It is difficult not to be impressed by Joe Sacco’s “Footnotes in Gaza.” A unique journalistic product, Sacco’s latest book offers an in-depth look at disputed events that took place after the Israelis occupied Gaza at the beginning of the aborted British-French-Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956. Perhaps these are neglected “footnotes” in the history of this pitiful strip of land, but Sacco makes them central as he assiduously researches the events. He does so while crafting an engaging, first-person narrative that offers not only a description of how he went about his research during much of 2003, but also a meta-narrative of life in Gaza during that time. An indefatigable reporter, Sacco conducted numerous interviews and consulted a number of different archival and textual sources as well. Formatted like a graphic novel, “Footnotes in Gaza” is presented as a deadly serious work of fact.
A prequel of sorts to his award-winning 1995 work, “Palestine,” a provocative book that presents the author’s interviews with dozens of Palestinians and Israelis in the occupied territories during his stay there in 1991-1992, “Footnotes in Gaza” sits in the same genre as Sacco’s “Safe Area Gorazde,” a riveting visual account of war in Bosnia during 1992-1995. If you’ve never seen Sacco’s work, you should get hold of one of his books, because his work as a serious visual journalist — creating graphic narratives of recent conflagrations in Europe and the Middle East — is truly nonpareil.
Israel’s forays into Gaza have never been a tea party. Used as a launching point against Israel since the Jewish state’s inception, Gaza acted and was treated like an enemy state, even when thousands of Israelis were settled there under occupation. While that occupation ended in 2005, Gaza still suffers the effects of decades of violence. “Footnotes in Gaza” homes in on two forgotten massacres — one in Khan Younis and the other in Rafah — both perpetrated by the Israeli army in November 1956, during which hundreds of Palestinians were beaten and killed.
The Israeli explanation of the hundreds of dead is that the army was quelling a riot. The Palestinian version is that the events were unprovoked massacres. This is the voice Sacco gives to a Palestinian narrative from a period that is rarely mentioned, since these events of 1956 have long been overshadowed by the seemingly more important wars of 1967 and 1973. Even some Palestinians complain to him during the course of his research that he’s barking up the wrong tree. But by putting the events of 1956 under the microscope, “Footnotes in Gaza” helps us to understand why contemporary Gaza continues to be a pressure cooker overflowing with anger and resentment.
Throughout the 400-page narrative, Sacco presents a visually stark collection of oral histories, some of which contradict one another, he admits, but which also supply descriptions of realities on the ground. For example, many Gaza residents tried to keep militants away from their homes, but they found their houses destroyed by Israel nevertheless. Dissenting internal views are often highlighted, such as those of one man who bitterly complains: “The Arabs don’t know their own history.” With a common perspective of Palestinians as either victims or victimizers, the book presents a Gazan society with breadth, one we don’t often see. Sacco humanizes Palestinians in a way their usual venue, the nightly news, never quite manages to do.
Sacco cleverly uses numerous variations of cartoon panels, often varying their size, sometimes cascading them across one another, as visual devices that speed the narrative. He also exploits perspective to the advantage of the victims, bringing the reader to the center point of an Israeli clubbing, or presenting the physical viewpoint of a wounded Palestinian on the ground.
Perhaps Sacco’s most effective device is the contemporary meta-narrative he has woven into his story of the 1956 massacres. Using himself as a main character, he pivots between the terrors of 1956 and the terrors of 2003 as he researches his story. A likable schlemiel who has good rapport with everyone, Sacco often wonders whether or not to believe a particular informant, and every once in a while he discards a story he feels is not credible. A reporter with scrupulous integrity, Sacco admits it when the story “wobbles.” He understands the pitfalls of using these oral histories and engages them as well as he can to get at the real story.
For Sacco, that real story is an amalgam of Palestinian oral histories of the events in Rafah and Khan Younis in November 1956. Nonetheless, it would have been useful for him to have interviewed Israelis involved in the affair, rather than merely supplying text-only appendices offering information from the Israeli side. While he did hire two Israeli researchers to look through Israeli archives on the events, it would have been pertinent to provide the Israeli side with a voice. Mordechai Bar-On, then chief of staff to Moshe Dayan, makes a brief, if limited, appearance, and his is the book’s most substantive Israeli voice. However, Israeli soldiers appear throughout the book mainly as one-dimensional aggressors. As a result, the power of Sacco’s images is skewed heavily against Israel.
