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It was a mass of intellectual and physical vitality put together, as if it did not know the meaning of rest, nor the taste for sleep. He speaks with an “electric” speed, which sometimes makes it difficult for his interlocutors to follow the flow of his thoughts and the sequence of his logic. You are very interested in keeping your friends, as you can be absent from them for long periods and then surprise them with your presence to complete what you were talking about, as if you were absent only a few hours. He had something from his childhood in his enthusiasm for storytelling and his sense of humor, and he was very agile either in his questions or in his answers, as if he were a child genius in some of his stages.
But he was also an ideal listener, faithfully conveying what he was told.
He was a man of extreme courage, going to the forefront of wars to convey the scene as he saw it. In Afghanistan, he was beaten to the brink of death and contracted a skin disease that left marks on his face for years. Were many of your Western colleagues exposed to what they were exposed to? Yes, he was proud, but not bragging about the journalism careers he won, and most of them, but I never heard him proud of the many prestigious journalism awards he had won in Europe.
His journalistic style is based primarily on the lives of ordinary people, especially in times of crisis and war. Here, he expresses his deep sympathy for the “people tortured on earth” who insisted on mentioning their names and identities to give them the human presence they deserve, as the right-wing press in the West often referred to them only as numbers.
Second, his style is based on his extensive knowledge of modern Arab history. But he was always willing to increase his historical knowledge, as he never claimed to be an “expert” on this story. His modesty about it was in stark contrast to the arrogance of other Western journalists, especially Americans.
He was in awe of what he saw in Palestine, what he wrote about it with unmatched boldness and sincerity, and that brought him hostility towards Israel and Zionists around the world, but he didn’t care and he didn’t give in. He could have done what many of his peers did, that is, turn a blind eye or repeat the usual Zionist sayings despite his knowledge of the truth, to avoid the wrath of the Zionists who tirelessly destroy the professions of those who do not repeat. their propaganda. With his courage and attachment to his journalistic duty, Fisk broke that barrier of fear and ignored the hundreds of threats that came to him as a result of his journalistic investigations in Palestine.
He was not to the liking of all Arabs, since his writings sometimes provoked the ire of opponents of a regime or a leader, about whom Fisk wrote what he had written. Maybe you had no luck with some of your friends and you had no luck praising some of those who did not deserve to be praised. This is a test of your independence and not submission to pressure. He who has no sin, let him throw a stone, but also let him throw a lot of anemones from the fields of Palestine.
* Palestinian academic
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