Robert Fisk: An attack on Tehran would be madness. So don't rule it out
04 February 2012 12:00 AM
After invading Iraq over weapons of mass destruction, we plan to clap as Israel bombs Iran
Robert Fisk: History keeps repeating itself – as do clichés
04 February 2012 12:00 AM
Same Old Story. Journalists shouldn't use the phrase, but what else can I say when I prowl through press reports? Take the following. "It is slowly dawning... that the Americans are really going home, that there will be a ceasefire in this country soon, and then a march to the US... planes." Iraq? Nope. Afghanistan? You'd be so lucky.
Robert Fisk: Syria is used to the slings and arrows of friends and enemies
01 February 2012 12:00 AM
Bashar al-Assad is clinging to power despite the slow growth of a civil war. But if the regime should survive, what sort of country will it rule?
Robert Fisk: The present stands no chance against the past
28 January 2012 12:00 AM
The Palestinians are not only, it seems, an "invented people" – courtesy of Newt Gingrich – but the only Arabs on the Mediterranean not to enjoy a Spring or an Awakening or even a Winter.
Robert Fisk: We've been here before – and it suits Israel that we never forget 'Nuclear Iran'
25 January 2012 12:00 AM
The Ayatollah ordered the entire nuclear project to be closed down because it was the work of the devil
In the line of fire: Tom Hurndall
21 January 2012 12:00 AM
The photographs and journal entries of the young activist Tom Hurndall – who was killed at the age of 21 by a sniper – are a visceral portrait of the conflict in the Middle East, says Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk: Fragments of history rescued from oblivion
21 January 2012 12:00 AM
There are statements on the Bismarck, although contemporary reports got the story wrong
Poverty is main culprit as 19 die in slum tragedy
17 January 2012 12:00 AM
Building collapse highlights rental laws which have left Beirut's poorest tenants living in danger
Robert Fisk: The 'invented people' stand little chance
14 January 2012 12:00 AM
Thank goodness we don't have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while.
Robert Fisk: This is not about 'bad apples'. This is the horror of war
13 January 2012 12:00 AM
How many other abuses took place off camera? How many Hadithas? How many My Lais?
Robert Fisk: Assad faces his people's hatred – but as their anger grows, his excuses are still just the same
11 January 2012 12:00 AM
It was the Assad Speech of the Year. There was an international conspiracy against Syria. True. Arab states opposed to Syria were under "outside pressure". True, up to a point. Nobody could deny the seriousness of these plots. True. After all, the Syrian government itself registers 2,000 dead soldiers, while the UN estimates civilian dead at 5,000. And when Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan warned that the violence in Syria was "heading towards a sectarian, religious war", there were few supporters of President Assad who would disagree with him.
Robert Fisk: The shocking truth that killing can be so casual
07 January 2012 12:00 AM
More horror arrives in the mail.
Bonfire of the dictators
31 December 2011 12:00 AM
In the last part of our series, Robert Fisk ponders the fate of the despots who fought grimly against a revolutionary tide
Robert Fisk: France's shamefully forgotten allies
31 December 2011 12:00 AM
It took Indigènes to remind the French that they owed their liberation not only to De Gaulle's largely white Free French troops but also to 134,000 Algerian soldiers, 73,000 Moroccans, 26,000 Tunisians and 92,000 "others" from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Robert Fisk: Turkey's long road to reconciliation
24 December 2011 12:00 AM
Just for a moment, put aside the current Franco-Turkish war over the 20th century's first Holocaust – of the Armenians – and remember that Nicolas Sarkozy's electoral venality (500,000 French-Armenian voters want to hear him tell the truth) and Turkish nationalism (which feeds on holocaust denial) make a bad cocktail.
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