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  • Second off, France and Britain drew borders around the globe, including in the European continent after the first world war. It had nothing to do with religion.

    Superpowers drew the border for the modern world, yet Muslims try and act like solo victims and how we purposely divided them. It's so fruitless.

    If they want a single nation or to re-draft borders, then let them do that, they are now soveriegn states and have that right under international law. You want soemthing then do it...

  • @kyle887923

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    The the native Americans complaining about the borders drawn up by English colonials in the United States were "fruitless" also, huh genius?

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    You talking about international law?! LOL -- More library, less Fox Newz you Zionist - Neoconservative warmonger racist piece of shit.

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  • @kyle887923 LOL If Muslims join together to create a caliphate, you and all your warmongering buddies would be the first to send their men and tanks over.

  • This is what annoys me...if Muslims want a single nation state then why not make it. Borders have changed since the 40's and 50's and there seems to be a new country every month getting recognition. They have never made any push for an uma nation. Mst are very patriotic about there country, Turks, Lebanese, Iraqi, ect

    Apparently they dont care enough about their homeland to stay in it, which is why millions each year try and get into Europe and North America. Most would leave if they could.

  • Karzai is a puppet of the oil majors - he is also very corrupt and totally inept. Fortunately for him, his sphere is only Kabul, he does not dare step out into the provinces.

  • Fisk keeps it real.

  • r.e. poppy article: pompous fucking twat

  • That news network is not worthy of Robert Fisk. The whole way through that interview, I just wanted the RT anchor to fall over and die. Get Jeremy Paxman in there to do it. Someone intelligent and serious.

  • A pragmatist with a heart,a rare commodity.Laser true on all counts.

  • Fisk was beaten up in Afghanistan by locals. Which served him right, but taught him nothing.

    Just look at this forum. Everyone hates everyone. This is Fisk's audience.

  • @Kurtlane

    Show me any youtube video about politics and you will find hatred.

  • @syrianpride I'm Muslim, black and looking forward to a cube like you trying you little pussy come and try it, we respect all Muslims not like you ignorant western ass loving, cocksucking new age Arabs, colour don't matter to me! PRICK!!!

  • @spamoni717 ignore pricks like syrianpride, he is a filthy shia with no moral

  • @spamoni717

    Fisk always quotes Imam Ali "If you see another man, he is either your brother in religion or humanity" Which is a great quote.

  • iranians are not stupid they are not going to war! syrians are! Assad should be thankful to Obama not to nuke Damnuskus!!

  • THE REAL ENEMY ARE THE BROWN AND THE BLACKS!!!!!

    PAKIS INDIANS AND MOST OF THE SOUTH ASIANS AND BLACKS ARE THREAT ON THE WHITE RACE

    KILL BROWN AND BLACKS !

  • @SyrianPride1488 syria & israel are the axis of evel.. i don't know who the hell is assssad or whatever syrians

  • Justice is a Freemasonry contribution to the modern English language. It is part of the vile maxim of the master’s of mankind, “all for ourselves and nothing for anybody else.”

    JUST US, just-us, justice, get it?

  • @centurion180ad Don't be ridiculous.

  • @IoValde Don't be willfully blind. Please open your eyes. It is for your own good, not mine.

  • Death to zionists

  • nonsense from Fisk once again.. it are people like this which has turned England into an Islamic hellhole where British teachers get their throat slit for teaching to Muslim girls. Islam is the scourge of the modern world..it leaves corpses and beheadings in its wake from Thailand, India, Pakistan, Europe, USA everywhere...Shut up Fisk.

  • @Mythical2000 Luckily the British people don't care for your particular brand of filth. Fuck off.

  • @Mythical2000 You dont know what you are talking about. Go suck the english cum out of your mothers arse you cunt.

  • Sick lunatic.

    

  • Good old Robert Fisk, always the 1st one to rationalize & try to justify why we should tolerate Islamist extremist violence & ideology. His ultra-leftist naivete is neverending

  • @LORDMCHUGH yes but not someone else's home !!

