Israel Quotes by Robert Fisk

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

— Robert Fisk

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

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At the end of the day, bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi…

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I still wonder if the United States realizes how much planning went into this. When we talk about "mindless terrorists," we are…

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Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course,…

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The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames…

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I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin…

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Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

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Bin Laden was constantly revolving in his mind the fact that he had got rid of the Russians; therefore, the Americans can…

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A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself,…

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Bin Laden was very keen to point out to me that his forces had fought the Americans in Somalia. He also wanted…

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The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political…

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In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern…

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How could believers, people who regard themselves as true Muslims, get on those planes, quoting the words of God delivered through the…

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The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I…

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When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look…

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Osama Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would…

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The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published…

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I've lived in the Middle East for twenty-five years. I know exactly how these issues come up. Even my landlord, who is…

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I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have…

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We love to think this fundamentalism and terrorism is all about poverty, and, of course, it has a connection. You can see…

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Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger…

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If it is bin Laden, he's a very intelligent guy. He's been planning his war for a long time. I remember the…

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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—…

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When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

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Even my landlord, who is a moderate Lebanese guy, says, "But bin Laden says what we think." These people believe that bin…

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The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord…

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We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers…

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“When I was in Berlin then, Nazism did not have the reputation it has now. Nazism? In every system in the world,…

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Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all…

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Osama bin Laden is very shrewd. But he struck me, even in 1997, as being remarkably out of touch. I remember thinking…

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At the end of the day, Osama bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants…

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The bin Laden I met each time was in a simple Saudi white robe, with a simple, cheap kafiya and very cheap…

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The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised…

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Whatever the political injustices are that created an environment that brought this about, it was not Americans who flew those planes into…

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Individuals in various countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia listen to the tapes of bin Laden. They gather in groups of four…

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I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then…

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Some of the guys in the Northern Alliance are war criminals. One of the Northern Alliance commanders ran a slave girl network…

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