitness Accounts of the Invasion and Occupation" as the definitive source of information on the subject for over 20 years. I now use Franklin Lamb's "sequel" to Israel's atrocities against Lebanese civilians, "THE PRICE WE PAY: A Quarter Century of Israel's use of American Weapons Against Civilians in Lebanon," as the definitive source of information regarding Israel's 2006 brutalization of Lebanon -- and as context for Israel's previous wars against Lebanon. That documentary evidence, collected at great physical and political risk, is a great contribution to the factual record of exactly what the American people are "buying" with the billions of dollars we give to Israel. But when a no-nonsense hard-nosed researcher like Lamb manages to combine elements as disparate as Marion Barry's brilliantly slippery use of his arrest as an asset in winning an election, with Condolezza Rice's un-brilliant impersonation of a fair minded peace maker, with the real number of Israel's wars against Lebanon -- including Israel's US-based propaganda war that invents slums in Lebanon and ignores the slum-ridden reality of major American cities-- you can only shake your head in astonishment. Franklin Lamb sees the world Whole. He sees the connections that most of us miss. If they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to people who truly deserved it, Lamb would be on the short list of nominees. Ron David Most of us know Franklin Lamb as America’s bravest, most accurate reporter of Israel’s illegal, inhumane use of American weapons in Lebanon. I have used Lamb’s 900 page “ISRAEL’S WAR IN LEBANON: Eyewitness Accounts of the Invasion and Occupation” as the definitive source of information on the subject for over 20 years.
I now use Franklin Lamb’s “sequel” to Israel’s atrocities against Lebanese civilians, “THE PRICE WE PAY: A Quarter Century of Israel’s use of American Weapons Against Civilians in Lebanon,” as the definitive source of information regarding Israel’s 2006 brutalization of Lebanon — and as context for Israel’s previous wars against Lebanon.
That documentary evidence, collected at great physical and political risk, is a great contribution to the factual record of exactly what the American people are “buying” with the billions of dollars we give to Israel.
But when a no-nonsense hard-nosed researcher like Lamb manages to combine elements as disparate as Marion Barry’s brilliantly slippery use of his arrest as an asset in winning an election, with Condolezza Rice’s un-brilliant impersonation of a fair minded peace maker, with the real number of Israel’s wars against Lebanon — including Israel’s US-based propaganda war that invents slums in Lebanon and ignores the slum-ridden reality of major American cities– you can only shake your head in astonishment.
Franklin Lamb sees the world Whole. He sees the connections that most of us miss. If they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to people who truly deserved it, Lamb would be on the short list of nominees.
Ron David

]]> http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/driving-miss-condi/#comment-9579 Lloyd Rowsey Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:34:52 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/driving-miss-condi/#comment-9579 Thank you, Mr. Lamb. Thank you, Mr. Lamb.

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