Syria and Israel: All the Same For Fisk
February 7, 2012 11:22 by Simon Plosker
Robert Fisk
In his latest commentary in The Independent, Robert Fisk is keen to lecture the West that not all Middle East revolutions or uprisings are the same:
The old saw has to be repeated and repeated: Egypt was not Tunisia; Bahrain was not Egypt; Yemen was not Bahrain; Libya was not Yemen. And Syria is very definitely not Libya.
But when it comes to Israel, Fisk is morally blinded to the difference between the brutal actions of Mideast regimes such as Syria, massacring its own civilians with lethal intent, and Israel, targeting terrorists and making every effort to avoid civilian casualties.
It’s not difficult to see how the opposite plays in the West. The barrage of horrifying Facebook images from Homs, and statements from the “Free Syrian Army”, and the huffing of La Clinton and the amazement that Russia can be so blind to the suffering of Syrians – as if America was anything but blind to the suffering of Palestinians when, say, more than 1,300 were killed in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza – doesn’t gel with reality on the ground.
So far, the immoral equivalence between Syrian brutality and Israeli self-defense hasn’t manifested itself in the media. That Robert Fisk should be one of the first to promote it, even in a throwaway comment, shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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heny tobias
5:38 pm
Feb 09, 2012
Nothing that Robert Fisk writes surprises me. One day he will write that the moon is made of green cheese and the Independent won’t be ashamed to print his drivel even then
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Silas Jacob
6:47 pm
Feb 09, 2012
Here he is again blabbering about Israelis killing 1300 people in Gaza nothing about the continual killing of Israelis prior to that war and moreover a further 1000+ killed within last year. Perhaps he conveniently cannot read about it. How are your Arab family keeping hope they are in good health.
Mr Fisk you and I have clashed when five Britons were kidnapped and kept for years and the world pleaded with Israel to release 1500 terrorists so that these kidnapped would be released perhaps it is a lapse of your memory.
I hope you visited even one Arab school and heard what they teach their kids if you quest for the truth.
While all what is happening we Israelis pray for the welfare of all peoples of the world including all ARABS.
I leave you with one thought SYRIA today soon to become a satalite of Russia.
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Pastor Ortiz
4:51 am
Feb 10, 2012
Silas, please continue to clash with Mr. Fisk. You are correct about Syria becoming a satalite of Russia, and I may add like Iran. It is in the BIBLE: Ezekiel 38:1-6 Read it, please…..please!
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Gábor Fränkl
11:32 pm
Feb 21, 2012
A long-descredited antisemitic fascist vermin imo. That’s Fisk.
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