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The artistic quality of this book is absolutely spot on: it's detailed and the characters are recognisable from one frame to the next, with their emotions clearly discernible from the expression.
The content is important too. He's diving into a situation that isn't often explored at a human level. The effects of the occupation in the inhabitants of the territory often get submerged beneath layers of politics and historical revisionism.
It's outdated if course. The occupation ended a long time ago, and many of the factions don't really exist any more in Gaza, which has become dominated by it's most extreme variant, the Iranian proxy, Hamas, who have been incentivised to basically throw the entire civilian population into the grinder, for reasons having everythung to do with geopolitics, and they never seem to get criticised for that, or for the orgy of rape and murder with which they reopened hostilities.
But that's all in the future for Sacco, and he can't be blamed for not leveling more criticism at the Palestinians' own political leadership. At the time, things seemed to be moving towards peace and the two state solution at least seemed like a possibility some people could believe in. With that in mind, he seems to be putting the question to Israel: how are you ever going to have peace if you are constantly putting the civilian population through this suffering and indignity?
It's an important question, and he's framed it in a really powerful way here.
The content is important too. He's diving into a situation that isn't often explored at a human level. The effects of the occupation in the inhabitants of the territory often get submerged beneath layers of politics and historical revisionism.
It's outdated if course. The occupation ended a long time ago, and many of the factions don't really exist any more in Gaza, which has become dominated by it's most extreme variant, the Iranian proxy, Hamas, who have been incentivised to basically throw the entire civilian population into the grinder, for reasons having everythung to do with geopolitics, and they never seem to get criticised for that, or for the orgy of rape and murder with which they reopened hostilities.
But that's all in the future for Sacco, and he can't be blamed for not leveling more criticism at the Palestinians' own political leadership. At the time, things seemed to be moving towards peace and the two state solution at least seemed like a possibility some people could believe in. With that in mind, he seems to be putting the question to Israel: how are you ever going to have peace if you are constantly putting the civilian population through this suffering and indignity?
It's an important question, and he's framed it in a really powerful way here.