Fisk: We are Creating a "Hell Disaster"

Nov 24, 2007 16:09 Filed in: Nation/World
Robert Fisk, almost certainly the wisest and most knowledgeable correspondent on and in the Middle East, has written a deeply pessimistic report from darkened Beirut. Lebanon is on the verge of dissolution. People are scared; many are leaving. It is the quiet before the storm.

So what can a Middle East correspondent write on a Saturday morning except that the world in the Middle East is growing darker and darker by the hour. Pakistan. Afghanistan. Iraq. "Palestine". Lebanon. From the borders of Hindu Kush to the Mediterranean, we – we Westerners that is – are creating (as I have said before) a hell disaster. Next week, we are supposed to believe in peace in Annapolis, between the colourless American apparatchik and Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister who has no more interest in a Palestinian state than his predecessor Ariel Sharon.

I don't recall a more foreboding column from Fisk. It is clear that he believes we are about to reap, in Churchill's phrase, a "bitter harvest," all of it completely predictable.

Robert Fisk: Darkness falls on the Middle East

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