That fact is perhaps one of the best reasons to read ”Footnotes in Gaza.” With its cacophony of Palestinian narratives and perspectives unfamiliar to American readers, “Footnotes in Gaza” offers an unusual window onto the minutiae of Palestinian daily life and history. Told entirely from the Palestinian perspective, it will probably make supporters of Israel queasy. But those who care about Israel should also concern themselves with the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza, who continue to chafe under what they call a “siege” and the Israelis call an “embargo.” In this war of words and images, perspective makes all the difference.
Eddy Portnoy is a writer living in New York.
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Also see Patrick Cockburn's ‘They Planted Hatred in Our Hearts’ - New York Times Sunday Book Review. [Excerpt] "Joe Sacco’s gripping, important book about two long-forgotten mass killings of Palestinians in Gaza stands out as one of the few contemporary works on the Israeli-Palestinian struggle likely to outlive the era in which they were written. . . . He stands alone as a reporter-cartoonist because his ability to tell a story through his art is combined with investigative reporting of the highest quality. . . . Sacco’s pursuit of Palestinian and Israeli eyewitnesses as well as Israeli and United Nations documentation is relentless and impressive." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/Cockburn-t.html
"Joe Sacco’s Graphic Narrative of 1956 and 2003"
This is a book from the perspective of a Western passing for a Palestinian. His point of view is that of an anti-Jewish activist.
Let's stop pretending that he is some kind of obejctive reporter. He isn't.
The same is true of Patrick Cockburn's tendentious ‘They Planted Hatred in Our Hearts."
The pogroms against Jews in Turkish (early part of the 20th century) and in British Palestine (Hebron, Haifa, 2920's and 30's) gives the lied to Cockburn's claim.
See: Yaacov Lozowick: "Right to Exist, A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars"
http://www.amazon.com/Right-Exist-Moral-Defense-Israels/dp/1400032431/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262759610&sr=8-1
There has been anti-Jewish hatred in the Arab world for over a thousand years.
Michael Levin “Also see Patrick Cockburn's ‘They Planted Hatred in Our Hearts’ - New York Times Sunday Book Review.”
You haven’t given Michael Levin given much thought to this, have you Levin?
Many Germans and other European antisemites blame the Jews for the Holocaust saying that “they planted hatred in out hearts.”
On the other hand, do you think Jews are justified in carrying out suicide bombings in Germany because they killed millions of Jews?
Do yourself a favor and give this issue a little bit of thought.
As others have said the hatred was there from before 1948!
To view excerpts from Footnotes in Gaza ["Exclusive excerpt from Joe Sacco’s groundbreaking new book: Footnotes in Gaza"] see: http://mondoweiss.net/2009/12/exclusive-excerpt-from-joe-saccos-groundbreaking-new-book-footnotes-in-gaza.html
[Excerpt from intro by Adam Horowitz: "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 . . . "]
3-Things:
1) Mr. Joe Sacco is a Judeo-abe-Christo Maltaian who protects & Distract the "Pedophile-Priests" of the mass-childAbuse-atrocities cover-ups & down of His/Thier Beloved Vatican. So He & CO., will dare not even think to discredit his [un] holy Poppy-Pope via his drawing talents/gift etc.. Sooo, Forget the Danish guy!