  • it's sad because this is what happened in Africa ohhhh so long ago when man didn't know better

  • Fuck you fisk, dont you ever open your mouth about Turkey!

  • @Ghazi571

    Holy shit, Turkish people really do deny the Armenian genocide? I assumed that was just a stereotype.

  • To the Security Council that the regime of Bashar Assad, the offender has lost its legitimacy to Syrian people and displaced to Turkey, Lebanon, a strong indicator of the seriousness of the situation and which is used by Iran and the militias, terrorist Iranian-backed "Hezbollah militia, Muqtada al- Sadr and the Revolutionary Guards "to spread terrorism, the failure to intervene to stop the bleeding will lead to the decline of international legitimacy in the Middle East

  • RTooDToo. A rubbish can with lazers and gay little beep noises.

  • pushtoons? do they push?

  • @WorldIslamicOrder No but they kill U.S soldiers every day, rightfully so.

  • Has anyone else noticed that Fisk is an alcoholic (the red nose is starting to give it away) and is often slightly or blatantly drunk?

  • @IslamicFarming1 He is an Englishman living in the middle East. This might provide an alternate explanation behind facial skin damage.

  • @ah19912 - maybe, but there is also the fact that he's blatantly half sloshed in this interview ;-)

  • @IslamicFarming1 Ha ha. He's a character alright.

  • @ah19912 He is Jew playing musical chairs. The music has stopped and he has found a seat in Beriut. The music starts again with the Arab Spring. He will move to Canada or Australia next.

  • @SecretTrollAccount1 I'm not quite sure what you mean. But I'm an Australian living for a bit in Canada, so that's a creepy coincidence. I think I can say with some certainty that he's not Jewish... and he's lived in Beirut almost his entire career, he's pretty stable there.

  • @TheAlexington I come from an ex slave colony and it took about 200 years of killing Dutch white creatures before slavery was abolished. If not for the consistent killing of Europeans for 200 years I would have been born a slave and within 25 years my body would have been worked and tortured to death.This has been the faith of 30.000.000 Africans. Trust me there is only one way Palestinians will be free from Israeli colonization.Consistent killing of Zionist colonist. Year in year out kill them!

  • And of course Europeans and Zionists don't lay down and die. They will kill and torture much more of us but if people are steadfast they will taste either freedom from European/Zionist tyranny or Freedom from life under European/Zionist tyranny. It is better to die killing Europeans than to live under oppression of Europeans.

  • Europeans have known since Jo Bruntland published "our common Future" that their excessive burning of carbon is damaging the climatic systems that enable life on earth.They also know that this is effectively causing the death, morbidity and misery of millions of humans and animals not only in Developing countries but also in Europe.Yet they rather let us die and rot away than change their unsustainable models of development.I say we should fight back through education, legal systems and violence

  • There is no shame in killing a colonialist occupying force. Colonialists will label any resistance illegal and terrorist but who gives a fuck about what a white devil calls you? Europeans still call Africans monkeys and Europeans civilized... .

  • @TheAlexington "And if he was a representative of a people, it doesn't say much for that people" - I suppose its not uncommon for colonizers to have little regard for the people in the lands they colonize. But neither have those people much regard for the colonizer. But if you get out of peoples lands they have no reason to hate or kill you...OBL did not first attack America, Russia, Brittain or Israel. They invaded and colonised FIRST

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  • Look I do not disagree that there are massive differences between OBL, Mandela and others. My comparison was based on 3 points: 1All were labelled terrorist, 2all fought against Europeans that left Europe to invade displace and terrorize indigenous populations of the lands they invaded and 3 the Aim of all was to take away the security and destabilize the economy of the colonizer. FACT remains: America, Russia, Brittain or Israel - Europeans invaded and colonised FIRST and got what they deserved

  • @TheAlexington Sorry I missed the first quotation mark...These were OBL words not mine.

