Summary
British journalist in Beirut at the time of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, whose account in Perceptions of Palestine demonstrates the mind-set the terrorist stereotype produces: Israeli soldiers patrolling Shatila, where everyone in the area Fisk describes was dead, were possessed of absolute certainty that “terrorists” were in the camp, and Fisk’s Associated Press colleagues argued over whether what had happened should be called a massacre at all (Perceptions of Palestine, lines 2192-2219).
Details
- Fisk observes, as quoted, the word terrorist “had become a murderous word, a word that had helped to bring about this atrocity” (Perceptions of Palestine, lines 2220-2221).
Related pages
Sabra and Shatila massacre, George Shultz, Frame of reference