To Understand What's Happening in Gaza, Read Palestine by Joe Sacco

With what’s going on in Gaza, I urge everyone to read Joe Sacco’s book Palestine. A brilliant piece of journalism in comic book form, it was published ten years ago, but its reporting was done ten years earlier - showing that what is happening there now is nothing new.

Sacco combines his own eye-witness reporting, interviews with Palestinians and Israelis, and a history of the region to show - without ever stating it - that the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians is one of the gr...