I don't know about you, but I am feeling nostalgic about the years when there was some rich fisking material in the works of Fisk. When one could sink one's teeth into some juicy fact-shuffling, ignorance or the usual passion for things un-Western (or, rather, anti-Western).
I realize that it is over for a long time since that infamous beating. Whether it caused some neurons in that brain to go boing (or whatever the neurons do when knocked about) or the impact was more of psychological nature, I wouldn't presume to guess. Still, one could only hope, even in vain, for the return of the good old Fisk.
So I confess freely to taking a shufti at the pages of Indy now and then to see whether there is some fisking to do on Fisk. Shame, I know, but old habits and all that. And of course, one couldn't really fisk something like this:
Robert Fisk's World: A region boiling with tales of kings, gangs and war
So, according to the anonymous editor of Indy's online pages, there is already a whole world belonging to Fisk. It makes sense, actually, since the man has been cooking on another planet for quite a long time, and obviously by now it's a fully populated world.
What is encouraging, however, that the Master is again sticking the word "Israel" into his texts. In this one it appears four times, even when the article is not about Israel as such - OK, here I am being wrong - in that world of Fisk Israel is over every table and under every bed, so there...
Let us dispose of the mentions of Israel first:
I don't see any special need to comment on the above, aside of that last one: I was quite sure that this wouldn't happen till I read it. The man is a walking reverse prophet. Take his prophecy and bet all your money on the opposite - you can't go wrong.
Well, so what is the article about after all? Here is my attempt to gather some points:
This is it, more or less. Reach your own conclusions from the above. The man is not known for any outstanding acts of gratuitous violence, rather the opposite - he is always ready to be beaten, as long as the beating is administered by some anti-American element, if possible of agricultural persuasion. So there is no urgent need to see him off to a funny farm.
But no, nothing to fisk here... move on, people...
Cross-posted on Yourish.com.
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