Robert Fisk

So George Bush Jnr is now an expert on the League of Nations, is he? Across America, he's been telling the folks that the United Nations is in danger of becoming no more than the old pre-Second World War organisation.

It's the same old trap. Nato used exactly the same trick to ensure that it could have a war with Slobodan Milosevic.

In the bloody violence of the Israeli-Palestinian war, the most tragic victims are the very young, now considered 'fair game'

If the Americans were playing Santa to children on the streets of Baghdad yesterday, they were playing ""Operation Iron Hammer"" much more seriously.

Saddam Hussein's own cynicism - for he could have given UN inspectors free rein years ago - will be matched by Mr Bush's

Years ago, in a snug underground restaurant in downtown Tehran, drinking duq – an Iranian beverage of mint and yoghurt – Saddam Hussein's former head of nuclear research told me what happened when he made a personal appeal for the release of a friend from prison.

How small he looked in the high-backed chair. You had to sit in the auditorium of the UN General Assembly yesterday to realise that George Bush Jnr – threatening war in what was built as a house of peace – could appear such a little man.

A reporter's job does not include joining the prosecution. We are witnesses and we name, if we can, the bad guys

They are setting up the Arab world. We are being prepared for an epic supported by Hollywood and a plot of lies

Gul Afgha knows how to handle the United Nations. He smiles, he praises, he loves the UN, and he is immensely grateful for the advice of Under Secretary General and Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, the diminutive Ugandan Olara Utunnu.

It's the accent that does it. Middle-English, upper middle- class, a touch of Oxford and Sandhurst, both of which he attended. If only, some Jordanians say, their king spoke Arabic as well as he does English.

Our betrayals and broken promises have created a kind of irreversible disease that cannot be forgiven

I wonder why Bush doesn't let Sharon run his press office

A vacillating President and lack of a credible plan is fuelling hatred in the Middle East

Washington wants the loya jirga to succeed.

ABD'nin Ortadoğu politikalarının korkusuz bir eleştiricisi olan Fisk, 11 Eylül'ün ardından Amerika'nın Orta Batı eyaletlerine yaptığı ilk ziyarette düşmanca karşılanacağını düşünmüştü. Elbette ne denli yanılacağını tahmin edemezdi...

The middle-aged Palestinian sat in his grubby office, a little more paunchy since the days 20 years ago when Beirut was surrounded by Ariel Sharon's army, but as scornful as ever of Yasser Arafat.

Middle East: Ariel Sharon's experience of invading the Strip 20 years ago will inform Israel's attack - and the Palestinian resistanceBy Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent

Israel's so-called Book of Terror – designed to prove that Yasser Arafat is a master of terror involved in suicide attacks on Israel – is riddled with errors, omissions and deliberate misinformation.

Ariel Sharon's "peace" plan presented to President Bush in Washington last night – get rid of Arafat, devise a more obedient Palestinian Authority and keep building settlements for Jews and Jews only on Palestinian land – is fantasy.

Amid the bloodiest Israeli military operation in the occupied territories since the 1967 war, Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister, arrived in Washington yesterday, basking in President George Bush's description of him as a "man of peace" and determined to persuade the Americans to abandon Yasser Arafat

Gaza braces for Sharon to send in tanks in next phase of war

As an outspoken critic of US policy in the Middle East, Fisk expected a hostile reception when he paid his first visit to the American Midwest since 11 September. He couldn't have been more mistaken

The credibility of US policy on the conflict has been shattered

So what's the surprise? Suddenly Israel doesn't want to take our advice. Ex-general Ariel Sharon prefers to go on wrecking the Palestinian Authority, tearing up the Oslo agreement in the name of his Holy War on terror.

If this is a war on terror, Jesus wasn't born in Bethlehem. The first to die was an 80-year-old Palestinian man, whose body never made it to the morgue. Then a woman and her son were critically wounded by Israeli gunfire.

Independent gazetesinin muhabiri Fisk, Afgan mülteciler tarafından dövülmesinin medyada yanlış aktarılmasını önlemek amacıyla, başından geçenleri tüm ayrıntılarıyla bizzat kaleme aldı.

'Everything we have believed in since the Second World War goes by the board as we pursue our own exclusive war'

"You'll never get through,'' the Taliban man shouted at me. "The Northern Alliance are shooting into Takhta-Pul and the Americans are bombing the centre of the town.''

"Smoking them out of their holes"? "Wanted dead or alive"? President Bush says that he wants justice, but the United States seems close to sanctioning hit squads and liquidation.