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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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Where We Go, Others Will Follow: Review of ‘Gaza: This Bleeding Land’ by John Wight

Review by Jim Aitken for Culture Matters

Jul 8

Where We Go, Others Will Follow: Review of ‘Gaza: This Bleeding Land’ by John Wight

Jul 8

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John Wight

Gaza — This Bleeding Land

Below is an excerpt from my novel — recently, published — which tells the story of this prolonged tragedy through the eyes of two rival…

May 28

Gaza — This Bleeding Land

May 28

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The real meaning and significance of October 7

“When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.”…

4d ago

The real meaning and significance of October 7

4d ago

John Wight

Gaza — This Bleeding Land

Below is an extract from my novel, Gaza — This Bleeding Land, which is currently available from Amazon in the US and UK and all good…

Oct 3

Gaza — This Bleeding Land

Oct 3

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Zionism is the Nazism of our time. History has played a sick joke

I am in blood — Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er. William Shakespeare

Oct 1

Zionism is the Nazism of our time. History has played a sick joke

Oct 1

John Wight

Zelensky Goes to Washington — This Time with a ‘Victory Plan’ in Hand

Though ‘Mr Zelensky Goes To Washington’ may not have the same ring to it as the title of the classic 1939 Frank Capra movie, ‘Mr Smith…

Sep 25

Zelensky Goes to Washington — This Time with a ‘Victory Plan’ in Hand

Sep 25

John Wight

My brush with P. Diddy — the very definition of a Hollywood tale

Tonight’s assignment as a suited and booted security guard with Pro Active Security in Hollywood was at an MTV Awards after party being…

Sep 20

My brush with P. Diddy — the very definition of a Hollywood tale

Sep 20

John Wight

Israel just hit Hezbollah hard. But too hard, even for them?

In an innovative and brutally successful mass casualty attack that would struggle to make the script for a Bond movie, Israel’s Mossad has…

Sep 19

Israel just hit Hezbollah hard. But too hard, even for them?

Sep 19

John Wight

Ten years on, a look back to when Scots went to the polls to vote on independence

I remember it all as if it was yesterday — the fierce debates, packed meetings, vibrant street rallies, and the sense that the world was…

Sep 17

Ten years on, a look back to when Scots went to the polls to vote on independence

Sep 17

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‘Ali Belts Zionism’ — the story of Muhammad Ali’s support for the Palestinians

As with the ‘Santa Clausification’ of Martin Luther King over the years, so the Santa Clausification of Muhammad Ali has served to elide…

Sep 4

‘Ali Belts Zionism’ — the story of Muhammad Ali’s support for the Palestinians

Sep 4

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