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The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe – and Israel may believe – that the UN ceasefire due…
Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent of The Independent, is the author of Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (London: André Deutsch, 1990). He holds numerous awards for journalism, including two Amnesty International UK Press Awards and seven British International Journalist of the Year awards. His other books include The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster (Andre Deutsch, 1975); In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939-45 (Andre Deutsch, 1983); and The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East (4th Estate, 2005).
Shortly after 4am, the fly-like buzz of an Israeli drone came out of the sky over my home. Coded MK by the…
They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. “Mehdi Hashem, aged seven – Qana,” was written in felt…
07/28/06 “The Independent” — — It was supposed to be a routine trip across the Lebanese killing fields for the brave men…
Qlaya, Southern Lebanon — Is it possible – is it conceivable – that Israel is losing its war in Lebanon? From this…
How brave our warships looked at dawn. Spread over the pale blue Mediterranean, bristling with cannons and machine guns and missiles, it…
Strange things happen when a reporter strays off his beat. Vast regions of the earth turn out to have different priorities. The…
Stephen Walt towers over me as we walk in the Harvard sunshine past Eliot Street, a big man who needs to be…
It is a bright winter morning and I am sipping my first coffee of the day in Los Angeles. My eye moves…
02/26/06 “The Independent” — Everyone in the Middle East rewrites history, but never before have we had a US administration so wilfully,…