Robert Fisk
Born
in Maidstone, Kent, England, The United Kingdom
July 12, 1946
Died
November 01, 2020
Genre
Influences
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
49 editions
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2005
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Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
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The Age of The Warrior
22 editions
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2008
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Syria: Descent Into The Abyss 2011-2014
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2014
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In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939-45
9 editions
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1983
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الإبادة
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2006
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Robert Fisk on Algeria
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2013
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Arab Spring Then and Now: From Hope to Despair
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Robert Fisk on Israel: The Obama Years: A unique anthology of reporting and analysis of a crucial period of history
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2014
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Robert Fisk on Afghanistan: Osama bin Laden: 9/11 to Death in Pakistan
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“Terrorism” is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary, the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-sponsored violence— our violence—which is now used on the innocent of the Middle East ever more outrageously and promiscuously. Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. It has become a full stop, a punctuation mark, a phrase, a speech, a sermon, the be-all and end-all of everything that we must hate in order to ignore injustice and occupation and murder on a mass scale. Terror, terror, terror, terror. It is a sonata, a symphony, an orchestra tuned to every television and radio station and news agency report, the soap-opera of the Devil, served up on prime-time or distilled in wearyingly dull and mendacious form by the right-wing “commentators” of the American east coast or the Jerusalem Post or the intellectuals of Europe. Strike against Terror. Victory over Terror. War on Terror. Everlasting War on Terror. Rarely in history have soldiers and journalists and presidents and kings aligned themselves in such thoughtless, unquestioning ranks.”
― The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
― The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
“Soldier and civilian, they died in their tens of thousands because death had been concocted for them, morality hitched like a halter round the warhorse so that we could talk about 'target-rich environments' and 'collateral damage' - that most infantile of attempts to shake off the crime of killing - and report the victory parades, the tearing down of statues and the importance of peace.
Governments like it that way. They want their people to see war as a drama of opposites, good and evil, 'them' and 'us', victory or defeat. But war is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents a total failure of the human spirit.”
― The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Governments like it that way. They want their people to see war as a drama of opposites, good and evil, 'them' and 'us', victory or defeat. But war is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents a total failure of the human spirit.”
― The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
“When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and the over-spiced meat. It was the beginning of the Orient. And when I flew back to Beirut from Iran, I could pick up the British papers, ask for a gin and tonic at any bar, choose a French, Italian, or German restaurant for dinner. It was the beginning of the West. All things to all people, the Lebanese rarely questioned their own identity.”
― Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
― Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
Topics Mentioning This Author
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The History Book ...: * LEBANON | 60 | 304 | Apr 01, 2017 08:47PM | |
Conversations wit...: Thu 31st Aug 2017 - Robert Fisk: life as a war correspondent - Robert Fisk | 1 | 2 | Sep 12, 2017 10:59PM | |
Bayacayanii: One letter word game!!! | 136 | 20 | Jul 06, 2018 08:49PM | |
Middle East/North...: Feminism and Gender relations between religion and tradition | 48 | 95 | Dec 01, 2018 01:11PM | |
Middle East/North...: Reading about Beirut | 9 | 33 | May 03, 2019 06:52AM |