Category: Lebanon

Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe

John McCarthy knows the value of history By Robert Fisk, Saturday 11 February 2012 … How come people like historical memory holes? I’m moved to ask this question by the Lebanese Minister of Culture, Gaby Layoun, who said last week that “the Cedar Revolution does not exist”. He’s decided, in fact, to erase it from …

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Grovelling to Netanyahu

The ‘invented people’ stand little chance By Robert Fisk, Saturday 14 January 2012 … Thank goodness we don’t have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while. His statement that the Palestinians were an “invented people” marked about the lowest point in the Republican-Christian Right-Likudist/Israel relationship. So deep has this pact now become that you can …

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We do sleep soundly

The shocking truth that killing can be so casual By Robert Fisk, Saturday 07 January 2012 … More horror arrives in the mail. Clive Burrage wrote to me about his brother-in-law, Harry Leeks, pilot of an RAF Mitchell bomber in the last two years of the Second World War, based in Cologne in the first …

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Against all odds?

   

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According to the dictionary

    [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU Brand new track produced by Red Skull, taken from the highly anticipated album Soundtrack To The Struggle by Lowkey. So, we must ask ourselves, what is the dictionary definition of “terrorism”? The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. But what is “terror”? According to the dictionary I …

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The amiable historical mosquito

Phoenician footprints all over Beirut By Robert Fisk, Saturday 03 December 2011 … I walked down a Phoenician street the other day, built under Persian rule. A bit bumpy and uneven underfoot – like many a street in modern day Iranian and Lebanese cities – but this one happened to be about 2,600 years old. …

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Who of us has clean hands?

Why torturers film their handiwork By Robert Fisk, Saturday 26 November 2011 … When prisoners were brought to Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service for interrogation, their torturers often videotaped the torment. In the years after his downfall, I lectured around the world on the illegality and the immorality and the outrageous civilian slaughter of the invasion …

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