British writer Robert Fisk wrote on Friday that “when the world heard that Shimon Peres had died, it shouted “Peacemaker!” But when I heard that Peres was dead, I thought of blood and fire and slaughter.” “I saw the results: babies torn apart, shrieking refugees, smouldering bodies. It was a ...
Robert Fisk – The Independent Exactly 10 years ago, four United Nations peacekeepers were blown to pieces in southern Lebanon. They were a Canadian, a Chinese, a Finn and an Austrian. Amid the crash of Israeli shellfire around his tiny concrete blockhouse, and perhaps realizing that he may not survive, ...
