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Title: Palestine by Joe Sacco, Edward Said ISBN: 1-56097-432-X Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.74 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Reality Bites
Comment: Too much coverage of the Israeli-Palestine conflict limits itself to the (almost boring by now) daily Ruters action-reaction of militant activity and IDF reprisal. Forgotten is the fact that millions of regular, normal human beings have to endure occupation in the name of nationalism and religion, backed by military might.
Joe Sacco shows us that there are Palestinian men, women, teenagers, grandmothers, farmers, cab drivers, fruit sellers, and many, many other HUMANS that suffer quietly behind fences, tanks, bars, blindfolds in the face of overwhelming military might. His entire mission is to listen to stories of occupation, and he devotes many pages to stories that will make your skin crawl. He'll remind you that most Palestinian men have been to an Israeli prison, most Palestinian men have been beaten, many Palestinian men have endured torture, and that most Palestinians endure humiliation on a daily basis.
If you do pick up this book (and you should), I'd urge you to keep in mind the whole time you're reading it that it takes place over a decade ago. Try and imagine if innocent lives have changed for the better. Remind yourself that mass punishment of an entire people is a war crime. Above all, remember that millions of Palestinians are not all suicide bombers as we are led to believe in the media, and those innocents caught up do in fact have aspirations of education, travel, love and freedom.
And then the bulldozers came.
Rating: 5
Summary: What is it like being a Palestinian? Why should you care?
Comment: Starting with a typical attitude of "Who cares?" Sacco shows us how his visit to the West Bank and Gaza in the early 1990s transformed him completely. Palestinians have much against them in todays world, not least the stereotypes of "supporting terror" etc, etc that the Israeli propaganda machine heaps on them every day. These stereotypes create a formidable barrier between the Palestinian people and Americans. Americans do not feel like they should even pay attention to these "insignificant terrorists" - and that is precisely the goal of the propagandists in the first place: to silence the Palestinians and prevent their very HUMANITY (let alone their message) from being recognized.
Enter Joe Sacco, with master strokes of a cartoonists pencil, he succeeds singlehandedly in shattering those barriers. For the first time in an American puclication, you actually SEE Palestinians as people, you enter their households, you talk to them, you listen to their problems, and you think about it. Well, so what?
If you always thought that the middle east problem is "too complicated" or "has been going on for too long" to be able to understand it, it is time to get out your credit card and BUY THIS BOOK. In the most enjoyable cartoon style that makes it hard for you to let go of the book, you will see things like you've never witnessed them before. This is the raw human story, not the clinically sterilized CNN version of events, or the dry history book polemics. I guarantee that after reading Sacco's Palestine, something will click and you will finally understand what's been going on, more clearly than you ever have before.
WARNING: Not for the faint of heart!
Rating: 5
Summary: Joe Sacco - a different type of comic artist
Comment: Highy entertaining, visually rich and very thought provoking.
Throughout our lives we have heard the cause of Israel, but rarely we get such an intimate potrait of the vicitms, the sufferers, and the consequence of the occupation. Joe Sacco takes us on this rare journey through the refuge slums of Palestine to the high life of Tel Aviv painting a contrasting, sometimes deeply moving, othertimes hopeless picture of the situation.
A recommended must for anybody who wants to understand the dynamics of the mid east conflict and put themselves in the position of the victims not the politics.
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Title: Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco, Christopher Hitchens ISBN: 1560974702 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi ISBN: 0375422307 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Fixer by Joe Sacco ISBN: 1896597602 Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Pubns Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Notes from a Defeatist by Joe Sacco ISBN: 1560975105 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed by Art Spiegelman ISBN: 0679748407 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 19 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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