Footnotes in Gaza … chi sono le “note a margine della Storia” di cui parla Joe Sacco nel suo ultimo reportage disegnato dalla Palestina? Persone destinate a svanire ai margini degli eventi, a essere risucchiate nella rincorsa esponenziale a un computo delle vittime del conflitto. Per realizzare questo libro, Sacco returned to the Gaza Strip, intending to document a crucial year in the relationship between Palestine and Israel: 1956.
think you live in an area that seems to have pointed to the index case of destiny. And that destiny remain hostage. To live in the middle of a perennial international crisis but not quite important and meaningful to participate. Eventually that frustration, that of a people condemned to share that can only hate and not hope, it will seem sufficient to justify suicide bombings.
Sacco performed his research on two tracks, past and present. The Palestinians contemporaries (younger), ask him why he wants to talk about the facts of fifty years before, and insist that this is much worse. While living in direct systematic destruction of Palestinian homes by Israeli armored bulldozers, Sacco goes hunting for evidence of the past, bringing each of these entries with name and surname (insistently, over and over ...). It is a book about removals and he tries to replace the fabric of the greater part of the story notes that the flow of information eliminates violently every day. In 1956, the Palestinian people is pushed in a struggle for economic and political interests on the international stage: Egypt, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, the United States ... all more or less involved in the crisis, with Israel ready to take this opportunity to crush what remains of Palestine.
There is talk of two towns in the Gaza Strip: Khan Younis, where a pretext (invented post ...) and rake the Israelis brutally kill males valid, and Rafah, where instead, in those same days in November, the males are collected in a school like a lager, humiliated and sometimes beaten up.
In this report we obtained through the testimonies (sometimes conflicting because of all the facts before the trauma survivor often recombines the elements in the most useful way to survive the shock) the harm suffered more humiliation that is dying, Cancellation of the body as identity. The Palestinians are killed when they can no longer be humiliated. And the Israeli leadership shows that the removal of knowing the identity of a nation is more effective when it hits the network, if it destroys the social fabric, its ability to regroup, the leaders are not only a consequence of the spirit a people. In an inspired sequence of past and present, Sacco suggests that the systematic destruction of homes today is nothing more than an update of the summary executions of fifty years ago. Return to History of Palestine, its footnotes, it means to give a people their identity.
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