Palestine

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Palestine es un diario gráfico de no ficción escrito e ilustrado por Joe Sacco sobre sus experiencias en Cisjordania y la Franja de Gaza en diciembre de 1991 y enero de 1992. La representación de Sacco de la situación enfatiza la historia y la difícil situación del pueblo palestino, como grupo y como individuos.

Resumen

Palestine es una novela gráfica de no ficción escrita e ilustrada por Joe Sacco sobre sus experiencias en Cisjordania y la Franja de Gaza en diciembre de 1991 y enero de 1992. Sacco's portrayal of the situation emphasizes the history and plight of the Palestinian people, as a group and as individuals. Historial de publicación The complete graphic novel, published in 2001 by Fantagraphics Books, collects nine issues of Sacco's Palestine comic book, published by Fantagraphics from 1993 to 1995; the single volume edition includes an introduction by Edward Said. In 1996, Fantagraphics had released a two-part collection of the series — Palestine, a Nation Occupied (collecting Palestine #1-5) and Palestine: In the Gaza Strip (collecting issues #6-9). An expanded edition was released in 2007. Resumen de la trama The book takes place over a two-month period in late 1991 / early 1992, with occasional flashbacks to the expulsion of the Arabs, the beginning of the Intifada, the Gulf War and other events in the more immediate past. Sacco spent this time meeting with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the narrative focuses on the minute details of everyday life in these areas. In Palestine Sacco positions himself knowingly as the westerner going to the Middle East to confront a reality unfamiliar to his American audience. Sacco does not delude himself that as a "neutral" observer he can remain invisible and have no effect on the events around him, instead accepting his role and concentrating on his personal experience of the situation. Though his goal is to document events and interview Palestinians he is affected by the reality of the occupied territories and cannot help but participate in, and comment on, demonstrations, funerals, roadblocks and encounters with soldiers. Towards the end he becomes even more active as he shares food and lodgings with the Palestinians he interviews and even breaks curfew with them while in the Gaza Strip.

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Notable quotes

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
— Pro-Palestinian slogan, reported in Al Jazeera English, "From the river to the sea': What does the Palestinian slogan really mean?", 2 November 2023.
“We must and we will pursue a comprehensive peace between Israel and all her neighbors in the Middle East.”
— William Jefferson Clinton, Bill Clinton’s Third State of the Union Address (1995)
“By what moral or political standard are we expected to lay aside our claims to our national existence, our land, our human rights? In what world is there no argument when an entire people is told that it is juridically absent, even as armies are led against it, campaigns conducted against even its name, history changed so as to “prove” its nonexistence?”
— Edward Said, The Question of Palestine (1979), p. xvii, 2nd edition (1992), p. xliii
“Palestinians are, today, among the most victimized, scapegoated, and attacked people in the world. I watch as their suffering and mass murder is propagandized through pervasive dehumanized representations that falsely position them as "dangerous" when, in fact, they are the ones endangered and in desperate need of outside intervention.”
— Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (, 2016)
“Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful under international law due to its permanence and the Israeli government’s de facto annexation policies.”
— Three-member Commission of Inquiry appointed by the UN, recommending the issue to legality of the occupation be referred to the International Court of Justice (ICJ); "Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory illegal: UN rights commission", United Nations News (October 20, 2022)

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