Robert Fisk: Syria denies killing General in car-bomb attack

Published: 13 December 2007

 
So, they assassinated another one yesterday. A general, Francois El-Hajj by name, not known in Europe but a senior officer and the chief of the Lebanese general [...]

Robert Fisk: A different venue, but the pious claims and promises are the same

Published: 29 November 2007

 
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Robert Fisk: Darkness falls on the Middle East

In Beirut, people are moving out of their homes, just as they have in Baghdad
Published: 24 November 2007
 
So where do we go from here? I am talking into blackness because there is no electricity in [...]

Robert Fisk: Secret armies pose sinister new threat to Lebanon

Lebanon is peopled with ghosts. But the phantoms now returning to haunt this damaged country –the militias which tore it apart more than 30 years ago – are real. Guns are flooding back into the country – $800 for an AK-47, $3,700 for a brand-new French Famas – as Lebanon security apparatus hunt desperately for [...]

Robert Fisk on Media Distortion of Hizbollah and the situation in Lebanon

 Two separate but excellent short videos

Robert Fisk: Beirut to Bosnia (documentary film)

I can’t recommend this series more highly. When I saw Fisk speak about his new book in Glasgow (2005) he used clips from it very effectively. While viewing horrible crimes committed against Muslims in the 90’s he asks (paraphrasing) “What have the Muslims got in store for us? Watchout!”
Why have so many Muslims [...]

The Innocent Speak « The Fanonite

In the case of Lebanon, Robert Fisk’s friendship with the late Rafiq Hariri seems to have taken the best of his judgement lately however in today’s report, he eschews the coloured speculations for his real strength — strong descriptive reporting. As I had mentioned in my earlier post, the suffering of the innocent victims of [...]

Robert Fisk: The road to Jerusalem (via Lebanon) - Independent Online Edition > Robert Fisk

Inspired by al-Qa’ida, a hitherto little-known militant group is behind the outbreak of bloody violence which has left scores dead
Published: 23 May 2007

 
They came into Lebanon last summer when the world was watching Israel smash this small nation in a vain attempt to destroy the Hizbollah. But the men who set up their grubby little office [...]

Robert Fisk: A front-row seat for this Lebanese tragedy

Published: 22 May 2007
There is something obscene about watching the siege of Nahr el-Bared. The old Palestinian camp - home to 30,000 lost souls who will never go “home” - basks in the Mediterranean sunlight beyond a cluster of orange orchards. Soldiers of the Lebanese army, having retaken their positions on the main road north, [...]

Robert Fisk: Scores dead as Lebanese army battles Islamists in bloodiest day since civil war

Butchery was the word that came to mind. Twenty-three Lebanese soldiers and police, 17 Sunni Muslim gunmen. How long can Lebanon endure this? Just before he died, one of the armed men - Palestinians? Lebanese? - we still don’t know - shot a soldier right beside me. He fell down on his back, crying with [...]

Robert Fisk: US power games in the Middle East

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
The spring rain beat down like ball-bearings on the flat roof of General Claudio Graziano’s office. Much of southern Lebanon looked like a sea of mud this [...]

Response to “Why Fisk is wrong”

Why Fisk is wrong about Lebanon
“This is how the conflict began in Lebanon. Outbreaks of sectarian hatred, appeals for restraint, promises of aid from Western and Arab nations and a total refusal to understand that this is how civil wars begin”.
Robert Fisk, ‘World ignores Signs of Civil War in Lebanon’, UK Independent (27 Jan)
Robert [...]

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 [...]

Robert Fisk: Please spare me the word ‘terrorist’

February 4th, 2007 — peoplesgeography
Please spare me the word ‘terrorist’
Lebanon is a good place to find out what tosh the ‘terror’ merchants talk
by Robert Fisk | The Independent | 3 Feb 2007
So it was back to terror, terror, terror this week. The “terrorist” Hizbollah was trying to destroy the “democratically elected government” of Fouad Siniora [...]

Why Fisk is wrong about Lebanon

January 29th, 2007 — peoplesgeography

Mike Whitney responds to a short article by Fisk in The Independent that claims a civil war based on “sectarian hatred” is imminent. Many of the comments responding to the article at ICH were livid, questioning Fisk’s allegiances and utility to the powers that be. I’m still pondering this one, [...]