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Znet Article Fisk: As The 6am Ceasefire Takes Effect... The Real War Begins

Znet Article, August, 16 2006 Robert Fisk
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The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe - and Israel may believe - that the UN ceasefire due to come into effect at 6am today will mark the beginning of the end of the latest dirty war in Lebanon after up to 1,000 Lebanese civi...

Znet Article Fisk: Desert Of Trapped Corpses Testifies To Israel's Failure

Znet Article, August, 16 2006 Robert Fisk
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They made a desert and called it peace. Srifa - or what was once the village of Srifa - is a place of pancaked homes, blasted walls, rubble, starving cats and trapped corpses. But it is also a place of victory for the Hizbollah, whose fighters wal...

Znet Article Fisk: Crocodile Tears Of Leaders As City Burns

Znet Article, August, 10 2006 Robert Fisk
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Shortly after 4am, the fly-like buzz of an Israeli drone came out of the sky over my home. Coded MK by the manufacturers, Lebanese mothers have sought to lessen their children's fears of this ominous creature by transliterating it as "Um Kamel", t...

Znet Article Fisk: How Can We Stand By And Allow This To Go On?'

Znet Article, August, 01 2006 Robert Fisk
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They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. "Mehdi Hashem, aged seven - Qana," was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy's body lay. "Hussein al-Mohamed, aged 12 - Qana',' "Abbas al-Shalhoub, aged one - Qan...

Znet Article Fisk: On a Red Cross mission of mercy when Israeli air force came calling

Znet Article, July, 28 2006 Robert Fisk
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07/28/06 "The Independent" -- -- It was supposed to be a routine trip across the Lebanese killing fields for the brave men and women of the International Red Cross. Sylvie Thoral was the "team leader" of our two vehicles, a 38-year-old Frenchwoman...

Znet Article Fisk: Is Israel Losing Its War In Lebanon?

Znet Article, July, 27 2006 Robert Fisk
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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 th...

Znet Article Fisk: This is not Dunkirk. This is Munich

Znet Article, July, 25 2006 Robert Fisk
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How brave our warships looked at dawn. Spread over the pale blue Mediterranean, bristling with cannons and machine guns and missiles, it was an armada led by the destroyer HMS Gloucester and the USS Nashville and York and the sleek French anti-sub...

Znet Article Fisk: The Inescapable Beat

Znet Article, May, 14 2006 Robert Fisk
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Strange things happen when a reporter strays off his beat. Vast regions of the earth turn out to have different priorities. The latest conspiracy theory for the murder of ex-Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri--that criminals involved in a bankru...

Znet Article Fisk: The United States of Israel:

Znet Article, April, 28 2006 Robert Fisk
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Stephen Walt towers over me as we walk in the Harvard sunshine past Eliot Street, a big man who needs to be big right now (he's one of two authors of an academic paper on the influence of America's Jewish lobby) but whose fame, or notoriety, depen...

Znet Article Fisk: The Farcical End Of The American Dream

Znet Article, March, 19 2006 Robert Fisk
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It is a bright winter morning and I am sipping my first coffee of the day in Los Angeles. My eye moves like a radar beam over the front page of the Los Angeles Times for the word that dominates the minds of all Middle East correspondents: Iraq. In...

Znet Article Fisk: Defeat Is Victory. Death Is Life

Znet Article, February, 27 2006 Robert Fisk
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02/26/06 "The Independent" -- Everyone in the Middle East rewrites history, but never before have we had a US administration so wilfully, dishonestly and ruthlessly reinterpreting tragedy as success, defeat as victory, death as life - helped, I ha...

Znet Article Fisk: Those Danish Cartoons

Znet Article, February, 09 2006 Robert Fisk
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So now it's cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed with a bomb-shaped turban. Ambassadors are withdrawn from Denmark, Gulf nations clear their shelves of Danish produce, Gaza gunmen threaten the European Union. In Denmark, Fleming Rose, the "culture" edi...

Znet Article Fisk: The problem with democracy

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Robert Fisk
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Saturday 28 January 2006 And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power. Oh no, not more democracy again! Didn't we award this to those Algerians on 1990? And didn't they reward us with that nice gift of an Is...

Znet Article Fisk: Deja Vu

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Robert Fisk
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If ariel Sharon had not been in a deep coma, he would have jumped out of his bed for joy. The Hamas victory fulfils his most ardent hopes. For a whole year now, he did everything possible to undermine Mahmoud Abbas. His logic was quite obvious: ...

Znet Article Fisk: Telling It Like It Isn't

Znet Article, December, 31 2005 Robert Fisk
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I first realized the enormous pressures on American journalists in the Middle East when I went some years ago to say goodbye to a colleague from the Boston Globe. I expressed my sorrow that he was leaving a region where he had obviously enjoyed re...

