Robert Fisk asks: When did we stop caring about civilian deaths during wartime? He writes: I wonder if we are “normalising” war. It’s not just that Israel has yet again got away with the killing of hundreds of children in Gaza. And after its own foreign minister said that Israel’s army had been allowed to…
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Who says they’re a decent fighting force?
Robert Fisk, The Independent, December 31: Israel, however – always swift to announce its imminent destruction of “terrorism” – has never won a war in a built-up city, be it Beirut or Gaza, since its capture of Jerusalem in 1967. And it’s important to remember that the Israeli army, famous in song and legend for…
Oh to be a good little client state
Robert Fisk writes that “The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act” during the current Gaza onslaught. Why? Because it’s a brutal US ally that knows where its bread is buttered.
Bang, bang, everybody is dead
Robert Fisk in The Independent: Hamas’s home-made rockets have killed just 20 Israelis in eight years, but a day-long blitz by Israeli aircraft that kills almost 300 Palestinians is just par for the course. Israel will never receive security, nor deserve it, until it ends the occupation completely and treats Arabs with respect. In the…
History more than repeats
Do the Western powers learn anything from history when dealing with Afghanistan? Robert Fisk answers in the only way possible.
Death by any name
Some of that democratic Iraq, reported by The Independent’s Robert Fisk: Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come. The Independent has learnt that secret executions are being carried out in the prisons run by…
What Iranian bloggers are saying about the US election
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Antony Loewenstein, author of The Blogging Revolution, writes: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in New York last week and conducted a number of fascinating interviews that confirmed his chameleon nature. He told Democracy Now! — after expressing typical bigotry against homosexuals… — that his country would accept…
Don’t buy the Obama dream
Robert Fisk, The Independent, August 2: I was in the studios of al-Jazeera – the Qatar satellite channel so democratic in the eyes of Colin Powell that Bush later wanted to bomb it – while Barack Obama was performing his theatricals in the Middle East. “Theatre” is what I called it on air while the…
The Muslim mind
Part one of a Robert Fisk documentary from the early 1990s, Beirut to Bosnia, about the attitude of Muslims to the West in Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Bosnia. As relevant today as ever:
Finding cheap coffee elsewhere
First, Starbucks was (justifiably) accused of supporting Jewish extremism in Israel. Now, the company faces the wrath of another group: Seems that one person’s smut is another person’s morning latte. A Christian group based in San Diego found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo for Starbucks Coffee. The Resistance says the new image…