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British foreign correspondent - Interview - Cover Story
Fisk, a highly regarded Middle East observer, comments on the continuing Palestinian-Israeli violence. He recounts his coverage of Israel's 1996 intentional bombing of the Qana United Nations refugee base in Lebanon, and other examples, of how Western media favors Israel.See the full content of this document
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Robert Fisk.
Robert Fisk is Britain's most highly decorated foreign correspondent. He has received the British International Journalist of the Year award seven times, most recently in 1995 and 1996. His specialty is the Middle East, where he has spent the last twenty-three years. Currently the Beirut correspondent for the London Independent, Fisk has covered the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf war, and the conflict in Algeria. He is the author of Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (Atheneum, 1990), and his reporting from Lebanon has brought him international attention. He was the one who broke the story about the Israeli shelling of the U.N. compound in Qana, Lebanon, in 1996.
Fisk visited Madison, Wisconsin, in April to give two lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. He brought with him film footage of the Qana shelling, as well as footage of an Israel] bombing of a Lebanese ambulance carrying fourteen people. He showed a film he made about Palestinians who had lost their homes when Israel became a state. He also showed interviews with Jews who lost family members in Nazi concentration camps, and he went to Auschwitz to show where the Holocaust took place. In one of his lectures, he made a special point of taking on those who deny the truth of the Holocaust. I spoke with Fisk on my radio show, Second Opinion, and later when I drove him to the airport and as we waited for his plane. He was off to meet his wife, Lara Marlowe, in Paris, before heading back to Beirut. Q: How dangerous is it being a foreign correspondent in the Middle East? Robert Fisk: You do see people die, and you realize how easy it is to be killed. You go through the risk and the dange...See the full content of this document
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