  • @TheAlexington I think it's not fair to say that he was not representative of anybody. OBL has many sympathizers all over the world. OBL with the Taliban fought successfully against the Russians in Afghanistan. His aim: As for us, we do not have anything to lose. The swimmer in the sea does not fear rain. You have occupied our land, defiled our honour, violated our dignity, shed our blood, ransacked our money, demolished our houses, rendered us homeless, and tampered with our security...

  • We will treat you in the same way. You tried to deny us the decent life, but you cannot deny us a decent death."

    America HAS propped up corrupt governments in Arab countries, and has prevented International law to be upheld when it considers Israel. If people can no longer depend on International law to protect them from aggression and displacement they are entitled to use violence against those that prevent justice to be done.

  • or the rule of international law to be upheld. Now if we are going to to talk about the number of people killed by OBL lets do it count his non combatant victims and give me a number. Then count the number of innocent Arab men women and children killed by US and Israeli forces. However I agree that OBL caused many civilian casualties and you do have a point there.

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  • @TheAlexington I just have and I also specified on which grounds I made the comparison. So if you think they can't be compared I invite you to specify the reasons why they can not be compared. Off you go...

  • I always suspected that Hillary's Book, just like her Marriage was a FRAUD!

  • Most internationally recognized hero's have been labelled terrorists at some stage. Micheal Collins, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X. They tend to fight colonialists and armies that have access to strategic and resource advantage. It always takes more courage to strap explosives to your body to kill your enemy than to fly over in a plane and throw a bomb down.Thats why people will remember Osama Bin Laden and no one will remember the filthy dogs that shot him while he was UNARMED.

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  • He truly is amazing1 im a big fan

  • I have a new hero.

  • fisk is right.

    i just hope nobody confuses him with cheney.

  • this huys is just mind blowing love it i need to see more of his videos

  • This man is a beast.

  • "Arabs lost Hitlers war, therefore they lost their land". Obviously, although not said, this was implied. The most efficient way to respond to this would be "open up a history book". How do zionists allow those that were oppressed to then become oppressors is beyond me. Funny, the word "Zionists" comes up as a mis-spell as I write this, like its not a real word. Zionists commenting here are part of Israeli propoganda, and new accounts will always re-open. Luckily people are not fools.

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  • Usa invaded Iraq by saying that it was taking democracy there ( I know that was lie. ). Like all other middle east countries Iraqis could also make a revolution today to stepp down Saddam ,no need an invasion by using the valuable and holy things in a way of pronouncing them with dirty mouths!

  • GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD ONE!!

  • Fisk neglects to mention that the losers of war own no land. Arabs allied with the Nazis, therefore; they lost the war! Israel bought the land from those that controlled the land after WWII and did not steal it from anyone.

  • @GnashertheBasher So please explain why do the Germans rule Germany etc etc etc.

  • @theH0UNDSofD00M They dont. They have a puppet Government. They are now making Germans freeze over winter by switching off nuclear reactors to make the American and Czechs happy.

  • @GnashertheBasher "Arabs allied with the Nazis"

    Such a racist remark from an Zionist. Its to be expected. Like closing your own account down shortly afterwards because deep down you knew you was wrong.

  • @Tzimnewman3 "Arabs allied with the Nazis" Oh yeah suuure, just like how "the Rothschilds made a pact with the devil," and "the Jews own the world." Same perpetrator, different victim, my friend.

  • @lozoft9 i heard somewhere that the arabs did ally with the nazis, but because the nazi's respected the arabs unlike the english and the americans. To what point of helping the nazi's i have no idea. But wouldnt you go with someone that respects you than people that think you barbaric??

  • @Tzimnewman3 Ever heard of the mufti of jerusalem and bosnian muslim ss divisions?

  • @GnashertheBasher wow. that is why i hate war. deo vindice you niger nazi jew piece of shit

  • @BloodNorseGods "You refer to us as 'Goy,' and the Princess calls us 'nonhuman.' Why are we defined by you and in comparison to you?"

