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Gaza - This Bleeding Land

Gaza - This Bleeding Land

In the hours prior to Israel's ground invasion of Gaza in 2014, two rival combatants contemplate life and fate.

2024

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Pinned

John Wight

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Jul 8, 2024

‘Gaza: This Bleeding Land’ by John Wight — Book review

Book review by Jim Aitken for Culture Matters

‘Gaza: This Bleeding Land’ by John Wight — Book review

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The 2026 World Cup confirms that football is still the people’s game

At the outset we had incidences of pristine racism, involving for example Somali FIFA-appointed referee Omar Artan being denied entry to…

The 2026 World Cup confirms that football is still the people’s game

John Wight

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Jun 9

‘A Fine Madness — Tales of a Scotsman in Hollywood’

Around this time I also worked on the Al Pacino movie Simone. It was a two day booking on a cattle call, which meant hundreds of extras and…

‘A Fine Madness — Tales of a Scotsman in Hollywood’

John Wight

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Jun 4

Celtic Football Club, Robbie Keane, and why Palestine matters

The conventional wisdom that politics should be kept out of sport, that sport and politics do not mix, is a myth. It is a myth propagated…

Celtic Football Club, Robbie Keane, and why Palestine matters

John Wight

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Jun 4

Yugoslavia was our Carthage. Its destruction should never be forgiven

November 1991 is a month and a year that should forever live in infamy when it comes to one of the most grievous crimes committed under the…

Yugoslavia was our Carthage. Its destruction should never be forgiven

John Wight

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Jun 2

Who will be the last soldier to die in Ukraine?

Henry Nicholas George Gunther is a not a name that will stir the memory pot of many if anybody today, but it should. This is because…

Who will be the last soldier to die in Ukraine?

John Wight

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May 27

Zionism is the Nazism of our time — reply to a critic

Paulo Calvi:

Zionism is the Nazism of our time — reply to a critic

John Wight

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May 25

Zionism is the Nazism of our time

Judaism is not a race it is a religion. However the long history of European antisemitism, culminating in the Nazi Holocaust, forged its…

Zionism is the Nazism of our time

John Wight

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May 11

Moscow not Washington defeated Hitler in WWII. Never forget it

We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it. Marshal Zhukov

Moscow not Washington defeated Hitler in WWII. Never forget it

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An Injustice!

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Apr 24

The Irish Easter Rising of 1916. When a terrible beauty was born

MacDonagh and MacBride

The Irish Easter Rising of 1916. When a terrible beauty was born

John Wight

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