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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, 2024

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

Jul 8, 2024

Historically and ideologically, Moscow not Kiev represents the f

Over generations Ukraine’s rich dark soil and vast steppe has provided Europe with the grain required to feed its burgeoning peoples, with…

5d ago

Historically and ideologically, Moscow not Kiev represents the f

5d ago

Hamas is courage and courage is Hamas

No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the megaton bomb. Theodor…

Apr 13

Hamas is courage and courage is Hamas

Apr 13

Gaza is our Warsaw Ghetto

In January 1943 Jewish inmates of the Warsaw Ghetto mounted one of the most heroic and courageous acts of resistance ever recorded.

Apr 9

Gaza is our Warsaw Ghetto

Apr 9

Armed intervention is now required stop Israel

The recent atrocity committed by the Einsatzgruppen of our time — the Israel Defense Forces — involved the studied and brutal execution of…

Apr 7

Armed intervention is now required stop Israel

Apr 7

We need to imagine a world without Israel

States come and states disappear in a never ending cycle that has marked human history since the modern nation-state came into being with…

Apr 2

We need to imagine a world without Israel

Apr 2

If Sitting Bull was alive today, he would be a leading member of Hamas

‘If we must die, we die defending our right.’ Sitting Bull

Mar 29

If Sitting Bull was alive today, he would be a leading member of Hamas

Mar 29

Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal — two giants of American letters sorely missed

One of the most bitter public feuds in the history of American letters raged between Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal from the early 1970s all…

Mar 25

Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal — two giants of American letters sorely missed

Mar 25

Israel is an ethno-fascist beast loosed upon the world

Throughout history there have been moments in which certain states have refuted the notion than human affairs follow a pattern of…

Mar 20

Israel is an ethno-fascist beast loosed upon the world

Mar 20

Now that Ukraine has lost the war, it is time for the revolution

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions…

Mar 10

Now that Ukraine has lost the war, it is time for the revolution

Mar 10

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