History Repeats Itself.
In June 2006, I received a book called “ The Great War for Civilisation, the Conquest of the Middle East”, by Robert Fisk.
I started reading the book in 2006 about the Palestinian/Israeli war in 1982, and Israel was bombing the hospitals.
As I was reading the book, in real life, there was another uprising in 2006, and the Israelis we’re bombing the hospital.
For the past 17 years, I have followed the situation daily and became aware that there was Israeli military, land occupation, wanton “settler” attacks on Palestinian people and their produce and farms.
An occupying army by law is supposed to protect the occupied people and the reverse is happening.
The IDF constantly assists the aggressors.
The BBC's
Jeremy Bowen also praised him following his death, and noted the controversy Fisk drew for his "sharp criticism of the US and Israel, and of Western foreign policy". Bowen described himself as an admirer who would miss Fisk's "guts and his appetite for the fight".[57] Fisk dismissed the controversy related to his reporting in Syria, saying that he was "writing only what he saw and heard".[61] His ex-wife,
Lara Marlowe, took exception to the use of the adjective "controversial" in his obituaries, saying "he was a prolific non-conformist in the world of journalism, whose judgments avoided jumping on the bandwagon" and, in her experience, had been "intuitive, rapid and invariably right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk
I have also read Andrew Bacevich’s book,
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
which confirms much of what was disussed in Fisks writings.
Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. (
/ˈbeɪsəvɪtʃ/,
BAY-sə-vitch; born July 5, 1947) is an American
historian specializing in
international relations,
security studies,
American foreign policy, and
American diplomatic and
military history. He is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the
Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies.[3] He is also a retired career officer in the
Armor Branch of the
United States Army, retiring with the rank of
colonel. He is a former director of Boston University's Center for International Relations (from 1998 to 2005), now part of the
Pardee School of Global Studies.[3] Bacevich is the co-founder and president of the
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
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