Cartoonist Joe Sacco on Gaza: Is this land ground zero for the apocalypse?

"Civilising has always been the West's default burden and mass murder the shiniest tool in its box. The Americans had their 'manifest destiny', the French had their Algeria, the British had their Kenya, the Australians had their Tasmania and the Germans..."

"And now together they have Gaza."

A lot has changed in historic Palestine since Joe Sacco first published his groundbreaking comic book series of the same name between 1993 and 1995, later collected as a graphic novel in 2001.

Much has stayed the same.

When he first arrived in December 1991, the First Intifada was still underway, the Palestinian uprising that first alerted much of the world to their plight in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.

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