This man is my cousin whom I have never met .His book "Age of the warrior " contains a chapter concerning my grandfather Edward Fisk and his time on the Cutty Sark.
Robert Fisk, one of the most educated people on the Mid-East..i love this guy & respect his view & words...he is very unbiased & speaks the truth even if it hurts! i read "Pity the nation" & will be getting his new book.
What an incredible journalist and writer Robert Frisk was. "War is a Racket," General Smedley Buter. War is inhumane for all living beings caught up in the powers of greed and power. 🙏❤️
What a great journalist. He's enlightened and infuriated me for 20 years in the Independent. I told him so as he signed his book for me when i saw him lecture in London
A real gem of a interview by Mr. Kreisler, who is a heralded historian in his own right. I've read Robert Fisk's work for many years. At 48:15 Mr. Kreisler asked about him about War.........."Is this just our fate of mankind?" Robert Fisk's book "Age of the Warrior" sums up very well the answer to this question, and aspects of this interview today allude to those who condone, contribute and even come to need war. At the 54:00 minute mark, Mr. Fisk himself speaks about feeling more at home when returning to the Beirut warzone, than having spent a Utopian holiday in Switzerland. As the philosopher George Santayana said, "Only the dead are safe; only the dead have seen the end of war"
I think that this was by far the best conversation with history that I have ever seen! Robert Fisk is truly an amazing man and has put me on the verge of tears! If only every person were so adamantly pacifist and understood the pain of war as he does!
this guy is one of the most objective worth respecting people i've ever heard about. I believe all reporters should be like him. especially lebanese reporters...
Robert Fisk, a true legend! One of the few journalists alive today who tells things as they are and doesn't care who he upsets in the process. We fail to recognise the importance of such people in the current climate.
I gotta admit, Harry Kreisler does conduct decent interviews no matter what you might think of his intellectual architecture when those characters surface in how questions are posed, reveal those characteristics etc - yet the "convos with history" segments are way better than any other tv-interview you see around.
If the US market media ever had the brains to pick up this guys reporting or so, Americans (As myself) would have a truly better education of the middle east. I read his book and it is truly what needs to be in history classes etc.
on the one hand, this gentleman is a brilliant advocate for the need to depict war realistically in the media, and, after 30 years on the front lines of Middle Eastern warzones it's impossible to question his commitment to doing so. On the other hand, if he's serious about the need to open the eyes of the public about the realities of war, with the goal of making it harder for western leaders to gain public support for their wars, then why not get a digital camera and an internet connection?
Robert Fisk is a Great Journalist and Commentator. This was excellent. It also touched upon a telling point: he says that he met men in Lebanon who took drink and drugs and then tortured and raped. Moreover, he says that they enjoyed it. He goes on to say that he later met these men after they had had children. This made me look up. How do they reconcile their actions with raising children? Perhaps they don't.....Wow.
@AnatolyaTurkiye If you actualy read the book you would realise that he talks about his experiences covering the middle east which he has been doing for over 30 years. He doesn't talk about the ancient history of the middle east rather the post ww2 era which he is most familiar with and which mainly involves the west. So based on what the book is about the title is totaly relevent.
@Rossyboy3000 Excellent point. I always despair of people of the older generation who refuse to modernise. They miss out on a brighter new world of instant knowledge and communication and yes, in Fisk's case, the empowerment to be able to inform people of the truth.
That CharlesDickens guy has been going around Fisk videos posting the same stuff. He's been at it for a few years now. I got messages off of him telling me all Fisk's work is wrong and he writes to please people like Bin Laden.
That is not what I meant. What I meant was that Fisk practices a deeply unbalanced type of journalism. He prints every piece of damaging information he can find on Israel. The Israeli politician Yair Lapid has said "Twelve million Muslims have been killed by other Muslims since 1948. The number of people killed during the Arab-Israeli conflict is 0.3 percent of this." You would hardly know this reading Robert Fisk. His sole attempt at balance is to return again and again to the subject of the Armenian genocide committed by The Ottoman Turks.
An informed observer would trace back the current problems in the Middle East as being in large part a reaction to the arrogant imperilaism of England which decided that it would promise Palestine to both the Arab majority who lived there and the international Jewish community who had bought only 6% of the land there. An informed observer would that English imperialism has held back countries such as Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa and India while spreading English by cultural imperialism.
