Pity the Nation

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With the Israeli Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading Robert Fisk s explosive Pity the Nation recounts Sharon and Arafat s first deadly encounter in Lebanon in the early 1980s and explains why the Israel Palestine relationship seems so intractable A remarkable combination of war reporting and analysis by an author who has witnessed the carnage of Beirut for twenty five years, Fisk, the first journalist to whom bin Laden announced his jihad against the U.S., is one of the world s most fearless and honored foreign correspondents He spares no one in this saga of the civil war and subsequent Israeli invasion the PLO, whose thuggish behavior alienated most Lebanese the various Lebanese factions, whose appalling brutality spared no one the Syrians, who supported first the Christians and then the Muslims in their attempt to control Lebanon and the Israelis, who tried to install their own puppets and, with their 1982 invasion, committed massive war crimes of their own It includes a moving finale that recounts the travails of Fisk s friend Terry Anderson who was kidnapped by Hezbollah and spent 2,454 days in captivity Fully updated to include the Israeli withdrawl from south Lebanon and Ariel Sharon s electoral victory over Ehud Barak, this edition has sixty pages of new material and a new preface Robert Fisk s enormous book about Lebanon s desperate travails is one of the most distinguished in recent times Edward Said Read Pity the Nation – kino-fada.fr I am a 19 year old Lebanese university student I was born in 1996, the year Israel massacred civilians in the village of Qana I carry Beirut with me on my passport wherever I go Lebanon is the country I was born and raised in, the country of my father and his ancestors Yet, like all my peers, I graduated high school with a profound ignorance of my country s modern history The events that tore Lebanon apart for decades ever since its independence in 1943 and the evacuation of the last french I am a 19... 850. 1984 1984 .198515 .. , 15 , , , 15 , , This book was an astonishing read It was assigned to me as research for a play I m assistant directing about the conflict in Lebanon and its effect on a family, but I found it to be eye opening in a way that fiction could never be Fisk s love for Lebanon as a country is as strong as his descriptions of the harrowing events surrounding war in Beirut and southern Lebanon He deftly pins down the history of Western intervention and its horrifying effects on the country, so even someone who know...8508502011 1 2010 2011 1 2010 897 649 234 2006 Wow If you re like me and didn t know the half about just how divided Lebanon and especially Beirut were during this time, this book is a real eye opener I knew about a few major points i.e the Sabra and Shatila Massacre, but I was otherwise not very knowledgeable about the war s and the level of international involvement The fact that Fisk was actually present to witness so many key moments in recent Middle East history that are now the stuff of legend almost makes it seem like fiction He Wow If you re like me and didn t know the half about just how divided Lebanon and especially Beirut were during this time, this book is a real eye opener I knew about a few major points i.e the Sabra and Shatila Massacre, but I was otherwise not very knowledgeable about the war s and the level of international involvement The fact that Fisk was actually present to witness so many key moments in recent Middle East history that are now the stuff of legend almost makes it seem like fiction He was there, however, and so was I as I gotandinto reading this book.The way the book is written just...

Pity the Nation
  • English
  • 22 August 2017
  • Paperback
  • 752 pages
  • 1560254424
  • Robert Fisk
  • Pity the Nation