2) Fact: History is OUR Jury, Judge & Witness; And pleazzzza blogger-Freunds, that in Truth (opposite Myth) THAT; besides Alexander The Great [pbuh] whom invaded GAZA +/- 330 BCE, THAT; Around 632 AD/CE, by Abu Akbal et al, the same year that the Judeo-abe-Islamic Muhhamadian, Mr. 'Muhammad,' died (via Poison-Meat by some Judeo-abe-Jewish 'Concubine' which he/they enslaved (after Murdereing her Husband & stealing their wealth & lives) from 'Yathrub' [Mecca] as revenge, THAT; It was the Judeo-abe-Islamic 'Arabous's whom Conquored the GAZANs, aka CANAANiTES, aka "Low Lifes From Low Land"s (as the Pharoahs used to call them BAAL-Idol-Worhipers suddenly turned Judeo-abe-Islamic) and No/Not the diaspored Judeo-abe-Jewish tribes etc.. Note: Around 637/9 the Arabous's Invaded JERUSALEM & IRAN too. Note again; The Iranian Zoroastrian, of the 1st Judeo-MONO-G_D system was Mass-Murdered & had their own "Shoa/Holocaust", yet suppressed that part of history. Sooo, History is Everybodys Jury No? Yes! AND
3) As a young SABRA-American lad, Raised by Afro-Americans, and growing-up in Coney Island Brooklyn 1960's that, there was a Forwards Printing Factory on w. 25th St., Surf Ave at the N.E. Corner where i [WE] used to go & fetch the Forwards, right off the Printing Press. Talkin bout Hot! Note: we [i] had a dog named 'Lucky' [pbuh] who would also fetch the paper & sometimes Bagels n lox (via a Saddle) at "GITLER"s on Mermaid Ave.
Note: It is not only that Work sets US free but Truth. SHOLOM!
ooops, forgot:
Dear World: Fact (Reality) & Truth (opposite Myth), THAT; i [WE] never knew what it was to have a "Grand-Totta nor Grand Momma nor Uncles nor Aunts nor Cousins etc.. Note: According to me "HAGGANAH" Father [pbuh] that He was Not a Bastard child! Soo,
Those Pre-Apocalyptic jealous thinking "Skin Heads" aka Nazi lovers & or "Holocaust/Shoa DENY"r(s); are very Stupid indeed (hence art Dangerous people today) because They Have & enjoy their Mishpacha (Family) network; of which their Ancestors Deprived US! And
so Big Mouths folks (1/2 Humans) like Iran's Mr.? Amadineijad, aka "aMADmanOfJihad" & CO., don't know what it's like growing-up without direct-Relatives. So the Hamastanian & Hiz/herBullazians & Co;, aka Jealous ISHMAEL-ESAUites are very very very Stupid! Hence Stupid People? are Dangerous not only to US but to themselves!
PS: Me Mother (not a Bastarda either) Hasd Lost All the Men in her Family via (Judeo-abe-Chrito E. Orthodox) STALIN; and so me Dad lost Both Sex's via Cathoholic & POPE Fearing Judeo-abe-Christo Hitler et al!
So; Denying "History" is lieing/kidding one self & thus dangerous to & for Humanity's [US] "MEME"s & beyond!
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i [WE] unjustly realised, since this is me 1st Forwards Blogg postings experience herein, That I don't know how to 'print" me [i] own original 2 postings here, for me records; soo
You & Co. art "NOT ALLOWED TO recycle my/my 2 postings (story excerpts)! Unless; unless somehow i [WE] can print ALL (includes Every Post of the Blogger Freunds here); then & only then can ye be allowed/permitted to re-hash or use (for Prophet or Prifit or not) what WE [i] justly wrote. Else Delete/purge me works & i we will no longer post here, but will start posting again back on "jpost"!
Happy Every-Day! Then;
Sholom. Peace. Paz. Salaam. Mir. Freiden. Ahimsa. Shantith. Zhingyu....
Judea and Samaria are not 'occupied', but 'disputed' territories. Gaza was not 'occupied' either. Don't trust an author, artist, or reporter that uses misleading language.
Michael, thanks for those links.
Mondo Weiss has a substantial excerpt. http://mondoweiss.net/2009/12/exclusive-excerpt-from-joe-saccos-groundbreaking-new-book-footnotes-in-gaza.html
I liked Joe Sacco because he tells the good and the bad about the Palestinians he met. I can trust him to be honest.
Here's a fascinating quote in the New York Times book review, which I missed first time around:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/Cockburn-t.html
But early in 1956, the Israeli chief of staff Moshe Dayan made a famous speech at the funeral of an Israeli commander killed on the border with Gaza. What, Dayan wondered, explained the Palestinians’ “terrible hatred of us”? Then he answered his own question: “For eight years now they have sat in the refugee camps of Gaza, and have watched how, before their very eyes, we have turned their lands and villages, where they and their forefathers previously dwelled, into our home.” He added that Israelis needed to be “ready and armed, tough and harsh.”