@ali12147 Yep. Watch some of his other videos. He believes the whole "clash of civilizations" argument is bullshit and he is also highly critical of all actors. The way it should be.
No journalists left? I wouldn't agree with that. If you only read the Mail or the Express then it's no surprise, but the Guardian and Independent possess many fine journalists, and the BBC clearly boasts better television and radio (particularly radio) journalism than any commercial US network.
An informed observer would know that the Anglo-Saxons are indigenous to only one country in the world: England. Virtually every country that the English invaded had a stupendous drop in the population of its native people. Consider the America where hundreds of thousands of Natives were killed and their culture destroyed, Australia, which has gone the same way, Ireland, where the English imposed their religion and their language and stole the natives' land by force of arms.
Fisk is a great journalist, but I wish he would not be so intensive in friendly interviews like this one. Why does he have to cut off and interrupt the interviewer so much, or call out the interviewer as doing a "snobby academic thing" as he does at 10:00? It really adds nothing to the interview, but rather mess up the flow.
Surely you jest. Did you download it? I think you could play the theme of this show through loudspeakers, and that alone would keep the Palestinians away from Israeli borders. Forget about that wall! :)
@kelticuss1 No. Fisk is not comparable to Fox news at all, he references and bears witness to everything he reports, he doesn't just flail an agenda around bolstering it with hyperbole and catchphrases. Credibility.
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Fascinating. We miss Fisker immensely everyday, and today more than ever
We do. There are a decent few who walk in his steps.
This man is my cousin whom I have never met .His book "Age of the warrior " contains a chapter concerning my grandfather Edward Fisk and his time on the Cutty Sark.
Rewatching it with a heavy heart. He was a true moral compass. The world feels like a darker place without him. Rest in peace.
it is sad to not see him, he was a man of honor
Recently I bought one of his books, it was used, it turned out to be signed by him! I was so happy to have found that gem!
@@fenderguitargirl wow you got so lucky I’m jealous. Which one?
Just bought his book The Great War for Civilization. Excellent read.
I would love to hear his take on the war in Gaza right now. He is truly missed.
Robert Fisk, one of the most educated people on the Mid-East..i love this guy & respect his view & words...he is very unbiased & speaks the truth even if it hurts! i read "Pity the nation" & will be getting his new book.
What an incredible journalist and writer Robert Frisk was.
"War is a Racket," General Smedley Buter.
War is inhumane for all living beings caught up in the powers of greed and power.
🙏❤️
What a great journalist. He's enlightened and infuriated me for 20 years in the Independent. I told him so as he signed his book for me when i saw him lecture in London
+Alastair Hunter What did he reply?
He looked slightly askance... then just said 'Good!' and that was it.
Why infuriated?
Wow wow. What a journalist. You are listening A real journalist
He was a great man, and this was a great interview.
You have to have a special mind to preserve your composure and inform in such clear way what this man has witnessed, I admired him a lot.
He’s also very witty & funny 😊
Fisk and Chris Hedges are very unique war correspondents, they both speak the truth which is quite rare for journalists.
A real gem of a interview by Mr. Kreisler, who is a heralded historian in his own right. I've read Robert Fisk's work for many years. At 48:15 Mr. Kreisler asked about him about War.........."Is this just our fate of mankind?" Robert Fisk's book "Age of the Warrior" sums up very well the answer to this question, and aspects of this interview today allude to those who condone, contribute and even come to need war. At the 54:00 minute mark, Mr. Fisk himself speaks about feeling more at home when returning to the Beirut warzone, than having spent a Utopian holiday in Switzerland.
As the philosopher George Santayana said, "Only the dead are safe; only the dead have seen the end of war"
thank you sir for what you did for humanity .
Learned a lot listening to this. Thank you for a terrific conversation. 😊
Fascinating, brilliant, amazing & a very human great Robert Fisk...
Robert Fisk is the man- he proves that some journalists have dignity- respect.
I think that this was by far the best conversation with history that I have ever seen! Robert Fisk is truly an amazing man and has put me on the verge of tears! If only every person were so adamantly pacifist and understood the pain of war as he does!