  • @GnashertheBasher forcibly bought like the yankee northern aggression. You bolsheviks think you can own stuff by printing paper and giving it to people. Fuck your Paper, Didn't Hitler want Israel for the Jews anyway and they demonize the man, seems like the jews can be on every side of every war.

  • @GnashertheBasher no they didn't most Arab countries either fought with the allies with what little they had like Egypt and Syria or they didn't fight at all like Iraq

  • I don't get it....why would the U.S. want to oust the Cairo leader?

  • daaaam, robert fisk is droppin some knowledge here!!!!! thank you so much for posting

  • To my mind, Robert Fisk and John Pilger are the two most brilliant journalists of the world. More of them, PLEASE.

  • Awesome video. 

    Fisk is very unbiased in his reporting and writing.

    Read his book 'The great war for civilization.' for a real history of the modern mid. east.

  • @LORDMCHUGH

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    Move the Israeli terrorists to Sudan.

    : )

  • there are 9 people Zionists who disliked this! Free Palestine!

    THEY DO EXIST

    here it is

    Darwin was right !!!!

  • @proPalestine0403 Darwin fucked his cousin. You approve?

  • I love this person telling exactly how it is. So it´s up to all of us living around the world, that we´re indoctrinated with a lot of shitty untrue information brought by our religion, education and media which makes us all hate eachother. Back to basics of life. Everybody wants to be happy and healthy. It doesn´t matter where you were born, a child is `clean´ of all the badness. The bad he learns from his envirement and media. So let´s learn from our failures worldwide and stop hating eachother

  • God Bless Lebanon and our Beautiful Beirut and protect our heavenly country from the Israelis!

  • @LORDMCHUGH No doubt, and I am in support for that, but the home doesn't have to be built on the crushed skulls and blood of people who have lived on these lands for 3000 years. The Zionist project is sure emotional, but it ignores other people's emotions; it worsens the situation of a people just like the situation of the Jews themselves. Israel's worst enemy is from within, as people are fleeing Israel for fear of retaliation, and that is the saddest thing ever, peace was once a possibility!

  • This guy is complete Joke. He fails to mention that nowhere where there is an islamic dominated society is there any kind of civility and human rights. Islam is a plague wherever it exists en mass atrocities and intolerance are the norm. Israel Arabs are privileged to live in a democratic land and amongst their corrupt backwards bretheren

  • @slfen You talking about democracy you IGNORANT? In what did the democracy you're talking about serve the Iraki people since the American Invasion of Irak? (and that's only 1 example I am giving) Answer that ! & I am a 1000% sure you would NOT allow me to break into your house and trash your belongings and kill your relatives as much as i would NOT allow you to do the same with my house ... so SHUT the hell up and KNOW what you're talking about!!

  • this man suffers from stuxnet virus.He should take 2 aspirin and call me in the morning.

  • The real question for Israel in government is: do you want land or do you want peace? If you want land, you will not have peace. You might get the land, but you won’t have peace.

    Bingo,

    You got it Fisk, and i wonder when the Israelis will get it too ...

  • Justice - Armenians will get their land back.

  • @havovpilaf But it's Landlocked Land!

  • Turkey must pay for murdering Armenian nation

  • What a great peice. This should be part of public school cirriculum.

  • i always say there are kinds people in the West

  • Listened to the guy on NPR, awesome stuff

  • Spend one day in the middle east (especially Palestine) and you will know why they do what they do.

  • yup. just go to their website, independent. co.uk. and subscribe from there.

  • sorry it took so long to reply, but the conversion is probably between 1:50 - 2 dollars.

  • god bless him the voice of truth 

  • go get em bob ! im reading the great war for civilisation and god you have opened up a can of worms that i knew i was going to have to learn about at some point .

    thanks for your diligence and freedom

  • What a guy!

  • 1 pound. most papers are 20p.

  • obama is a stooge to zionist control in usa of congress. his chief of staff served as soldeir in israel army. Rahm father was an irgun terrorist.