What this meant in practice became clear as Israeli troops took over Gaza six months later. The killings in Khan Younis were relatively straightforward, according to eyewitnesses and a few survivors. The men of the town were told to line up in the main square and were then systematically shot so their bodies lay in a long row. Some who stayed in their homes were killed there.
Dear Norman, Israel Shamir being an antisemitic Swedish/Russian Christian (and apparently he faked his Judaism to immigrate to Israel, probably as a KGB agent), you only strengthened what Jonatan said.
Eddy Portnoy has an interest in promoting anti-Israel cartoonists, as this piece attests to. He also interviewed Carlos Latuff. In 2006, Latuff entered and was placed second, winning $4,000, in the controversial Iranian 'International Holocaust Cartoon Competition. Does Mr. Portnoy plan to interview other participants in the Iranian competition and would he promote artists who denied the Holocaust?
You mean this cartoon? http://www.irancartoon.com/120/holocaust/002carlos-Latuff-%2812%29.jpg
Unfortunately it's too close for comfort.
Eddy Portnoy has a right to interview anybody he wants.
Sacco documented two Israeli massacres of Palestinians, without any military justification. He also documented the daily humiliations the Israelis inflict on the Palestinians. This is all uncomfortably reminscent of Kristallnacht or the Warsaw Ghetto.
You can't challenge the facts, so you're using ad hominems.
You would be better off facing the truth and trying to stop these crimes.
You would be better off if you followed the example of the Scholls and von Moltke.
Clement Fong -- you should be embarrassed. Eddy Portnoy is a national treasure who has no such interest in promoting anti-Israel cartoonists. He is one of the smartest gents the forward has and is the only reason i bother to pick up the paper anymore.
scouse power, since you mentioned it, I searched the Forward for Eddy Portnoy's other stuff, and you're right, he's brilliant.
http://www.forward.com/articles/14746/ Simple, Offensive and Out There Extreme Cartoons Distort Israel and the Jews By Eddy Portnoy Published December 18, 2008, issue of December 26, 2008.
Here's what he says about Carlos Latuff:
It’s true that Latuff’s Israel-Palestine cartoons are harshly (this may be too soft a word) critical of Israel. The images can be brutal, and Latuff often uses the Holocaust as a metaphor for the conflict. He also depicts Israel’s leaders as devils and vampires, and Israeli soldiers as baby killers. But let’s be clear: The animus is directed at the State of Israel, its leaders and its army. None of Latuff’s cartoons libels the entire Jewish people, something that would seem to be necessary in order to charge Latuff with antisemitism.
And most insightful of all:
In one odd moment, the author thanks the cartoonists he is exposing as antisemites for their “friendly collaboration” in allowing their work to be published in his book. If he was in contact with these cartoonists, it’s too bad he didn’t bother asking them what their motives were. It also seems like a lost opportunity to discuss the issues involved, especially since he hopes his book will “alert the cartoonists of the Arab-Muslim region to a certain sense of responsibility.” If one of Kotek’s expressed goals is to reduce the anti-Jewish vitriol in Arab cartooning, some attempt at a dialogue with those he perceives as irresponsible would have been a good start.
As if that wasn't brilliant enough, he actually interviewed Carlos Latuff:
http://www.forward.com/articles/14745/
"Yosef 'Tommy' Lapid, Ariel Sharon’s former justice minister and a Holocaust survivor ... said in 2004, during an interview, that a photo of an elderly Palestinian woman searching through rubble reminded him of his grandmother who died in Auschwitz."
"it’s not my fault if Israel chose sacred religious motifs as national symbols, such as the Knesset Menorah or the Star of David in killing-machines like F-16 jets. I can’t be blamed for making an Israeli bomb-dropping warbird adorned with a religious symbol, because that’s the way Israeli air force planes are."
This article and interview are worth reading in their entirety. Calling Latuff an anti-Semite makes the word anti-Semite meaningless.
Congratulations, Forward, for giving voice to Jews on all sides.
I'm not sure what the purpose was of pasting that Wikipedia article as a comment, but this is a working link to a page of all the Holocaust cartoons in English. http://irancartoon.com/120/holocaust/index.htm
Eddy Portnoy's commentary still applies.
