“I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.”
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Robert William Fisk (12 July 1946 – 30 October 2020) was a British journalist, writer and political scientist. As an international correspondent, he covered the civil wars in Lebanon, Algeria, and Syria, the Iran–Iraq conflict, the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Islamic revolution in Iran, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. An Arabic speaker, he was among the few Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden. Fisk, who worked as the Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent since 1989, received many journalism awards, including the Press Awards Foreign Reporter of the Year seven times. His books include *The Point of No Return* (1975), *In Time of War* (1985), *Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War* (1990), *The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East* (2005),[1] and *Syria: Descent Into the Abyss* (2015).
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“I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.”
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“The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban...”
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“I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle...”
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“The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palest...”
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“One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.”
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“The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.”
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“American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.”
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“In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?”
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“Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who...”
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“We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produce...”
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“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 get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the tr...”
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“Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.”
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“The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.”
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“When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of...”
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“When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where th...”
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“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.”
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“U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentia...”
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