Joe Sacco: The War on Gaza

January 27, 2024 2:52 AM

The War on Gaza. The cartoonist Joe Sacco uses his medium to illuminate the plight of people in trouble spots and war zones throughout the world. His acclaimed books, researched during Sacco's long visits to these places and his many interviews with those affected, include Palestine, Footnotes in Gaza and Safe Area Gorazde. Today he begins a new series of short online strips titled The War on Gaza.
posted by Paul Slade (4 comments total)

We want to state clearly and emphatically that we stand with the innocent people of Gaza. At the same time, we emphatically condemn the massacre of innocent Israeli civilians by Hamas on October 7 as a war crime and acknowledge with deep regret the grief and trauma Jewish people are enduring in its aftermath; but this barbarous act does not warrant Israel to commit its own war crime and to inflict exponentially greater grief and trauma in return.

I'm going to end up stealing this paragraph wholesale in the immediate future. Thank you for posting this.
posted by Audreynachrome at 3:33 AM on January 27 [14 favorites]

"genocidal self-defense" may end up a term of art.
posted by chavenet at 4:51 AM on January 27 [5 favorites]

Paul Slade, thank you for this.
posted by tamarack at 6:41 AM on January 27 [1 favorite]

Palestine was an amazing graphic novel that I read not so long after The Complete Maus. The order they ought to read in.
posted by bookbook at 7:51 AM on January 27 [4 favorites]