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We have been conned again. The Israeli elections, we are told, mean that the dream of "Greater Israel" has finally been abandoned...But it is a lie.

— Robert Fisk

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And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.

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Now let's be fair. College staff have every right to take their own protection against America's notoriously inaccurate "smart" bombs.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

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Yesterday, with an inevitability born of the utterly false promise that the bloodbath in Iraq is yielding dividends, we were supposed to believe that the death of Zarqawi was a famous victory.

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