Bill Durodie notes that " recently published compilation of Osama bin Laden ’s writings reveals how frequently he is inclined to cite Western writers , Western diplomats and Western thinkers . At one point he even advises the White House to read Robert Fisk , rather than , as one might have supposed , the Koran . " Fisk has described himself as a pacifist and has never voted . He has said that journalism must " challenge authority , all authority , especially so when governments and politicians take us to war . " He has quoted with approval Israeli journalist Amira Hass : " There is a misconception that journalists can be objective ... What journalism is really about is to monitor power and the centres of power . " He spoke on " Lies , Misreporting , and Catastrophe in the Middle East " at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley on 22 September 2010 , and stated , " I think it is the duty of a foreign correspondent to be neutral and unbiased on the side of those who suffer , whoever they may be . " He has written at length on how much contemporary conflicts have their origins , in his view , in lines drawn on maps : " After the allied victory of 1918 , at the end of my father 's war , the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies . In the space of just seventeen months , they created the borders of Northern Ireland , Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East . And I have spent my entire career — in Belfast and Sarajevo , in Beirut and Baghdad — watching the people within those borders burn . " Fisk has also written extensively about the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and has supported moves to persuade the Turkish Government to acknowledge the truth of what happened in it
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