  • he is right!

  • @umhalil Noam chomsky has a great way to help the mind understand broad issues,The simple principle of universality goes a long way .Also I think J Krishnamurti is a great teacher.

  • Speak the truth to tyranny.

  • the independent is my favorite paper. i mean its expensive for a paper, but the writers are excellent

  • @nemesis700 The broadsheets always are, Irish Times in my country is €1.80 (£1.55).

  • WAY TO GO RT !!!!

  • Mr. Fisk,

    Turkey occupied nothern part of Greece since 1922, so why the Greek people didn't make a big deal of this issue like Palestinians and fighting for years for that occupation? Don't you think if Palestianians follow Greek ideology like Orthoux Christian it would bring peace to the middle east?

  • God Bless Richard Fisk

  • in Ramallah its the doctors and the educators etc. are the new wave of colonisers. you can see it it Nablus and Jenin now too... he is right though - the soldiers came first.

  • This is the first time I have heard the Palestenian/Arab/Iranian side of the story that makes some sense.

    Are we as muslims so stupid that we can not make a logical/reasonable case for ourselves? I have never heard any Pakistani/Arab or any Iranian making as much sense as this westerner.

  • @tauseef32 I think the arabs express themselves about the extreme violence committed against them ,which makes them appear like fanatics...Or we hear arab politicians who have been bought singing the american tune.Fisks views are drowned out by propoganda because they are most dangerous to power centers.

  • your idea not stand up against murder your thought . your support england oil helping terrorist and media you mr dirrt that attack israel you bring this war you mr fisk and media that attacking us .

    you about your lie about israel .

    usa Europe that dont stand for peace .

    amnesty you that help and support terrorist you help murder .

    greenfeld meir

  • @greenfeld5

    this man is telling the truth, why would he support terrorists with the truth?

  • @PeaceandUnity1972 no he is outsider that only creating problem and just inflaming truth . he is lier .

    yes he got his on idea for us . what right any one has to come their and create more problem . he one sided support terrorist .

    yers all this people coming tp israel like israel the land , and provocative and helping arab to destroy us ,. is its usa or england .

    in the own country has economic and other problem

    greenfeld

  • @greenfeld5

    well, i think i understand what you mean but i really believe that this man is telling the truth for many reasons.

    What this man is telling is well known all over the world, the media doesnt show everything and thats a fact to.

    People like him who have been around as journalist walking in the conflictzones can tell us A LOT more then the ordinary dickhead who gets ALL of his info. from the media.

    greetz

  • @greenfeld5

    And what would u suggest in order to try to create Peace?

    Greetingz

  • @PeaceandUnity1972 good you ask stand up against terrorism . the world support them the arab you smell oil money

    big problem arab set of mind . i work for real peace . just live in peace . the attacking us daily . foreigner help them .

    simple just live in peace and will be peace . the attacking us , the whole arab world . and Palestinian . and from gaza . got at . set of mind ,

    greenfeld meir

  • keep in mind he is the media . he journalist he has believe and agenda

  • you sir the problem . usa .united nation, Britain, usa media . that attacking israel you support murder you that help killing israeli . support this palestnian .

    united natin one of the biggest terrorist you sir england brought on us all this killing

    you mr robert fisk a murder that know everything , stole and kill people ,

    you have idea and lie

    greenfeld meir

  • you start your idea by saying . that the west impose on other country they idea you do

    the same about israel . who ask you what your idean in israel about land or your idea .

    you america you Britain that create this problem you mr fisk that come there and have idea .

    you create the problem all over the world exctly went to rule , support and helping terrorist . you the idea to rule the other israel you the problem sir get out dirt.

    greenfeld meir

  • Great man.

  • TOP GEEEZER WELL SPOKEN

  • Smart Guy....this man should be PRESIDENT!!!!!

  • This man should be a KING. I swear to GOD he'd get my vote if he ran for office.

