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  • The army is back, but don’t expect it to disarm Hizbollah
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The army is back, but don’t expect it to disarm Hizbollah
    Robert Fisk - The Independent August 18, 2006
    Now you see them, now you don’t. Hizbollah weapons? None to be seen. And none to be collected by the Lebanese army. For when this august body of men crossed the Litani river yesterday, their officers made it perfectly clear that it would not be the army’s job to disarm the Hizbollah. Nor was anyone in Lebanon surprised. After all, most of the Lebanese troops here are Shias - like the (…)

  • In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth
    Robert Fisk - The Independent August 16, 2006
    In the sparse Baathist drawing rooms of Damascus, reality often seems a long way away. But it was a sign of the times that President Bashar al-Assad was able to bring the great and the good of Damascus to their feet by the simple token of telling the truth - which no other Arab leader has chosen to do these past five weeks: that the Lebanese Hizbollah guerrilla army has, in (…)

  • As the 6am ceasefire takes effect... the real war begins
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe - and Israel may believe - that the UN ceasefire due to come into effect at 6am today will mark the beginning of the end of the latest dirty war in Lebanon after up to 1,000 Lebanese civilians and more than 30 Israeli civilians have been killed. But the reality is quite different and will suffer no such self-delusion: the Israeli army, reeling under the Hizbollah’s onslaught of the past 24 hours, is now facing the (…)

  • Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure
    Robert Fisk - The Independent August 15, 2006
    They made a desert and called it peace. Srifa - or what was once the village of Srifa - is a place of pancaked homes, blasted walls, rubble, starving cats and trapped corpses. But it is also a place of victory for the Hizbollah, whose fighters walked amid the destruction yesterday with the air of conquering heroes. So who is to blame for this desert? The Shia militia which provoked this (…)

  • As the 6am ceasefire takes effect... the real war begins
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    As the 6am ceasefire takes effect... the real war begins
    Robert Fisk - The Independent August 14, 2006
    The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe - and Israel may believe - that the UN ceasefire due to come into effect at 6am today will mark the beginning of the end of the latest dirty war in Lebanon after up to 1,000 Lebanese civilians and more than 30 Israeli civilians have been killed. But the reality is quite different and will suffer no such self-delusion: the (…)

  • LENANON : Crocodile tears of leaders as city burns By Robert FISK
    9 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Crocodile tears of leaders as city burns
    By Robert Fisk
    08/08/06 "The Independent" — — Shortly after 4am, the fly-like buzz of an Israeli drone came out of the sky over my home. Coded MK by the manufacturers, Lebanese mothers have sought to lessen their children’s fears of this ominous creature by transliterating it as "Um Kamel", the Mother of Kamel. It is looking for targets and at night, like all the massacres being perpetrated by the Israeli air force across southern Lebanon, you (…)

  • Robert Fisk: A Nato-led force would be in Israel’s interests, but not Lebanon’s
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    Every foreign army - including the Israelis - comes to grief in Lebanon.
    So, how come George Bush and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara - after their inevitable disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq - believe that a Nato-led force is going to survive on the south Lebanese border? The Israelis would obviously enjoy watching its deployment - it will be time for the West to take the casualties - but Hizbollah is likely to view its arrival as a proxy Israeli army. It is, after all, (…)

  • Robert Fisk Thinks there will be another 9/11
    5 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And all across the Muslim world, "we" - the West, America, Israel - are fighting not nationalists but Islamists. And watching the martyrdom of Lebanon this week - its slaughtered children in Qana packed into plastic bags until the bags ran out and their corpses had to be wrapped in carpets - a terrible and daunting thought occurs to me, day by day. That there will be another 9/11.
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1214522.ece
    The same things occured to me when Israel (…)

  • The Truth Of British Premier’s "Urgent Diplomacy"
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Truth Of British Premier’s "Urgent Diplomacy" Robert Fisk, The Independent Saturday, 29, July, 2006
    I dropped by the hospital in Marjayoun this week to find a young girl lying in a hospital bed, swathed in bandages, her beauty scarred forever by some familiar wounds; the telltale dark-red holes in her skin made by cluster bombs, the weapon we used in Iraq to such lethal effect and which the Israelis are now using to punish the civilians of southern Lebanon.
    And, of course, it (…)

  • Smoke Signals from the Battle of Bint Jbeil By Robert FISK
    28 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Smoke Signals from the Battle of Bint Jbeil By ROBERT FISK
    Qlaya, Southern Lebanon
    Is it possible - is it conceivable - that Israel is losing its war in Lebanon?
    From this hill village in the south of the country, I am watching the clouds of brown and black smoke rising from its latest disaster in the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil: up to 13 Israeli soldiers dead, and others surrounded, after a devastating ambush by Hizbollah guerrillas in what was supposed to be a successful Israeli (…)