I am happy to see that artists that recognize the unprecedented evil of the apartheid zionist entity are being recognized in the mainstream jewish press. It is not accidental that yiddish scholars are leading this movement, because jews provoked the world much less in the days when yiddish was the lingua franca compared to today, when hebrew, with its ugly guttural tones, is used. While this will infuriate right wing zionuts, I do hope that Mr Portnoy will interview the other artists from the Iranian holocaust competition, and that he will bring alternative views of the holocaust to the Forward and other mainstream Jewish publications. It is important to realize that the holocaust did not occur in a vacuum
"Stella Goldschlag," you are a provocateur and and your kind of talk is not part of our discussion.
Norman last I heard, you are not the editor of The Forward. Therefore, I dont think you can decide what is part of the discussion. As much as I despise the views of Stella Goldschlag, I believe The Forward should keep her views on this discussion. Her views are perhaps 1 degree more radical than yours
Mr. Finkelstein sounds a bit confused. He was referred to as a "self-hating Jew", not as an "unpatriotic German" or a "traitor to Palestinians" or any other red herring. As to the relevance of the criticism at which he was flinging the fish, clearly history has seen both those who had truly internalized racist narratives about an identity they felt they could not escape, and those whom the description simply did not fit. I don't know anything about Mr. Finkelstein except that, on the strength of the exchanges above, he clearly prefers herring to self-criticism. For those with a greater interest in critical thought, on the other hand, much that is interesting has been written on this theme. The best book is Sander Gilman's.
Sacco's political comic book hardly gives an "in-depth" look at Gaza events of 1956. It gives a Palestinian view matched in its skewed perspective only by the laudatory NY Times review of the book written by Patrick Cockburn, a man who has spent much of his career as a semi-professional critic of the Jewish state. Even if the events described did take place as described by Sacco's sources (and that is far from proven) it is nonsense to claim it is a primary source of Palestinian hatred for Israel. That argument is as empty as the argument that Arabs hate Israel because of the Israeli presence in the West Bank & Gaza. The Palestinian establishment has hated Israel, denied its legitimacy and subjected its people to murderous attack long before the Israeli army ever marched into the territories in response to the murders and other violence perpetrated on Israelis by Palestinian terrorists and Arab armies.
I've been to conferences where Israeli government officials gave lectures to their supporters on how to complain to the media that their coverage was anti-Israel, and how to attack their critics.
The Israeli government is rounding up volunteers, and even hiring people, to post messages on the Internet to try to control the damage of Operation Cast Lead.
So I'm not surprised to see so many people posting messages to this comments page.
Tikkun had an article about that, where they gave a link to a campus guide that the Israel government had prepared. And the Forward had an article about a debating guide that Frank Luntz circulated.
One of the points they raised was -- avoid the issues. Just try to score points. Make personal attacks.
Indeed, that's what you're doing. You're making personal attacks on me.
And you're avoiding the issues, because you can't defend Israel on the issues -- the IDF is killing Palestinian children, just like the Nazis did to us.
Of course the immediate reaction when children are killed, in a war or otherwise, is 'How terrible'! As is well known, the arabs purposely target civilians including children. Those lost on the arab side are due to the enemy intentionally using civilian shields. Given the present state of indoctrination and hatred being fomented against Jews throughout the arab/moslem world,it is certain nowhere is the level of taught hate greater than Gaza. While subjectively one would lament the death of children, the objective dispassionate attitude should be,'In the final analysis, though objectified as children they are future terror recruits for Hamas and the responsibility for their fate lies solely with Hamas.
"While subjectively one would lament the death of children, the objective dispassionate attitude should be,'In the final analysis, though objectified as children they are future terror recruits for Hamas and the responsibility for their fate lies solely with Hamas."
I wouldn't go that far, George.
I do agree that Hamas and the PLO target Jewish children deliberately and that Israel does not.
My main concern about hysterical anti-Israel blood libel charges by NOrman and his ilk is that they are hypocritical.
Tens of thousands of children have been deliberately murdered in the Sudan and elsewhere in genocidal campaigns yet when a few Arab children die as a result of Hamas using them as shields Israel is made out to be "uniquely evil."