  • 04:47 He blabs "international frontiers" not even "Palestinian" notice this at 01:05, in his previous arguement 01:21 "we created artificial borders to divide these people".

    Exactly he admits that all Western meddlng is to divide the people of the ME, and that's why he shills for ISrael to surrender its borders and allow "internatiaonal peacekeepers" (not Arabs, or Palestinians or Israelis) to control the Israel/Palestinian borders. Anotherwrds he wants to keep Jews and Arabs divided

  • @AntiZionistCIAShill

    Notice. He blabs "international frontiers" is a euphemism for Western Meddling.

    The fact that Israel won in 1967 and retook the Jewish Capital of Jerusalem was a shock to the world which, they can't get over.

    Thus, the NWO needs to undermine it. Discredit Jews and Israel's eternal link to Jerusalem and dismantle it and restore EuropeanUS/Vatican Imperialism in the Middle East.

    Notice, its not the creation of a Palestinian State with Palestinian borders, this is avoided.

  • @AntiZionistCIAShill

    What is being shilled for by "middle east experts" and "peace process shills" are internationally controlled Israel/Palestinian borders. Anotherwords keep Jews and Arabs divided and fighting one another, so that the NWO can arm both sides and keep the war going to fill Western coffers.

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  • "allowing israel to follow its OWN POLICY CONTRATY to the wishes, is not necessarily in the interests of the United States."

    Exactly Mr. Fisk.

    Exactly, the US BUYS OFF the Israeli government to CONTROL ISRAEL'S INTERNAL POLICIES.

    In order to mask its imperialism, the American govt via its media shills claim that they can't criticize israel because AIPAC (a US govt tool to pressure Israel) controls US policy. Here Fisk is right, he claims the US must (and does) control Israels moves.

  • as long as the evil greed of the banker family [ rothchild, rockefellar, jesuit.........] still & will proceed there is no end to tyranny. they are the crux of all calamities on our earth. stop them by not getting involved in their financial banking system. kudos to robert fisk

  • This jentleman is telling truth .. but the fact is policy makers are not missing that.. maybe they dont like it .. and want want relity to be redefined based on the actions and explosions their weapons can make ..they need Mr Fisk and want us all to forget history, reality and logic and only reiterate their slogans and allegations.. this way they can reach their bonanza without taking the very long route reality may require..

  • I left school and kept reading history. It's honestly the only way to see where we are going. In Ireland you don't really get to learn much Irish history. European schools come here to learn Irish history for their normal lessons. I'm happy they do.

  • Excellent summary of the situation. Robert Fisk has consistently delivered the real facts concerning the Middle East, but for reasons that defy logic, Western Governments continue to ignore them.

  • Robert fisk is clever and he really understands whats going on! Big respect for that man .

  • Very smart man. ty

  • Robert Fisk is amazing!! I just want to know why the RT interviewer talks like he's been practicing his questions, seems more like acting rather than actually asking questions like a normal human. very robotic

  • He also says that all Arabs vary and are not united, which was surely also true at the time of the Versailles Treaty, so surely this One Arab Nation idea is empty. He also talks about our obsession with imposing our ideas on the Arab world, but then states the lack of democracy there as if they have no ideas of what politics they want. Isn't democracy more of one of 'our' ideas than it is 'theirs'?

  • @omsct The inconsistencies exist only in your mind . listen well and separate information and you will realise that there are no contradictions nor inconsistencies. it's you who was mixing the things to make your own statements.

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  • @mmsas1 What are you even talking about being out to "make my own statements"? He complains that we haven't let the Arabs define their own borders, while lamenting the fact that we didn't let America define them after the war. Listen and stop defending contradictions just because you like someone.

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  • @mmsas1 But if they have freedom of choice, what makes Fisk think that they will choose democracy? Sure we in Europe and the Americas love it, but let's face it, the Arab/ middle eastern world don't really 'do' democracy.

