“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.” WantEndsHouseInterestMiddleNew YorkEastThe End Of The DayMiddle EastBin LadenArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudis Author:Robert Fisk
“I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have come out with signs saying, "Please give us better roads. Please give us new prenatal clinics. Please give us a new sewage system." I'm sure they'd like those things, but it's not what they demand in the demonstrations. In the demonstrations, they talk about justice, they talk about an end to Israeli occupation.” PeopleGivingEndsJusticeStreetsPleaseDemandWestOccupationPakistanIsraeliDemonstrationGazaClinicSewageSaying PleaseIsraeli OccupationSign Sayings Author:Robert Fisk
“I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'” IfsKnowsShouldTryingFirstsEndsReasonHappensAbilityExistenceWitnessJournalistReports Author:Robert Fisk
“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.” ThinkingWarEndsGovernmentDiesChallengesHeardPoliticianAuthorityDecidedDefinitionsJournalism Author:Robert Fisk
“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.” PeopleWarEndsFatherSpaceEnemyCareersLandMiddleMonthsVictoryEastFormerBordersDividedMiddle EastIrelandSeventeenBaghdadNorthern IrelandYugoslaviaBeirutBelfast Author:Robert Fisk
