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>Robert Fisk: Please spare me the word ’terrorist’

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Video: Hezbollah-leider Nasrallah over de achtergrond van het Libanese massaprotest tegen de VS-gesteunde regering Siniora

In de context van de Israëlische oorlog tegen Libanon, afgelopen zomer, en de huidige dreiging van een oorlog tegen Iran, een vlijmscherpe observatie door Robert Fisk:

So it was back to terror, terror, terror this week. The “terrorist” Hizbollah was trying to destroy the “democratically elected government” of Fouad Siniora in Lebanon. The “terrorist” Hamas government cannot rule Palestine. Iranian “terrorists” in Iraq are going to be gunned down by US troops.

My favourite line of the week came from the “security source” – just how one becomes a “security source” remains a mystery to me — who announced: “Terrorists are always looking for new ways to strike terror… There is no end of the possibilities where terrorists can try to cause terror to the public.” Well, you could have fooled me.

Lebanon is as good a place as any to find out what a load of old tosh the “terror” merchants talk. For here it is that the hydra-headed monster of Iran is supposedly stalking the streets of Beirut, staging a coup against Mr Siniora and his ministers. Lees verder op Independent Online