Dramatic Return for the Living and the Dead

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jul 18, 2008 Yesterday [July 16] was the last day of the 2006 Lebanon war, the final chapter of Israel's folly and Hizbollah's hubris, a grisly day of corpse-swapping and refrigerated body parts and coffin after bleak wooden coffin on trucks crossing the Israeli border, which left old Ali Ahmed al-Sfeir and his wife, Wahde, stooped and broken with grief. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Educating the U.S. About the Middle East

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jul 15, 2008 "You in the West have a moral duty in Europe to educate the United States more about the Middle East. If they don't listen to you, they will not listen to us. They will continue with their mistakes." I don't think they're going to listen, I mutter. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Snapshots of Life and Death in Baghdad

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jul 4, 2008 Three bodies lie beside a Baghdad street on a blindingly hot day. The one on the right is dressed in a white shirt and bright green trousers, his hands tied behind his back. Two others on the left lie shoeless, both dressed in check shirts, dumped -- how easily we use that word of Baghdad's corpses -- on a yard of dirt and bags of garbage. They, too, of course, are now garbage. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The West’s Weapon of Self-Delusion

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jun 8, 2008 So they are at it again, the great and the good of American democracy, groveling and fawning to the Israeli lobbyists of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), repeatedly allying themselves to the cause of another country and one that is continuing to steal Arab land. Will this ever end? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Hezbollah Rules West Beirut in Iran’s Proxy War With America

Robert Fisk / Truthdig May 11, 2008 Another American humiliation. The Shia gunmen who drove past my apartment in west Beirut yesterday afternoon were hooting their horns, making V-signs, leaning out of the windows of SUVs with their rifles in the air, proving to the Muslims of the capital that the elected government of Lebanon has lost. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Gardens of the Devil

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Mar 1, 2008 The first time I saw one, my first instinct was to pick it up. It shone in the sunlight, bright green, something new and fresh amid the dry grass of the south Lebanon hills. The little cluster bomblet seemed to have been made to hold in the hand. No wonder the little children died. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

A Lesson in Courage From Beirut

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 2, 2007 Not only is The Independent reporter Fisk, like many others in Beirut, no longer shocked by a murder of yet another member of parliament, but he also is no longer affected by viewing the remains of the dead. Such is life in Lebanon today. Here, Fisk relates how Lebanese officials are learning to exist in a perpetual fog of fear. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Lebanese Strike a Blow at U.S.-Backed Government

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Aug 11, 2007 True, the US may be able to "spread democracy" to other nations throughout the world, but, as The Independent's Robert Fisk points out, that doesn't mean that the U can control how those nations exercise their democratic rights Take Lebanon, for example, where, Fisk wryly notes, "The Arabs have, once more, followed democracy and voted for the wrong man". Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Expecting the Worst in Lebanon

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Aug 4, 2007 The seasoned Mideast reporter for the British paper The Independent returns home to his flat in Beirut to find his landlord reinforcing his building with an iron door. After considering the state of affairs in Lebanon -- not to mention in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Gaza -- Fisk gets behind his landlord's security plan. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Lawrence of Arabia Had it Right About Iraq

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jul 19, 2007 Nearly 80 years ago, Lt Col Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, composed a prescient Encyclopedia Britannica entry for the term guerrilla, which foreign correspondent Robert Fisk calls "a chilling read because it contains so ghastly a message to the American armies in Iraq" This article originally appeared in Britain's The Independent . Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

How Can Blair Possibly Be Given This Job?

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jun 30, 2007 Tony Blair has moved out of 10 Downing Street and is moving on to a position as Britain's Middle East envoy -- which strikes reporter Robert Fisk as astonishing news, since, as he puts it in this article from Britain's The Independent, Blair "is a politician who has failed in everything he has ever tried to do in the Middle East." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Welcome to ‘Palestine’

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jun 23, 2007 The Independent's Middle East correspondent looks into the current state of "Palestine" and the West's complicated -- and contradictory -- relations with the region and its leaders. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )