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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).
Ariel Sharon’s “peace” plan presented to President Bush in Washington last night – get rid of Arafat, devise a more obedient Palestinian…
Jerusalem. Self-delusion has crossed the Atlantic. George Bush is having visions again – just as he did before the most recent bloodbath…
They are coming. That’s what most Gazans tell you. The Israelis are coming. But the sand barricades are pathetic. Even a mile…
As an outspoken critic of US policy in the Middle East, Fisk expected a hostile reception when he paid his first visit…
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…
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…
Ariel Sharon could not have done better. The heaping of blame upon an occupied people, the obsessive use of the word terror…
Jerusalem: Rotting bodies in Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers surrounding Palestinian civilians and militiamen in the place of Christ’s birth, unburied corpses in Ramallah…
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…