Robert Fisk

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Robert Fisk: Our need for beauty in the midst of war

Published: 12 May 2007

Flowers in war are a kind of beautiful obscenity, an attempt to create Paradise in Hell

Robert Fisk: Olmert undone by militia he said he could destroy

Published: 03 May 2007

So it has come to this. All those bodies, all those photographs of dead children - more than 1,400 cadavers (we are not including the 230 or so Hizbollah fighters and the Israeli soldiers who died) - are to be commemorated with the possible resignation of an Israeli prime minister who knew, and who cared, many Israelis suspect, little about war. Yes, Hizbollah provoked last summer's folly by capturing two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese-Israel border, but Israel's response - so totally out of proportion to the sin - produced another debacle for the Israeli army and, presumably now, for its Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert.

Robert Fisk: We are now in the firing line, sadly

Published: 28 April 2007

It is easy to blame ourselves. Our donning military costume was an act of folly

Robert Fisk: Caught in the deadly web of the internet

Published: 21 April 2007

Any political filth or personal libel can be hurled at the innocent

Robert Fisk: Fear and loathing on an American campus

Published: 14 April 2007

I have a desire to take Norm, Chuck and Al and bang their bloody heads together

Divide and rule: America's plan for Baghdad

Published: 11 April 2007

Robert Fisk reveals a new counter-insurgency strategy to carve up the city. The tactic failed in Vietnam. So what chance does it have in Iraq?

Mohamed Hasseinein Heikel: The wise man of the Middle East

Published: 09 April 2007

From Khrushchev to Sadat, many world leaders have felt the venom of Mohamed Hasseinein Heikel's acerbic commentary. Robert Fisk has an audience with the great Egyptian writer

Robert Fisk: The true story of free speech in America

Published: 07 April 2007

This systematic censorship of Middle East reality continues even in schools

Robert Fisk: The war of humiliation

Published: 02 April 2007

Our Marines are hostages. Two more were shown on Iranian TV. Petrol bombs burst behind the walls of the British embassy in Tehran. But it's definitely not the war on terror. It's the war of humiliation

Robert Fisk on Shakespeare and war

Published: 30 March 2007

Shakespeare could have been writing about Iraq or Afghanistan, his scenes of battle were so prescient. Robert Fisk dissects the Bard's attitude to conflict - and describes how relevant he has found it to be today

Robert Fisk: The crushing fear that stalks America

Published: 24 March 2007

The country is not at war. It is the US military that is engaged in an Iraqi conflict

Robert Fisk: US power games in the Middle East

Published: 19 March 2007

As the West looks anxiously at Iraq and Afghanistan, dangerous cracks are opening up in Lebanon and the White House is determined to prop up Fouad Siniora's government

Robert Fisk: The truth should be proclaimed loudly

Published: 17 March 2007

When has any publisher ever tried to avoid publicity for his book?

Robert Fisk: Torture in Lebanon via a Toronto stage

Published: 10 March 2007

The duty of an artist is to place imagination on a higher level than history

Robert Fisk on Bin Laden at 50

Published: 04 March 2007

The most wanted man on the planet was 36 when our veteran correspondent met him for the first time in the desert

Robert Fisk: How easy it is to put hatred on a map

Published: 03 March 2007

Our guilt in this sectarian game is obvious. We want to divide our potential enemies

Robert Fisk: In Iraq, the killing of 18 teenagers is a horrible routine

Published: 28 February 2007

This is a story with a caution. Eighteen teenagers were killed on Monday at a football field east of Baghdad. On Sunday, equally young students of Mustansiriya University - the oldest in Baghdad - were blown up by a suicide bomber. It has become a routine, at one and the same time more horrible and more normal each day. Only two years ago, a suicide bomber drove into an American convoy in Baghdad, killing 27 civilians, half of them children taking sweets from American soldiers. What price innocence?

Robert Fisk: 27 July 1880. A date Mr Blair should look up

Published: 25 February 2007

Those sending British troops to Afghanistan should learn the lessons of the Battle of Maiwand

Robert Fisk: Strong delusions and weak memories

Published: 24 February 2007

Papon insisted he did not know the fate of the Jews he dispatched so efficiently

Robert Fisk: Lebanon will be first victim of Iran crisis

Published: 21 February 2007

How easily the sparks from the American-Israeli fire fall across the Middle East. Every threat, every intransigence uttered in Washington and Tehran now burns a little bit more of Lebanon. It is not by chance that the UN forces in the south of the country now face growing suspicion among the Shia Muslims who live there. It is no coincidence that Israel thunders that the Hizbollah are now more powerful than they were before last year's July war. It is not an accident that Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbollah's leader, says he has brought more missiles into Lebanon.

Robert Fisk: A legacy that will haunt us for years

Published: 17 February 2007

Arthur walked into our garden and hurled the farthings on to the flower beds

Robert Fisk: War-weary Beirut marks Hariri death with peaceful rally

Published: 15 February 2007

So the Lebanese survived. The civil war did not begin. The second anniversary of the murder of former prime minister Rafik Hariri was more a festival than a vow of revenge.

Robert Fisk: Lebanon slides towards civil war as anniversary of Hariri's murder looms

Published: 14 February 2007

They were commuter buses, 10 minutes apart, carrying the poor from the mountain town of Bikfaya to the coast, targets of opportunity for someone who wanted to enrage the Christian community of Lebanon less than 24 hours before today's mass demonstrations to mark the second anniversary of Rafik Hariri's murder. Lebanon's killers usually choose the country's politicians, journalists and public figures to destroy but yesterday - in what was obviously intended to be a mass slaughter - they killed a bus driver, a Christian woman and an Egyptian worker. Two bombs packed with metal pellets, hidden under the seats of both buses, by someone who wants a civil war.

Robert Fisk: Conspiracy of silence in the Arab world

Published: 10 February 2007

Where are the sheikhs when the Iraqi dead are fished out of the Tigris?

Iraqi insurgents offer peace in return for concessions

Published: 09 February 2007

For the first time, Sunni insurgents have disclosed their conditions for ceasefire in Iraq. Robert Fisk examines the possibility of American and British forces coming home

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