The Underground War in Gaza by Joe Sacco.

originally posted by xowie

The recipe is unvarying. The Palestinians are required to pledge that they will instantly abandon all vestiges of resistance to Israel's onslaughts on their persons, children, houses, land, crops, water, trees, livestock, roads, schools, universities, graveyards and public buildings. In return Israel agrees that a few years down the road the government of Israel will begin to ponder the outlines of a dim possibility of formal ratification as a Palestinian statelet of whatever tiny sliver of territory they haven't already appropriated.

originally posted by xowie

The founder of Maon Farm, Yehoshefat Tor, says he still thinks the bombing was a good idea. "The Torah says we should kill all the Arabs," he told me. "Not just Arabs who maybe help terrorists. Everybody." His neighbor at Maon Farm, David Ben Zvi, a 27-year-old shepherd who lives with his wife and children in a blue-and-white city bus, tells me that he would like to see a "Jewish Taliban" that would run the country according to the Torah. "This is my land, but it is not my nation," he says.

originally posted by daiichi

''They are good and courageous people, the sort of people who took great risks to save Jews during the occupation,'' Bromberger wrote to Summers. ''What you insinuated about them was sheer, crude calumny. You must have known that. You must know people like them. ... As a Jew, I found your statement to be slanderous. As a holder of a Harvard degree I found it embarrassing.''

originally posted by xowie