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Robert Fisk

Journalist and writer Robert Fisk is the leading reporter and correspondent of the British daily The Independent in the Middle East. He is the author of Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War and The Great War for Civilization: the Conquest of the Middle East.

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How can you trust the cowardly BBC?

by Robert Fisk

21 April 2009

BBC Special Middle East correspondent Jeremy Bowen was censured for a piece which he wrote for the BBC website last June under the headline "Six days that changed the Middle East", attempting to give context to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by analysing the events of the 1967 Six Day War. (...)

“Don’t be Fooled. This isn’t an Issue of Islam versus Secularism”

by Robert Fisk

2 March 2006

The story about the cartoons has nothing to do with what has been called the issue of Islam versus secularism. The fact is that Muslims live with their religion in their daily lives, culture, but not us. They have preserved their faith beyond countless historical vicissitudes. We, on the (...)

“No Wonder Al-Jazeera Was a Target”

by Robert Fisk

16 January 2006

On April 4, 2003, I was on the terrace roof of Al Jazeera‘s office in Baghdad. Blazing buildings and columns of black smoke delineated the horizon when I saw a cruise missile loomed up over the Tigris, whizzed by beneath one of the bridges and disappeared in the distance. I went downstairs (...)

The Independent UK

by Robert Fisk

Caracas (Venezuela) | 23 June 2005

We are all complicit in these vile acts of torture - but what can we do about it? If our government uses information drained out of these creatures, it is we who are holding the whips.
I still have my notes from a man who knew all about torture, a Druze friend in the 1980s, during the (...)