today’s ” AR-online” again AR-Online recent issues: May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 ISRAEL ADOPTS NATO’S BOMB DOCTRINE The author is not stated but is clearly Robert Fisk , whose name has all but vanished from the pages of The Independent after his courageous reporting on the results of the Allied conflict in the Balkans.
OVER THE broken Awali river bridge staggered a young man with a tray bearing a massive strawberry and meringue cake. “Happy Birthday to Fatima Begun” the icing announced. And then another cake. And another. Each cake was three feet by two feet. Same birthday, same lady. “It was made in Zrarieh and we’re taking it to Beirut,” the young man said. I hoped Fatima Begun wasn’t going to eat it all herself. But the Israeli air raids weren’t going to diminish this lady’s birthday. […]
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