Friday,
December 15, 2000
Wednesday,
December 13, 2000
JOURNALIST (The Independent) Robert Fisk, for whose courage I have high regard, has come under increasing Jewish and Israeli attack worldwide for his fearless reporting of atrocities from the Middle East. I think he stands a good chance of being assassinated in some quiet way.
To protect himself, he has today published an article in his newspaper’s argument section (I download it from the Internet after somebody draws my attention to it) setting out the whole case, and reading in part:
Israeli ambassadors and
Israel’s lobbyists have never been such
frequent visitors to European newspaper
offices, to complain about reports or
reporters, sometimes in a quite
disgraceful manner. The Johannesburg
Star – a sister paper of The
Independent which carries my own Middle
East reports – was confronted by one
pro-Israeli group this year which
claimed that I was in some way
assisting the right-wing historian
David Irving – someone I have never met
and never wish to meet.They
subsequently withdrew their allegation.
He hopes to salve his own neck by taking a swipe at me — “getting out of a hole by trampling on someone else’s face,” as I call that technique. He lowers himself in my esteem for that reason.
Flailing at likeminded strangers is not a method of self-protection that I would choose, even when under pressure. I have read many of his articles, which is why I admire him; pari passu, I doubt that he has read many, if indeed any, of my books.
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Mr
Irving has never met or communicated with
Robert Fisk. Website suggestion: A new
masthead for the newspaper
concerned: