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Robert Fisk has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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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It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and…
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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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In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.
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War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of…
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I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If…
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And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority…
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And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their…
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former…
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Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist,
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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would…
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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks,…
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I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion…
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All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack ( of 9/11 ) has been planned…
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers,…
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The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom…
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