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Znet Article Fisk: Return to Afghanistan

Znet Article, August, 10 2002 Robert Fisk
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Gul Afgha knows how to handle the United Nations. He smiles, he praises, he loves the UN, and he is immensely grateful for the advice of Under Secretary General and Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, t...

Znet Article Fisk: One Year On In Afghanistan

Znet Article, August, 05 2002 Robert Fisk
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President George Bush's "war on terror" reached the desert village of Hajibirgit at midnight on 22 May. Haji Birgit Khan, the bearded, 85-year-old Pushtu village leader and head of 12,000 local tribal families, was lying on a patch of grass outsid...

Znet Article Fisk: A Strange Kind Of Freedom

Znet Article, July, 13 2002 Robert Fisk
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Inside the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, the Californian audience had been struck silent. Dennis Bernstein, the Jewish host of KPFA Radio's Flashpoint current affairs programme, was reading some recent e-mails that he had received from ...

Znet Article Fisk: I Wonder Why Bush Doesn't Let Sharon Run His Press Office

Znet Article, June, 26 2002 Robert Fisk
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Put your flak jackets on, President George Bush has spoken. He wants a regime change in Palestine, just as he wants a regime change in Iraq. He reads the Israeli government press handouts and accurately quotes them to his American people. Ariel ...

Znet Article Fisk: Fatal Vision: How Bush Has Given Up On Peace

Znet Article, June, 23 2002 Robert Fisk
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George Bush Junior gave up last week. After all the blustering and grovelling and the disobeyed instructions to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and all the hectoring of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and all the "visions" of a Palestinian st...

Znet Article Fisk: Starbucks the target of Arab boycott for its growing links to Israel

Znet Article, June, 15 2002 Robert Fisk
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Beirut. Across five Arab states a new and closely co-ordinated campaign to boycott American goods is being launched, with Starbucks coffee shops their primary target, but with Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson and Burger King outlets also ...

Znet Article Fisk: Bush's Titanic War On Terror

Znet Article, June, 13 2002 Robert Fisk
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First it was to be a crusade. Then it became the "War for Civilization". Then the "War without End". Then the "War against Terror". And now--believe it or not--President Bush is promising us a "Titanic War on Terror". This gets weirder and weirder...

Znet Article Fisk: Gangsters, Murderers And Stooges Used To Endorse Bush's Vision Of 'Democracy'

Znet Article, June, 11 2002 Robert Fisk
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By Washington wants the loya jirga to succeed. True, far too many of its pliant warlords - the Pashtun and Tajik gangsters whom the Americans paid in thousands of dollars for their sometimes loyal alliance against Osama bin Laden - have been tryin...

Znet Article Fisk: A Firestorm Is Coming

Znet Article, May, 25 2002 Robert Fisk
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So now Osama bin Laden is Hitler. And Saddam Hussein is Hitler. And George Bush is fighting the Nazis. Not since Menachem Begin fantasised to President Reagan that he felt he was attacking Hitler in Berlin – his Israeli army was actually b...

Znet Article Fisk: Why Does John Malkovich Want To Kill Me?

Znet Article, May, 15 2002 Robert Fisk
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It used to be just a trickle, a steady drip-drip of hate mail which arrived once a week, castigating me for reporting on the killing of innocent Lebanese under Israeli air raids or for suggesting that Arabs - as well as Israelis - wanted peace in ...

Znet Article Fisk: There Is A Solution To This War

Znet Article, May, 08 2002 Robert Fisk
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Ariel Sharon's "peace" plan presented to President Bush in Washington last night – get rid of Arafat, devise a more obedient Palestinian Authority and keep building settlements for Jews and Jews only on Palestinian land – is fantas...

Znet Article Fisk: Sharon the merciless and Arafat the corrupt have nothing meaningful to offer each other

Znet Article, May, 06 2002 Robert Fisk
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Sharon the merciless and Arafat the corrupt have nothing meaningful to offer each other

Znet Article Fisk: They are coming

Znet Article, April, 27 2002 Robert Fisk
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They are coming. That's what most Gazans tell you. The Israelis are coming. But the sand barricades are pathetic. Even a mile from the Erez "safe crossing'' point constructed during the early days of the mad dream of Oslo, the best that Yasser Ara...

Znet Article Fisk: Fear And Learning In America

Znet Article, April, 16 2002 Robert Fisk
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Fear And Learning In America

Znet Article Fisk: Mr Powell Must See For Himself What Israel Inflicted On Jenin

Znet Article, April, 14 2002 Robert Fisk
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Why doesn't Colin Powell go to Jenin? What has happened to the world's moral compass indeed to the United States when America's most famous ex-general, the Secretary of State of the most powerful country on earth, on a supposedly desperate mission...