Znet Article Fisk: The Great War for Civilization

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk is one of the world's best known journalists. He has been based in the Middle East as the UK Independent's Middle East correspondent for nearly 30 years, during which he has reported on two U.S. wars in Iraq, two Afghan wars, the Israe...

Znet Article Fisk: War for Civilization

Znet Article, November, 21 2005 Robert Fisk
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YE: How is it going with the process of releasing your new book (Great War for Civilization)? RF: Well, it should be a time when you sit back and enjoy the glow, but actually it’s too hard to do that. I’m still exhausted from writ...

Znet Article Fisk: The Betrayed Mothers Of America

Znet Article, November, 19 2005 Robert Fisk
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I sit in one of the dives on 44th Street, uncertain how to approach Sue Niederer and Celeste Zappala, afraid that their stories can be too easily turned into tears, their message lost after the Veterans’ Day march. They were put at the bac...

Znet Article Fisk: All over the globe, our leaders seem to be suffering from a severe bout of infantilism

Znet Article, October, 30 2005 Robert Fisk
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I wonder sometimes if we have not entered a new age of what the French call infantilisme. I admit I am writing these words on the lecture circuit in Paris where pretty much every political statement -- including those of Messrs Chirac, Sarkozy, de...

Znet Article Fisk: How The World Was Duped:

Znet Article, October, 04 2005 Robert Fisk
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The 5th of February 2003 was a snow-blasted day in New York, the steam whirling out of the road covers, the US secret servicemen - helpfully wearing jackets with "Secret Service" printed on them - hugging themselves outside the fustian, asbestos-p...

Znet Article Fisk: Religious Terror

Znet Article, September, 18 2005 Robert Fisk
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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, princi...

Znet Article Fisk: How Easily We Have Come To Take The Bombs And The Deaths In Iraq For Granted

Znet Article, August, 28 2005 Robert Fisk
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Taking things for granted. Or, as a very dear friend of mine used to say to me, "There you go." I am sitting in Baghdad airport, waiting for my little Flying Carpet Airlines 20-seater prop aircraft to take me home to Beirut but the local Iraqi sta...

Znet Article Fisk: Theme Park Death

Znet Article, August, 21 2005 Robert Fisk
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On Monday, George Bush was praising the greedy sectarian politicians here - who had totally failed to meet the new Iraqi constitution deadline - for their "heroic" efforts for "democracy". At about the same time, I came across a friend at one of B...

Znet Article Fisk: What Does Democracy Really Mean In The Middle East? Whatever The West Decides

Znet Article, August, 20 2005 Robert Fisk
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It makes you want to scream. I have been driving the dingy, dangerous, oven-like streets of Baghdad all week, ever more infested with insurgents and their informers, the American troops driving terrified over the traffic islands, turning their gun...

Znet Article Fisk: Secrets Of The Morgue

Znet Article, August, 19 2005 Robert Fisk
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The Baghdad morgue is a fearful place of heat and stench and mourning, the cries of relatives echoing down the narrow, foetid laneway behind the pale-yellow brick medical centre where the authorities keep their computerised records. So many corpse...

Znet Article Fisk: A Constitution That Means Nothing To Ordinary Iraqis

Znet Article, August, 15 2005 Robert Fisk
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Behind ramparts of concrete and barbed wire, the framers of Iraq’s new constitution wrestled yesterday to prevent - or bring about - the federalisation of Iraq while their compatriots in the hot and fetid streets outside showed no interest...

Znet Article Fisk: US Win?

Znet Article, August, 14 2005 Robert Fisk
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There’s the wreckage of a car bomb that killed seven Americans on the corner of a neighbouring street. Close by stands the shuttered shop of a phone supplier who put pictures of Saddam on a donkey on his mobiles. He was shot three days ago...

Znet Article Fisk: Ten Minutes

Znet Article, August, 13 2005 Robert Fisk
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It was the same lunatic corkscrew landing in the same little Lebanese plane, barrelling down into the sandstorm of Baghdad airport. Piloting his 20-passenger twin-prop aircraft - from Flying Carpet Airlines, no less - Captain Hussam has three thin...

Znet Article Fisk: Blair's Alliance With Bush Bombed

Znet Article, July, 08 2005 Robert Fisk
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"If you bomb our cities," Osama bin Laden said in a recent videotape, "we will bomb yours."' It was clear Britain would be a target ever since British Prime Minister Tony Blair decided to join President Bush's "war on terror" and his invasion of I...

Znet Article Fisk: Kingdom of Heaven

Znet Article, June, 20 2005 Robert Fisk
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Long live Ridley Scott. I never thought I'd say this. Gladiator had a screenplay that might have come from the Boy's Own Paper. Black Hawk Down showed the Arabs of Somalia as generically violent animals. But when I left the cinema after seeing Sco...

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