  • @omsct you base your argument on an assumbtion that if they don't choose democracy then the west must impose it on them. That is what you think and not what Fisk said. Actually he said the contrary : " ... at the end of the day, they're the ones who have to come to this decision, and if the delay takes an other century, we westerns have to put up with that." .

  • @mmsas1 But I never said anything about the West forcing democracy on them, or being made to because the Arab world would reject it. I am merely saying that we are we assuming that one glove fits all, or that democracy is every country's destiny. At 05:25, Fisk says "There is no serious democracy (in the Middle East)". Why should there be? By even just saying that Fisk is basically indirectly stating that there should be, and that democracy is the right way for all countries to be managed.

  • @omsct He was criticising a fact and not suggesting for the future when he mensioned the absence of democracy. Because to him, and to me, democracy is the abvious way of ruling that potentially guarantees the basic rights of citizens, but this doesn't logically emply that I or he believe that it is the unique way for such purpose.

    What can be emplyed and which is a plain fact is that human right are being violated on a large scale by those regimes.

  • @omsct The " own boarders arab wanted to define" are exactly that ones America wanted : one great arab state from Iraq and Persia gulf to Marroco on the Atlantic Ocean. And Fisk have stated this as an American dream as well as an Arab dream. So that wouldn't be " America define them ", but, rather, America against defining these artificial boarders by France and the UK against the will and the dream of people of the regon.

  • @mmsas1 Fair enough, I was wrong to assume that there were differences in the Arab and American plans. But, I still don't understand how this whole territorial region could really have worked. Fisk here admits the differences between tribes and peoples within the Arab world, and I just can't begin to understand how all different tribes could have been protected in a vast superstate. Take the Kurds for example - in the Arab world there are merely a tiny proportion of it.

  • @omsct I apologise for being unpolite with you . I initially thought that you were just a smart alek fiskee.

  • As much as I like Fisk, there seem to be some inconsistencies in what he says here. First, he talks about the fact that many of today's Arab nation states were actually created by Western Powers after WW1, and should be given the chance to define their own borders, but then states that the American idea to create one Arab nation was a good one (obviously despite being the fact that the Arab world wouldn't be creating it itself).

  • What a sharp and honest journalist Robert Fisk is, I am suprised I hadn't heard much about him before. I must admit that he has a great understanding of the historical and political context for regional issues, especially in a place as complex as the middle east.

    Shame we don't see many objective rational journalists as Fisk these days.

  • it all comes down to the incumbents appeasing their own people and manipulating them to believe in a biased version of history where injustice is legitimatized or completely ignored.. Muslims need an articulate leader who can blatantly and viciously confront the stereotypes and the pessimism concerning the Middle East.. a leader who can debunk propaganda voiced by Islamophobes and expose the corruption within the Islamic clergy THROUGH Islam itself.. Muslims need their Messiah.. search within

  • Fisk has it absolutely right! Change must come from within...Wz have to stop going there and liberating them and that way we can stop taking their refugees and expect those uneducated people to assimilate into Europe.

  • Fisk is part of a dying breed, he's journalist who doesn't merely recite government talking points as though they are facts. Whether you agree or disagree with him he is thought provoking and insightful. It's tragic that our media is now owned by corporations who are actively promoting government positions. This is true in the West and the rest of the world.

  • @Moustafro

    I agree with what you say, except I don't think that "Fisky" is a dying breed. Journalists like him have always been around and always will be. The thing is, you won't find them in the mainstream media. You have to search for them, patiently and with dedication. But when you find one, you find a gold mine and things suddenly start making sense. If, on the other hand, you watch only CNN and Fox, you only get angry and understand nothing.

  • @Moustafro Let's hope some new will come up! The huge journalists we lost as Tiziano Terzani, Oriana Fallaci will not be replaced but new will come as passionate as those, if not kill me now!

  • Brilliant.

  • His Arabic intonation is really good...

  • You have a question about the middle east? Watch him. He is physically there.. he doesnt make up stuff.

  • Go Fisk