Fact-Checking Marvin Kalb: Harvard's Twisted Report on Israel's Invasion of Lebanon

[Purveyor]

By FRANKLIN LAMB

Qana, Lebanon.

First it was (and is) that would be tenure-denying, torture-justifying, Israeli occupation apologist, opponent smearing, Alan Dershowitz. I could deal with Alan.

But now it's Marvin Kalb! A boyhood hero of mine!

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Currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard's, Joan Shorenstein Center, (no hard feelings that it's paid for by Walter Shorestein-AIPAC's favorite member and Californian fundraiser or that its DC office is very cozy with the nearby AIPAC office), Kalb recently published a 'study': The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict. He was joined by Carol Saivetz. So far so good. I'm all for 'academic studies.

The JTA news desk featured Kalb's work on May 3, 2007 and AIPAC is now busy flooding Congress with this "academic study" as they attempt to intimidate the fourth estate with shrieks of "See we told you so! You guys are anti-Israel and maybe closet anti-Semites! We have Harvard scholarship to back it up!"

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I won't nick pit Kalb's heavy duty sources for his tome: Fox News, Bill Kristol's, Weekly Standard, Anderson Cooper's " Hezbollah is still a Secretive Organization"( I hope they are or I'm in trouble!) The Jewish Press's Media Monitor, and as Kalb assures us "interviews with many Diplomats", none of whom he names. Forget about the DC Madams phone records, I am more curious about Kalb's secret 'Diplomats" and my concern is about what Harvard publishes as 'scholarship' these days.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb05052007.html

[papau]

1. Author of "Why is Hezbollah on the Terrorism List? (Franklin Lamb) in Counterpunch?

Alexander Cockburn's Israel hating CounterPunch web site hosts a dump on Israel by Franklin Lamb, author of "Why is Hezbollah on the Terrorism List? By FRANKLIN LAMB" http://moderate.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/why-is-hezbollah-on-the-terrorism-list/

Why am I not surprised.