Is Robert Fisk suffering from the Bernard Lewis syndrome?
December 13th, 2009
by Yassine Channouf
Twice I met him, and as many times he delighted me. I can credit Robert Fisk with getting me interested in Lebanon. I have always read his books and articles passionately, and those who know me grew weary of my continuous references to him. But no more. The Fisk I admired is no longer the Fisk that the world knows today. His last article in which he equates Hezbollah, the Lebanese Resistance, with a bunch of anti-Semites is the figurative drop. The reason for this outrageous accusation? Hezbollah’s opposition to the teaching of the Anne Frank diary in the schools in the south of Lebanon. Robert Fisk has lived in Lebanon for more than 30 years, and most importantly throughout the savage period of the civil war. It is, nor should it be a secret that Robert Fisk is one of the best western journalists dealing with the Middle East, but that should not impede us from criticizing him on certain critical issues.
To hell with Robert Fisk
December 5th, 2009
Fisk is criticizing Hezbollah and calling it anti Semitic for objecting to the teaching of Anne Frank Diaries in Lebanese schools. we don’t need to read the Jewish sufferings here, we have enough suffering at the hand of the Jews to deal with. How popular would a book on German sufferings under French rule have been in the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi occupation?
On the latest Egypt-Algeria Match
November 20th, 2009The Moubarak regime wanted to use a victory of Egypt in the process Of grooming Gamal Moubarak to inherit his daddy. Now that they lost they have to play victims. There have been some hooliganism from both sides in Sudan, this is normal in Derby matches. among 10 000 Egyptian supporters 21 were slightly injured. The regime is trying to make that look like a war instigated against Egypt so that everybody rallies behind the flag and hence behind Moubarak and his thieves. Since Sadat Egypt became a petty country with many petty minded people that are brainwashed and supportive of the regime. They cannot deal with the fact that the glory of the Arabs lays elsewhere nowadays, namely where people still resist and still have pride. They can’t show anything as progress as poverty, corruption analphabetism and reactionary thinking are paramount, so they resort to football. And when the lose there too. they resort to self-lamentation and victimization. Pathetic regime.
Now Luk Vervaet, but you are next!
November 4th, 2009
The news that struck me the most during the past few days is the confirmation of a Belgian court of the ban inflicted upon my dear friend Luk Vervaet to enter Belgian jails to teach.
Luk who’s job is to teach at prisons will be consequently unemployed due to this decision. The reasons given by the Judge are those of Security of the state and they are not disclosed.