Bob, the bane of Bahrain

If silence is golden then Bahrain would have been basking in fortune if it were not for the scandalous commentaries of Robert Fisk. In a May 14 piece for The Independent, the award-winning British journalist shamed both politicians and media for not speaking out against the violence employed by Bahrain’s ruling al-Khalifa family to suppress the protest movement and its calls for political reform, led by the kingdom’s Shia majority lead. Fisk was at it again on June 14, provokingly asking “if the Khalifa family has gone mad” by prosecuting 48 surgeons, doctors, nurses and paramedics for a series of crimes varying from concealing weapons to refusing to assist people in need. The latter is of especially bitter irony, as there are numerous accounts of how Bahrain’s medical personnel worked tirelessly to treat the hundreds of casualties, most of whom had been shot. Aided by Saudi troops and tanks, the