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• The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I…
• When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look…
• 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…
• 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…
• The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised…
• In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.
• War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of…
• I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If…
• And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority…
• And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their…
• After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former…
• Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist,

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