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Fisk: Return to Afghanistan
Znet Article, August, 10 2002
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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...
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...
Fisk: A Strange Kind Of Freedom
Znet Article, July, 13 2002
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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 ...
Fisk: I Wonder Why Bush Doesn't Let Sharon Run His Press Office
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
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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 ...
Fisk: Fatal Vision: How Bush Has Given Up On Peace
Znet Article, June, 23 2002
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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...
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 ...
Fisk: Bush's Titanic War On Terror
Znet Article, June, 13 2002
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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...
Fisk: Gangsters, Murderers And Stooges Used To Endorse Bush's Vision Of 'Democracy'
Znet Article, June, 11 2002
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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...
Fisk: A Firestorm Is Coming
Znet Article, May, 25 2002
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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...
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 ...
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...
Fisk: Sharon the merciless and Arafat the corrupt have nothing meaningful to offer each other
Znet Article, May, 06 2002
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Sharon the merciless and Arafat the corrupt have nothing meaningful to offer each other
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...
Fisk: Fear And Learning In America
Znet Article, April, 16 2002
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Fear And Learning In America
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...
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...
Fisk: A Speech Laced With Obsessions And Little Else
Znet Article, April, 05 2002
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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 ...
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...
Fisk: Farce And Terror In Ramallah
Znet Article, April, 02 2002
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Farce And Terror In Ramallah
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...
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...
Fisk: Arab Summit Lies In Ruins
Znet Article, March, 27 2002
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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...
Fisk: Arab states united in rejecting attack on Saddam
Znet Article, March, 19 2002
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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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Fisk: Journalists are now targets - but who is to blame for this?
Znet Article, February, 23 2002
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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...
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...
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...