"The Great War for Civilization" was amazing. I can't think of a more penetrating work on the Middle East.
Great series. I listen to an interview every morning. So wonderful to listen to bright people. I agree they really need to change the theme tune.
"The Great War for Civilisation" is an outstanding piece of writing.
True that, I have read it 3 times
Planning to purchase at some point,
very pleased to have connected
with this particular broadcast,
it really is Fisk at his best!
Just bought it. So glad I bought it. I did my research and it paid off. It is a treasure.
this guy is one of the most objective worth respecting people i've ever heard about. I believe all reporters should be like him. especially lebanese reporters...
he might have the most admirable moral character of any living person.
I miss you Robert. Rest in peace.
Robert Fisk, a true legend!
One of the few journalists alive today who tells things as they are and doesn't care who he upsets in the process. We fail to recognise the importance of such people in the current climate.
Fisk is a miracle ... the best of all time.
I gotta admit, Harry Kreisler does conduct decent interviews no matter what you might think of his intellectual architecture when those characters surface in how questions are posed, reveal those characteristics etc - yet the "convos with history" segments are way better than any other tv-interview you see around.
@ali12147 Not only Fisk and Chris Hedges, John Pilger is also a very truthful journalist.
Whoa. This guy. Brilliant.
A man of absolute integrity.
I like and respect this guy and his blessed responsible journalism
If the US market media ever had the brains to pick up this guys reporting or so, Americans (As myself) would have a truly better education of the middle east. I read his book and it is truly what needs to be in history classes etc.
on the one hand, this gentleman is a brilliant advocate for the need to depict war realistically in the media, and, after 30 years on the front lines of Middle Eastern warzones it's impossible to question his commitment to doing so. On the other hand, if he's serious about the need to open the eyes of the public about the realities of war, with the goal of making it harder for western leaders to gain public support for their wars, then why not get a digital camera and an internet connection?
Watching this interview has made me order as many of the books that he mentions as possible, including Fisks stuff!
This guy is freaking awesome. Cant wait to read his book
Rest in Peace Mr Fisk. You will be greatly missed
I'll second that! He is brilliant and an excellent writer.
A great man who made a difference.
"We've all committed crimes against humanity, not just al quaeda" - this is a great man.
Rest In Peace Robert Fisk. If anyone deserves it... 11/1/20
Fisk is such a passionate and courageous man...
Robert Fisk, an honest journalist!
"Believe me they are all bastards, there are no good guys in war." Robert Fisk
Rest in peace to one of the most principled and morally upright individuals to walk this planet in recent centuries.
Robert, for your life the lives of others will hopefully be indebted.
What is the theme music to this 'Conversations with History' series?
yay there are still awesome folks available DESPITE all efforts
Robert Fisk is a Great Journalist and Commentator. This was excellent. It also touched upon a telling point: he says that he met men in Lebanon who took drink and drugs and then tortured and raped. Moreover, he says that they enjoyed it. He goes on to say that he later met these men after they had had children. This made me look up. How do they reconcile their actions with raising children? Perhaps they don't.....Wow.
The Great Robert Fisk!!!
@AnatolyaTurkiye
If you actualy read the book you would realise that he talks about his experiences covering the middle east which he has been doing for over 30 years. He doesn't talk about the ancient history of the middle east rather the post ww2 era which he is most familiar with and which mainly involves the west. So based on what the book is about the title is totaly relevent.
Watch the "one on one" with Riz Khan for him speaking about that. He said his religion is journalism. Nice line.
What a true human being... RIP
Did Fisk predict 7/7 just months before it happened here? The man's uncanny and brilliant; I've enormous respect for him.
Yes! And he predicted the night and day genocide of the peoples of Palestine
Truly a badass, fiercely intelligent, genuinely visionary. RIP
@AnatolyaTurkiye
i think its sarcasm, he doesn't realy view these wars as 'great'. he is one of the biggest critics of the western foreign policy.
great stuff...
Very powerful stuff.
great writer very readable
Could you please expound on that? I'm curious as to what you've seen that leads you to that conclusion.
A proper journalist i agree!
