Robert Fisk

Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices

Robert Fisk is The Independent’s multi-award-winning Middle East correspondent, based in Beirut. He has lived in the Arab world for more than 40 years, covering the war in Syria and Lebanon, five Israeli invasions, the Iran-Iraq war, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Algerian civil war, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the Bosnian and Kosovo wars, the American invasion and occupation of Iraq and the 2011 Arab revolutions.

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While the Palestinians will go on losing their land, the Gulf princes and their satraps will ensure that Israel is awarded peace at any cost, writes Robert Fisk

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This is one of a number of events around the world this week that should give us pause, says Robert Fisk

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Robert FiskIf Trump is re-elected in November – how will we react?

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Robert FiskWhat the US presidential race reveals about Biden’s stance on Israel

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Robert FiskIt may have nearly been forgotten – but Syria’s war is not over

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Robert FiskLebanon’s citizens have a keener sense of morality than we do

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Robert FiskHow do you save a corrupt country? The answer is almost impossible

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Robert FiskThe statesman John Hume and lessons around the Middle East

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Robert FiskThe repeated betrayal of Beirut’s suffering citizens is a travesty

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Robert FiskErdogan has deep faith in his strategy of politics cloaked by religion

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Robert FiskBeirutis have every reason to fear the cycle of poverty they face

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Robert FiskIn Gaza, deaths by suicide are now being talked about

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Robert FiskWe all have a responsibility to tell the truth about genocide

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Robert FiskWhen is a murder not a murder? When we call it a ‘targeted killing’

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Robert FiskThe ugly truth behind the First World War’s Chinese labourers

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Robert FiskHow did we get here on Israeli annexation? It’s all in one document

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Robert FiskThe most important story you missed this week was about Israel

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Robert FiskBehind the ‘lockdown’ cliches you’ll see what really scares the PM

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Robert FiskHow the Gallipoli campaign was hijacked by religion

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Robert FiskCanada has offered up mere empty words over Israel’s annexation plans

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Robert FiskTrump believes the army has got his back. He’s about to get a surprise

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Robert FiskNetanyahu can gobble up the West Bank and the EU will do nothing

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Robert FiskWe should not trivialise the trial of Benjamin Netanyahu

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Robert FiskPaintings from the 'edge of the world' in Lebanon offer a fresh view

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Robert FiskThe true story of Armenia’s forgotten Schindler

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Robert FiskIn return for Newcastle, the Saudis could give up Khashoggi’s body

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Robert FiskThe strange, sudden fall of Assad’s businessman cousin

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Robert FiskThere’s one way the fight against coronavirus resembles a real war

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Robert FiskBenny Gantz' betrayal of voters marks end of the two-state solution

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Robert FiskWho is the real enemy? Government, police or are we the enemy?

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Robert FiskRussia is about to face its biggest test yet in Syria

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Robert FiskHow do you get off the ‘terror list’? With cold, hard cash

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Robert FiskBiden says he ‘doesn’t have enough information’ on Iran. How odd

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Robert FiskThis is what Trump is doing in the Middle East while you're distracted

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Robert FiskThe language of the virus

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Robert FiskTrump should have the guts to call his troop movements a retreat

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Robert FiskThe Saudi royal family should beware fighting among themselves

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Robert FiskWhat links China and northern Italy’s outbreak?

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Robert FiskDon't expect a Democrat president to roll back Trump’s policies

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Robert FiskWhat do Trump, Farage and Hitler have in common?

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Robert FiskIran’s coronavirus outbreak is reminiscent of the Black Death

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Robert FiskThere is little chance of change in Lebanon – only more suffering

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Robert FiskTrump’s ‘deal of the century’ is impossible to take seriously

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Robert FiskHistory holds the clues to the Lebanese revolution

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Robert FiskUS isolationism is reaching its final narcissistic chapter

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Robert FiskChemical warfare bodies, be wary of Syrian war propaganda

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Robert Fisk Iran has been changed forever by admitting its great mistake

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Robert FiskWas Qassem Soleimani a monstrous kingmaker, or simply an enabler?

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Robert FiskTrump is starting a war with Iran – whether by accident or design

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Robert FiskTrump’s attempt to kill a people’s heritage is nothing new

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Robert FiskWitness to History: Palmyra was a political and cultural hostage

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Robert FiskWitness to History: The Arab Revolution

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Robert FiskBehind the scenes of one Middle East investigation I'll never forget

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Robert FiskHow do dictators retain power, even when reviled by those they govern?

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Robert FiskThere is another election the world should be paying attention to now

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Robert FiskAll massacres become 'alleged massacres' if you don't pay attention

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Robert FiskWhen you follow the gun trail, you can end up in unexpected places

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Robert FiskMeet the controversial Egyptian actor standing up against Sisi

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Robert FiskMichael Lynk’s UN report on Israeli settlements speaks the truth

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Robert FiskIn Canada, the poppy is being used to tell immigrants to ‘go home’

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Robert FiskI talked to everyone in Syria — that's how you find the truth

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Robert FiskHow Belfast prepared me for the Middle East

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Robert FiskMike Pompeo scorns the law because he’s never had to follow it

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Robert FiskOnly ‘believers’ can sell their soul to the devil and expect justice

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Robert FiskEverything you were told about the Syrian war was wrong – until now

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Robert FiskThe new Middle East revolutionaries share this one fatal flaw

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Robert FiskBaghdadi may be dead. But Trump has brought Isis back to life

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Robert FiskHezbollah threatens the peaceful and non-sectarian protests in Lebanon

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Robert FiskLebanese rioters won’t change anything while elites cling to power

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Robert FiskI don't blame the Lebanese rioters setting Beirut alight

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Robert FiskTrump has frittered away the American empire. Putin is Caesar now

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Robert FiskTrump and Erdogan have much in common and the Kurds will pay the price