Quotes by Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk

A businessman admits that he ‘let go’ an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

Letting Go

Looks

Should

After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father’s war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career — in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad — watching the people within those borders burn.

Father

Land

War

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

Fingers

Imagine

Relax

And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority – all authority – especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

Government

Thinking

War

And it’s true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

Double Take

Hours

True You

At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the typically Lebanese response of no problem. It’s a lie, as we all knew.

Lying

Nuts

War

At the end of the day, bin Laden’s interest is not Washington and New York, it’s the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the House of Saud.

House

New York

The End Of The Day

At the end of the day, Osama bin Laden’s interest is not Washington and New York, it’s the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the House of Saud. There’s a great deal of resentment, even inside the royal family, at the continued military presence of the United States there.

House

Military

Resentment

Bin Laden is not well read and he’s not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

America

Bin Laden

Sophisticated

Bin Laden was constantly revolving in his mind the fact that he had got rid of the Russians; therefore, the Americans can be got rid of, too. And where better than in the country where he knows how to fight?

Country

Fighting

Mind

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Enemy

Fall

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Quotes by Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk

A businessman admits that he ‘let go’ an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

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

And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority – all authority – especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

And it’s true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the typically Lebanese response of no problem. It’s a lie, as we all knew.

At the end of the day, bin Laden’s interest is not Washington and New York, it’s the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the House of Saud.

Bin Laden is not well read and he’s not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

Bin Laden was constantly revolving in his mind the fact that he had got rid of the Russians; therefore, the Americans can be got rid of, too. And where better than in the country where he knows how to fight?

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