Znet Article Fisk: This will be the week when we see who runs the US-Israeli alliance

Znet Article, April, 08 2002 Robert Fisk
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So what's the surprise? Suddenly Israel doesn't want to take our advice. Ex-general Ariel Sharon prefers to go on wrecking the Palestinian Authority, tearing up the Oslo agreement in the name of his Holy War on terror. Why should he worry about th...

Znet Article Fisk: A Speech Laced With Obsessions And Little Else

Znet Article, April, 05 2002 Robert Fisk
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Ariel Sharon could not have done better. The heaping of blame upon an occupied people, the obsessive use of the word terror - by my rough count there were 50 references in just 10 minutes - and the brief, frightened remarks about "occupation" and ...

Znet Article Fisk: The Bloody Battle of Bethlehem

Znet Article, April, 04 2002 Robert Fisk
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Jerusalem: Rotting bodies in Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers surrounding Palestinian civilians and militiamen in the place of Christ's birth, unburied corpses in Ramallah - Israel's latest war is turning into a human and political tragedy on a vast sc...

Znet Article Fisk: Farce And Terror In Ramallah

Znet Article, April, 02 2002 Robert Fisk
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Farce And Terror In Ramallah

Znet Article Fisk: Armored Invasion Brings No Peace

Znet Article, April, 02 2002 Robert Fisk
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If this is a war on terror, Jesus wasn't born in Bethlehem. The first to die was an 80-year-old Palestinian man, whose body never made it to the morgue. Then a woman and her son were critically wounded by Israeli gunfire. A cloud of black smoke sw...

Znet Article Fisk: The lies leaders tell when they want to go to war

Znet Article, March, 30 2002 Robert Fisk
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How much longer can Ariel Sharon pretend that he's fighting in the "war against terror"? How much longer are we supposed to believe this nonsense? How much longer can the Americans remain so gutlessly silent in the face of a vicious conflict which...

Znet Article Fisk: Arab Summit Lies In Ruins

Znet Article, March, 27 2002 Robert Fisk
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Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, threw Yasser Arafat into the valley of humiliation last night, banning his visit to the Beirut Arab summit in the face of feeble American protests. "Unfortunately, the conditions are not yet ripe for Chairman...

Znet Article Fisk: Arab states united in rejecting attack on Saddam

Znet Article, March, 19 2002 Robert Fisk
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Rarely can an American vice-president have met such a rebuff from America's Arab allies. Not a single Arab king, prince or president has been prepared to endorse a US attack on Iraq. Even in Kuwait – where Dick Cheney arrives today before ...

Znet Article Fisk: Arab States United In Rejecting Attack On Iraq

Znet Article, March, 17 2002 Robert Fisk
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Rarely can an American vice-president have met such a rebuff from America's Arab allies. Not a single Arab king, prince or president has been prepared to endorse a US attack on Iraq. Even in Kuwait – where Dick Cheney arrives today before ...

Znet Article Fisk: If Bush is having 'visions', America must need Arab support for another war

Znet Article, March, 14 2002 Robert Fisk
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It is the "vision" thing again. When President George Bush wanted Arab support for the US bombing of Afghanistan in September, he suddenly announced he had a "vision" of a Palestinian state. Then it disappeared off his radar screen. Yet now it's b...

Znet Article Fisk: Arabs Don't Want War On Iraq

Znet Article, March, 12 2002 Robert Fisk
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US Vice-President Dick Cheney arrived yesterday in a Middle East far more concerned with the firestorm between the Palestinians and the Israelis than with Washington's plans for a war with Iraq. President George Bush may believe Iraq is part of an...

Znet Article Fisk: America's Morality Has Been Distorted By September 11th

Znet Article, March, 07 2002 Robert Fisk
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In Afghan fields, the poppies blow. Yes, even as the Americans are moving deeper into the Afghan trap, the warlords and gangsters running much of the western-supported Afghan government are ensuring a bumper new crop of heroin for the world's mark...

Znet Article Fisk: Journalists are now targets - but who is to blame for this?

Znet Article, February, 23 2002 Robert Fisk
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The murder of Daniel Pearl of The Wall Street Journals was as revolting as it was outrageous. But why was he killed? Because he was a Westerner, a "Kaffir"? Because he was an American? Or because he was a journalist? And if he was killed because h...

Znet Article Fisk: Europe Must Stop Parroting The US Script In The Middle East

Znet Article, February, 20 2002 Robert Fisk
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While President George Bush rabbits on about the "axis of evil" and his "crusade" against "terror", a real tragedy is about to interfere with his mythic struggle against America's enemies. It's about a place called Palestine. And a place called Is...

Znet Article Fisk: America 'chasing phantoms' in Iraq says arms expert

Znet Article, February, 17 2002 Robert Fisk
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Scott Ritter, America's former top arms inspector in Iraq, has a neat phrase for Saddam's regime. The "phantom threat", he calls it. And he backs up his argument with an impressive assault on the credentials of Ahmed Chalabi, the head of Iraq's op...

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