Footnotes in Gaza

A touching and harrowing tale of the most magnificent and resilient people on the planet, and the systematic genocide they have been subjugated to by imperialist colonizers.

This has more than 400 pages, yet I felt sad that the book ended. This book explores Palestine issue and especially what happened in 1956 in the gaza strip. Just like his other books (Palestine, Journalism, etc.), we continue to be shocked by inhumane nature of the powerful. I wish more people do comics journalism. I consider it as more potent than written and TV journalism.

I had read Joe Sacco's Palestine prior to this and loved it............Graphic novel as a medium of Journalism, this is great............Footnotes in Gaza is no different.....Great book depicting the author's experience in the Gaza strip and the condition of people there

A must read

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Graphic journalism at it's best. Joe Sacco's masterpiece after Palestine. Words are not enough to express my delight for this artwork.

Its a masterpiece from Joe Sacco. He has masterfully portrayed the lives of many footnotes in the Gaza region and how their lives did not seem to matter to the most who were fighting in the name of war. It is the story of those people who are normally ignored. Excellent journalism and the cartoons give it a more realistic look where he portrays the emotions of the people who are leading uncertain lives for whom bombings, demolition of houses is just a normal day for them.

This review is not for the contents of the book. The original edition by Johanthan Cape publishers has been reprinted and bound in India by Replika press Pvt. Ltd. , and they did a poor job of cutting the margins of the panels. It destroys the aesthetics of this valuable political graphic novel.

Having read all of Joe Sacco's books, I can conclude - unequivocally - that `Footnotes in Gaza' is his best. Centred around Sacco's quest to uncover the truth around Israel's massacre of 111 civilians in the town of Rafah in 1956 (a `footnote' in his early book, `Palestine'), Sacco expertly flits between his odyssey while detailing the current, miserable fate of those living in the Gaza Strip. In a work that details horrific inhumanity, Sacco - conversely - brings great humanity to the vilified Gazans. The book is full of dark humour and personal insights, but nor is the author one to shirk from criticising Palestinians, for example when they glory in the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. The artwork is stunning in its detail. My favourite set-pieces are when Sacco zooms out of a scene, as if in a film, and reveals the full devastation of Gaza in minute detail. Overall, as a reader, one is left bristling with anger at the injustices of Israel's horrific treatment of Palestinians, but Sacco retains an even tone throughout. Indeed the most obvious comparison one can draw with contemporary Gaza is that of the Warsaw Ghetto. Sacco stops short of making that comparison himself, but anyone studied in history will surely do so. Recalling the Holocaust nevertheless reveals the one weakness in this work. Sacco is largely unsuccessful (although how far he tried, he never tells us) in getting the Israeli perspective on the massacre. What turned the victims of one historical injustice into the perpetrators of another in barely a decade? This is the most intriguing question of Israel's abuse of Palestinians, but one he never addresses. This, nevertheless, is an important book and deserves its place among the literary canon on Palestine. It's cartoon-journalism may be mocked in some quarters, but that is nonsense and an injustice to a style that is as memorable as even the greatest writer could conjure.

History and geography absolutely important that we are knowledgeable about where we come from and our collective pasts and shared histories. AMAZON STOP SUPPORTING ISRAEL

Joe Sacco schrijft en illustreert in dit vervolg op Palestina het abominabele leven van Palestijnen in vluchtelingenkampen.

Like Sacco’s Palestine this book provides a contrary view of the history and status of Gaza. Unlike the establishment view reflected in most MSM articles and news coverage, it brings up the unpleasant reality that Israel has long coveted the territory. Unlike most accounts of the relationship it addresses the massacre by Israeli troops of large numbers of Palestinians during the little-noted 1956 war. The 1956 war was undertaken by Israel in connivance with Britain and France. Look it up. Unfortunately the book was published in 2009 and cannnot therefore cover the repeated deadly assaults on Gaza by Israel. The notion that the current genocidal attacks by Israel on Gaza, though prompted by a real atrocity, is unique fails to move me given the earlier thousands killed in previous “operations” like “Cast Lead.” I hope readers will come away with a sense of Palestinian humanity. In the midst of this now near two-month long campaign campaign against the people of Gaza and its less-noted campaign against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank.

I found this book gave me a lot more insight into the latest conflict between the Israli Government and the people of Palestine. Joe Sacco has done a marvellous job in describing his time in Gaza, and doesn't seem to be "taking sides", as he questions the people of Gaza and their recollections and beliefs just as much as he seeks information into the reasons behind his visits. Inside the "comic book pages", we're exposed to the past horrors of repressive regimes and appreciate the far greater horrors being inflicted on the present-day Palestinian people. Essential reading for anyone seeking to learn about the issues behind the current conflict. A powerful book.