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“We live in a society in the West, where, when…” quote by Robert Fisk — Download Open image

“We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out orders or mafia men carrying out killings for bosses. But the way things happen in the Middle East is not the same as in the West.”

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