The total number of casualties in the Arab Israel conflict since 1948 has been miniscule compared to conflicts and wars elsewhere.
You would never know this from reading Norman and other hysterical Jew haters.
'I wouldn't go that far, George.'
One can only go as far as one's logic is able to penetrate.In terms of dealing with those who plot to destroy us, we have lost the will and the determination of our ancient Kings and prophets. As far as Gaza goes, every arab there, man, woman, child is incubating in a petri dish of Jew hatred. If we are unable, in political terms, to achieve the same degree of devastation upon our enemies as our ancestors did upon theirs, at least let us be clear-minded and able to acknowledge that every dead Gazan arab is one less potential Jew killer. If we refuse to eliminate this arab cancer, then let us not be conflicted by the occasional tumors which are removed from the body.
"One can only go as far as one's logic is able to penetrate.In terms of dealing with those who plot to destroy us, we have lost the will and the determination of our ancient Kings and prophets."
Come George, which King's are those? King Ahab or King Zedekiah the King that lost Judea? The prophets moreover railed against the King's.
But this is neither here nor there, and while you are right that Hamas and the PLO are teaching children Jew hatred and telling them to murder Jews but Israel is not targeting Israeli children deliberately. Their action are in accord with the teaching of the Prophets.
This is the basic difference between Israel and its enemies.
According to Jerusalem Post journalist Eliezer Whartman "When Egypt was in Gaza" the Gaza Strip after the Six Day War bore stark witness to Egyptian aggression, callousness and inhumanity.
"For 19 long years, the area had been run directly by the Egyptian army.
"Under a "constitution" drawn up by the Egyptians, all legislative powers were invested in the Egyptian military commander, who controlled the civil administration. All political parties, except one endorsed by the Egyptians, were banned. The military governor also acted as the judiciary, and there was no appeal.
There were no elections. A puppet government automatically ratified all legislation that the governor brought before it. In 1965, even this façade of local autonomy collapsed when the Egyptian army dismissed the legislature.
The secret police probed everywhere. No one was immune from sudden arrest and unlimited imprisonment without trial or, at best, a secret trial. The jails were always full and torture was common. There was official censorship of the press and mail, and telephone lines were regularly tapped.
For nearly 19 years, the inhabitants of the Strip were prohibited from leaving their homes from 9 p.m. until dawn on pain of death. This curfew was enforced by roadblocks. Men between 18 and 40 were prohibited from traveling to Egypt unless they were fortunate enough to secure permits. If they failed to return at the expiration of their permit, the military authorities took steps against their families.
The Egyptians seized property at will, while refugees were prohibited from owning land. Thousands of young refugees were forcibly conscripted into the Egyptian army. Many were sent to fight Gamal Abdel Nasser's war in Yemen; others were sent into Israel to murder, sabotage and disrupt communications.
Three-quarters of the able-bodied were unemployed. Medical and social services were almost nonexistent The Egyptians did nothing to help farmers, create housing or develop industry. The majority of Arabs in the Strip outside the town of Gaza were left to rot, without sewage, running water, electricity or roads.
INDOCTRINATION TO HATRED of Israel started at the very tenderest years. I saw pictures which children had drawn, with the encouragement of their teachers, depicting themselves killing Israeli children. The textbooks dripped venom. One text for the third grade, entitled Arabic Islamic History read: "The Jews are always the same, in every time, every place. They live only in darkness. They secretly plan to do evil; they fight only from hidden places because they are cowards. We must purify holy Palestine from their filth in order to bring peace back to the Arab homeland."
So harsh was the Egyptian rule in Gaza that Radio Mecca broadcast this protest on March 10, 1962:
"We would like to ask Cairo: What is this iron curtain that Abdel Nasser and his cohorts have lowered around Gaza and the refugees there? These are the very methods which the dictator Hitler used in the countries he occupied. Imagine, Arabs, how Nasser (who claims to be the pioneer of Arab nationalism) treats the Arab people of Gaza, who starve while the Egyptian governor and his officers bask in the wealth of the Strip..."
THE ONLY AREA in which the Egyptian army was active, aside from suppressing human rights, was in smuggling. There was a lively trade between its warehouses in Gaza - stuffed"