Category: Lebanon

Nostalgic for the values that existed

Both Arab and Jew lived in the original Palestine. Why, Moshe Dayan asks, can’t they do so again? By Robert Fisk, Sunday 2 December 2012   “I was born here and I have a right to live here – the same thing goes for the Arab population” On the wall of the flat is a …

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For 64 years

As the ‘gates of hell’ open once more in the Middle East, these old journalistic clichés won’t do By Robert Fisk, Sunday 18 November 2012   Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Here we go again. Israel is going to “root out Palestinian terror” – which it has been claiming to do, unsuccessfully, for 64 years …

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Some are guilty, but all are responsible

The forgotten massacre By Robert Fisk, Saturday 15 September 2012   The memories remain, of course. The man who lost his family in an earlier massacre, only to watch the young men of Chatila lined up after the new killings and marched off to death. But – like the muck piled on the garbage tip …

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Keeping clean is a dirty business

The Syrian army would like to appear squeaky clean. It isn’t By Robert Fisk, Monday 27 August 2012   Every day, a new massacre is reported in Syria. Yesterday, it was Daraya. Slaughter by Syrian troops, according to those opposed to Bashar al-Assad. Slaughter by Bashar’s “terrorist” opponents, the Syrian army said, producing the wife …

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Sacrifices to the god Terminus

The Elephant in the Map Room By Frank Jacobs, August 7, 2012, 12:43 pm   My better half: “Are you sure about this? They’ll kill you.” Me: “Sure I’m sure. You can hardly expect me to write a series called Borderlines, about the strange lines that people draw to distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them,’  and then …

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Quelle horreur!

Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy By Robert Fisk, Sunday 29 July 2012   Has there ever been a Middle Eastern war of such hypocrisy? A war of such cowardice and such mean morality, of such false rhetoric and such public humiliation? I’m not talking about the physical victims of the Syrian tragedy. I’m referring …

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Modern-day version of maktab thani

Free the refugees of Nahr al-Bared By Marcy Newman, 26 Jun 2012 22:06   Last week at a candlelight vigil in Baddawi refugee camp for the camp’s dead and injured, signs posted on the school wall asked why, after five years, was Nahr al-Bared still a closed military zone? For the past five years, all …

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