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A review by florapants84
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden
3.0
"In Israel, every person is a soldier, it's true. But every soldier is a person. And maybe we make mistakes. And maybe we do things you don't like, but we love this country. It has problems, yes, but we want to solve them."–Tour Guide at Independence Hall, Tel Aviv
This was an interesting travelogue and graphic memoir. Israel is a subject that has always baffled me. I just don't get it all. There are so many components to why it is in the state that it's in today. Glidden decides to take a "Birthright Israel" tour of Israel to learn about her roots and where she stands on the Israeli-Palestinian issue. She's determined not to come home a convert to Zionism, and throughout this book we are subjected to her inner struggle to accept that each side of the conflict has its points. It's not black and white. This very thing grated on my nerves eventually. This is a slim but dense comic. It tackles some tough subjects, but I didn't emerge with a full sense of understanding. Debating whether to pick up her sequel: [b:Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq|28116811|Rolling Blackouts Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq|Sarah Glidden|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1453685234s/28116811.jpg|48126474]. Hmm...
This was an interesting travelogue and graphic memoir. Israel is a subject that has always baffled me. I just don't get it all. There are so many components to why it is in the state that it's in today. Glidden decides to take a "Birthright Israel" tour of Israel to learn about her roots and where she stands on the Israeli-Palestinian issue. She's determined not to come home a convert to Zionism, and throughout this book we are subjected to her inner struggle to accept that each side of the conflict has its points. It's not black and white. This very thing grated on my nerves eventually. This is a slim but dense comic. It tackles some tough subjects, but I didn't emerge with a full sense of understanding. Debating whether to pick up her sequel: [b:Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq|28116811|Rolling Blackouts Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq|Sarah Glidden|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1453685234s/28116811.jpg|48126474]. Hmm...