Frasi di Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk è un giornalista britannico.

È corrispondente dal Medio Oriente per il quotidiano britannico The Independent. Da circa 25 anni il reporter di guerra risiede nella capitale libanese Beirut.

Figlio di un ex soldato inglese della prima guerra mondiale, Robert Fisk studiò giornalismo in Inghilterra e in Irlanda. Lavorò come corrispondente in Irlanda, Ulster e Portogallo. Dal 1976 lavorò nel Medio Oriente, prima come corrispondente del The Times e successivamente come corrispondente per il quotidiano The Independent.

I suoi maggiori lavori riguardarono la guerra civile libanese , l'invasione sovietica dell'Afghanistan , la guerra Iraq-Iran , l'invasione israeliana del Libano , la guerra civile in Algeria e le guerre balcaniche. Seguì il conflitto israelo-palestinese, fu sul fronte della Prima Guerra del Golfo Persico e la Seconda Guerra del Golfo Persico .

Ha contribuito alla diffusione internazionale delle notizie riguardanti i massacri della guerra civile algerina, degli omicidi di Saddam Hussein, delle rappresaglie israeliane durante l'Intifada palestinese e le attività del governo degli Stati Uniti in Afghanistan e in Iraq. Il suo libro del 2005, Cronache mediorientali, è probabilmente la sua opera più nota, insieme a Il martirio di una nazione del 1990.

Il New York Times lo descrive come "probabilmente il più famoso corrispondente estero britannico". Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Luglio 1946
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Robert Fisk: Frasi in inglese

“Terrorism' is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary, the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-sponsored violence - our violence - which is now used on the innocent of the Middle East ever more outrageously and promiscuously. Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. It has become a full stop, a punctuation mark, a phrase, a speech, a sermon, the be-all and end-all of everything that we must hate in order to ignore injustice and occupation and murder on a mass scale. Terror, terror, terror, terror. It is a sonata, a symphony, an orchestra tuned to every television and radio station and news agency report, the soap-opera of the Devil, served up on prime-time or distilled in wearyingly dull and mendacious form by the right-wing 'commentators' of the America east coast or the Jerusalem Post or the intellectuals of Europe. Strike against Terror. Victory over Terror. War on Terror. Everlasting War on Terror. Rarely in history have soldiers and journalists and presidents and kings aligned themselves in such thoughtless, unquestioning ranks. In August 1914, the soldiers thought they would be home by Christmas. Today, we are fighting for ever. The war is eternal. The enemy is eternal, his face changing on our screens. Once he lived in Cairo and sported a moustache and nationalised the Suez Canal. Then he lived in Tripoli and wore a ridiculous military uniform and helped the IRA and bombed American bars in Berlin. Then he wore a Muslim Imam's gown and ate yoghurt in Tehran and planned Islamic revolution. Then he wore a white gown and lived in a cave in Afghanistan and then he wore another silly moustache and resided in a series of palaces around Baghdad. Terror, terror, terror. Finally, he wore a kuffiah headdress and outdated Soviet-style military fatigues, his name was Yassir Arafat, and he was the master of world terror and then a super-statesman and then again, a master of terror, linked by Israeli enemies to the terror-Meister of them all, the one who lived in the Afghan cave.”

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

“And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.”

Origine: The Great War for Civilization (2005), Chapter 11: 'Fifty Thousand Miles From Palestine' (page 464)

“Now let's be fair. College staff have every right to take their own protection against America's notoriously inaccurate "smart" bombs.”

Cows and armed guards on a college campus. Where is the truth amid all this subterfuge? http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles204.htm, April 2, 2003
2003

“We have been conned again. The Israeli elections, we are told, mean that the dream of "Greater Israel" has finally been abandoned…But it is a lie.”

Another Brick in the Wall http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-040406231246.htm, April 4, 2006
2006

“Yesterday, with an inevitability born of the utterly false promise that the bloodbath in Iraq is yielding dividends, we were supposed to believe that the death of Zarqawi was a famous victory.”

Zarqawi's end is not a famous victory, nor will it bring Iraq any nearer to peace http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13556.htm, June 9, 2006
2006

“I can't help wondering today how many of the innocents slaughtered in Haditha took the opportunity to vote in the Iraqi elections -- before their "liberators" murdered them.”

The way Americans like their war http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/272620_haditha04.html, June 4, 2006
2006

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