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1. "President Bush will come here and there will be new 'friends' of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who 'liberated' them." ~ Robert Fisk
2. "The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means." ~ Robert Fisk
3. "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, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar." ~ Robert Fisk
4. "Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list." ~ Robert Fisk
5. "Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind." ~ Robert Fisk
6. "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." ~ Robert Fisk
7. "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 potentially subversive." ~ Robert Fisk
8. "And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating." ~ Robert Fisk
9. "Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist." ~ Robert Fisk
10. "I do not make stories up, full stop." ~ Robert Fisk
11. "Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?" ~ Robert Fisk
12. "It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers." ~ Robert Fisk
13. "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." ~ Robert Fisk
14. "Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought." ~ Robert Fisk
15. "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 truth out." ~ Robert Fisk
16. "When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and the over-spiced meat. It was the beginning of the Orient. And when I flew back to Beirut from Iran, I could pick up the British papers, ask for a gin and tonic at any bar, choose a French, Italian, or German restaurant for dinner. It was the beginning of the West. All things to all people, the Lebanese rarely questioned their own identity." ~ Robert Fisk
17. "In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim they have found another land without people if these refugees do not return." ~ Robert Fisk
18. "No militia or political leader is so powerful - his name never so influential - as when he is dead, enshrined on wall posters and gateposts amid naively painted clusters of tulips and roses, the final artistic accolade of every armed martyr in Lebanon." ~ Robert Fisk
19. "The cedars 'know the history of the earth better than history itself.' If this was so, it was little wonder that they had clung to life only here, up in these high altitudes where the mountains, ice and wind ensured that the Lebanese who so often took the name of the cedars in vain would rarely appear." ~ Robert Fisk
20. "Journalism can be lethal" ~ Robert Fisk
21. ".. ????? ??????? ?????? ???? ???? ????? : ????? ??????? ?????????? ????????? ?????????? ????????? ????????? ??????????? ????????????? ??????????? ?????????? ??????????? ???? ??????? ?????????? – ???? ?????? ????? ????? ?? ?????? ???? ????? ?? ???? ?? ??????? ?? ??? ?? ????. ?? ????? ???? ??? ?????????? ?????? ??? ????? ???. ??? ????? ?????? 1976 ????? ???????? ??????? ??? ???? ????? ???????? ??????. ???? ??? ???? ???????? ?????? ???? ??? ??????. ??? ????? ??? ????????? ?????????? ????? ??? ????? ??????? ???? ??? ???????? ?? ???????, ??? ????? ??? ??? ???????? ????? ????? ???? ????? ??????? , ???? ??? ??? ????? ???? ??? ??? ?? ?????? ????? ????? ???????????? ??? ?????? ????? ????? ??? ?????????? ????? ??????? ???????? ????? ?? ???????. ???? ?? ?? ??? ??????? ???????? ???:"???? ??? ??????? , ??? ???? ?????? ??????, ?????? ?? ????????".." ~ Robert Fisk
22. "In the long evenings in west Beirut, there was time enough to consider where the core of the tragedy lay. In the age of Assyrians, the Empire of Rome, in the 1860s perhaps? In the french mandate? In Auschwitz? In Palestine? In the rusting front-door keys now buried deep in the rubble of Chatila? In the 1978 Israeli invasion? In the 1982 invasion? Was there a point where one could have said: Stop, beyond this point there is no future? Did I witness the point of no return in 1976? That 12 year-old on the broken office chair in the ruins of the Beirut front line. Now he was in his mid-twenties - if he was still alive - a gunboy, no more. A gunman, no doubt..." ~ Robert Fisk
23. "It was, I think in retrospect, the most dramatic individual personal act I have ever seen a soldier take. The mighty powers may try to cover up, but the little people can still sometimes win." ~ Robert Fisk
24. "When I was in Berlin then, Nazism did not have the reputation it has now. Nazism? In every system in the world, you can find something good. But Nazism was not Nazism at all. The word came afterwards. In their system, I saw discipline. And we in the Middle East, we needed discipline more than anything else. -Pierre Gemayel" ~ Robert Fisk
25. "The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?" ~ Robert Fisk

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