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...Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza is a comic book like no other. It has no super-heroes, and not many laughs, but few would expect much levity in a story set in a territory under constant siege and bombardment by the Israelis. But Gaza's present plight simply forms the backdrop against which the book's main character, the cartoonist himself, wanders through 388 finely-crafted pages, dodging Israeli missiles and sniper fire as he tries to re-construct events surrounding two massacres of Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli soldiers...
...published works on Bosnia and the Palestinian territories, makes a convincing case that these two mass killings - "foot notes" which rated only a few sketchy lines in UN dispatches and press reports of the day - are key to understanding the despair and rage of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped inside Gaza today...
...muses that "They could file last month's story today - or last year's, for that matter - and who'd know the difference?" That's sadly true; a British colleague of mine once accidentally sent the wrong computer file to his editors in London, who dutifully ran his stale Gaza story without noticing that they'd run the same piece a week before. There is a numbing sameness to stories about Gaza, but Sacco's illustrations, backed by his methodical research, bring the Gaza of 1956 bleakly to life, using the past to explain the present in a way that...
...that the vast majority of Gazans are refugees driven out of their homes on Israel's coastal plain in the war of 1948, and barred from returning. And in one of the most startling observations in the book, he shows that Israeli leaders understood exactly why the Palestinians of Gaza would turn to violence. He quotes General Moshe Dayan, Israel's most celebrated military commander, at the April 1956 funeral of a kibbutznik slain by Palestinian fedayeen near the Gaza border, warning Israelis that they faced an intractable conflict that they had no choice but to fight...
...writing in response to a recent Crimson editorial regarding remarks made by Martin Kramer, Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (“Weatherheading the Storm,” The Crimson Staff, Feb. 24, 2010). Kramer advocated that aid to the population of Gaza be cut in order to curb birthrates and “crack the culture of martyrdom which demands a constant supply of superfluous young...