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About Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk is a multiple award-winning journalist on the Middle East, based in Beirut. Fisk is the author of many books on the region, including The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East.

Author Archive | Robert Fisk

Palestine, War Crimes

At least Mr Palestine is in good company

Did the KGB – who killed off one of their own ex-agents in just such a way – supply the stuff to Palestinians who hated Yasser Arafat, or to Israelis? Would the Israelis, who of course deny any involvement, try to liquidate the man with poison in order to avoid killing him publicly?

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Israel, One State, Palestine

Robert Fisk: One of Israel’s great leftist warriors wants peace with Hamas and Gaza – but does the Knesset?

PLO and Hamas want peace, but Israel want a Jewish state from the Mediterranean to the Jordan river, then what they are doing makes sense up to a point.

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Iran, Israel, War

Benjamin Netanyahu warning reveals his moments of memory loss

Netanyahu had noted “rightly, that Israel’s intelligence agencies are superb”. They are not. Israel’s intelligence on Lebanon has been pitiful for two decades, and it was these same “agencies” who assured Powell back in 2003 that Iraq did indeed have weapons of mass destruction. Later, we somehow forgot that little bit of false Israeli “intelligence” input.

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Arabs, Islam, Libya, Religion

The Provocateurs Know Politics And Religion Don’t Mix

Has Al-Qaeda – defeated by the Arab revolutionaries who demanded dignity rather than a Bin Laden Caliphate across the Middle East – now decided to cash in on populist grievances to advance their Islamist cause?

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Arabs, Democracy, Human Rights, Libya, Middle East

Tripoli – A City in the Shadow of Death

Gunfire in the suburbs – and hunger and rumour in the capital as thousands race for last tickets out of a city sinking into anarchy.

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Asides, Gaza, Israel, Palestine

Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask

So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another. Not bad for a night’s work in Gaza by the army that believes in “purity of arms”. But why should we be surprised? Have we forgotten the 17,500 dead [...]

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911

Robert Fisk: Even I question the truth about 9/11

Robert Fisk – Published: 25 August 2007 [...] But – here we go. I am increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9/11. It’s not just the obvious non sequiturs: where are the aircraft parts (engines, etc) from the attack on the Pentagon? Why have the officials involved in the United 93 [...]

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Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Opinion, War

Smoke signals from the battle of Bint Jbeil send a warning to Israel

06/27/06 “The Independent” — – Qlaya, Southern Lebanon — Is it possible – is it conceivable – that Israel is losing its war in Lebanon? From this hill village in the south of the country, I am watching the clouds of brown and black smoke rising from its latest disaster in the Lebanese town of [...]

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Islam, Politics, Religion

Robert Fisk: We have long ago lost our moral compass, so how can we lecture the Islamic world?

Originally published in The Independent In an age when Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara can identify �evil ideologies� and al-Qa�ida can call the suicide bombing of 156 Iraqi Shias �good news� for the �nation of Islam�, thank heaven for our readers, in particular John Shepherd, principal lecturer in religious studies at St Martin�s College, Lancaster. [...]

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