Exclusive excerpt from Joe Sacco’s groundbreaking new book: Footnotes in Gaza
Mondoweiss
22 Gennaio 2010
As
we approach the one year anniversary of Israel’s attack on Gaza, we are
proud to be able to share with you an exclusive peek at Joe Sacco’s new
book Footnotes in Gaza.
Rather than focus on the current phase of the conflict, the book deals
with an often forgotten, or unknown, event – the massacre of 111
Palestinians by Israeli forces in the Gaza towns of Rafah and Khan
Younis in 1956. While these southern Gazan towns are currently in the
news as the Gaza Freedom March and Viva Palestina convoy try to enter
Rafah from Egypt, Sacco’s book takes us back to 1948 and 1956 to show
us how we arrived at the point we are today.
We’ll be posting more on the book in coming weeks, including a more
formal review and an interview with Sacco, but as we turn our eyes
towards Gaza on this solemn anniversary, let us remember everything
that came before it. (Click on the image below to view it larger, and then click in the upper right hand corner to scroll to the next page.)
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From the Book FOOTNOTES IN GAZA by Joe Sacco. Copyright
© 2009 by Joe Sacce. Reprinted by arrangement with Metropolitan Books,
an imprint of Henry Holt and Company LLC.
by Adam Horowitz
Source > Mondoweiss