@Rossyboy3000 Excellent point. I always despair of people of the older generation who refuse to modernise. They miss out on a brighter new world of instant knowledge and communication and yes, in Fisk's case, the empowerment to be able to inform people of the truth.
Fisk did this essentially to prevent spying by NSA and Mossad
It's a standard Open University-style sound from the 70s
Aquarella kids
What is the french publication he mentioned?
Libération, Le Figaro, Le Monde.
Hitchens was more like a Bush apologist with these bloody adventures in the middle east.
That CharlesDickens guy has been going around Fisk videos posting the same stuff. He's been at it for a few years now. I got messages off of him telling me all Fisk's work is wrong and he writes to please people like Bin Laden.
That is not what I meant. What I meant was that Fisk practices a deeply unbalanced type of journalism. He prints every piece of damaging information he can find on Israel. The Israeli politician Yair Lapid has said "Twelve million Muslims have been killed by other Muslims since 1948. The number of people killed during the Arab-Israeli conflict is 0.3 percent of this." You would hardly know this reading Robert Fisk. His sole attempt at balance is to return again and again to the subject of the Armenian genocide committed by The Ottoman Turks.
I had dinner with him in 2006 when I was in Beirut he's a great guy. He hates talking about politics. XD
i love how they cut each other in conversation! :D
An informed observer would trace back the current problems in the Middle East as being in large part a reaction to the arrogant imperilaism of England which decided that it would promise Palestine to both the Arab majority who lived there and the international Jewish community who had bought only 6% of the land there. An informed observer would that English imperialism has held back countries such as Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa and India while spreading English by cultural imperialism.
Robert Frisk was a burning spear
🔥 🗡🔥
ha ha... At 10:03, he got Harry and it dragged on for a minute. Such an awesome fellow Mr. Fisk.
robert fisk ia a great man!!
RIP robert terrible to lose a vioce of sanity in a time when the world seems to be going mad
This guy's awesome
What I would give for Fisk to write a book that dissects the arguments of the 9-11 Commission Report.
@ali12147 Yep. Watch some of his other videos. He believes the whole "clash of civilizations" argument is bullshit and he is also highly critical of all actors. The way it should be.
I loved Fisk - he always pissed off the Israel-lovers and the Neo Conservatives and left them red-faced, stuttering, stammering and raging impotently.
RIP Robert Fisk
true words.
Is the role of the journalist to challenge power as Fisk asserts or is it to try to tell the truth as best a human can relate to other humans?
It is interesting how Harry Kriesler focuses on how Fisk writes but never what Fisk writes.
lol @ the old school educational intro and closing music
What a legend
RIP
interesting.
Agreed.
rest in peace the world will miss you
i hate the theme tune but love these programs
No journalists left? I wouldn't agree with that. If you only read the Mail or the Express then it's no surprise, but the Guardian and Independent possess many fine journalists, and the BBC clearly boasts better television and radio (particularly radio) journalism than any commercial US network.
An informed observer would know that the Anglo-Saxons are indigenous to only one country in the world: England. Virtually every country that the English invaded had a stupendous drop in the population of its native people. Consider the America where hundreds of thousands of Natives were killed and their culture destroyed, Australia, which has gone the same way, Ireland, where the English imposed their religion and their language and stole the natives' land by force of arms.
Fisk is a great journalist, but I wish he would not be so intensive in friendly interviews like this one. Why does he have to cut off and interrupt the interviewer so much, or call out the interviewer as doing a "snobby academic thing" as he does at 10:00? It really adds nothing to the interview, but rather mess up the flow.
19:30
20:32
Surely you jest. Did you download it?
I think you could play the theme of this show through loudspeakers, and that alone would keep the Palestinians away from Israeli borders. Forget about that wall! :)
27:30 hahaha!! very interesting interview!
@kelticuss1 No. Fisk is not comparable to Fox news at all, he references and bears witness to everything he reports, he doesn't just flail an agenda around bolstering it with hyperbole and catchphrases. Credibility.
@imas4j Why would he?
We'll not see his like again.
There is only a [superficial] stop-off after second term; that's more worrying to me.
Dat music.
The ultimate reporter would be Fisk's foxhole perspective with Hitchens' towering intellect.
@ 27:05 just listen for a minutes or so ... this isn't fair