In our American society newspapers are very important. They provide us with a lot of solid information of what is happening in in our local area and in an international level. The newspapers are usually sold to expose conflicts, peace, knowledge, lost, and other cultural media. Not every newspaper carried international news, but the New York Times does, their journalist name Joe Sacco published a comic title “The Underground War in Gaza” on July 6, 2003. In his comic he exposed the conflicts between Israel and Palestine. Sacco then illustrated the attacks that were happening in Palestinian territory, where the Israeli army attempts to control with the excuse of protection on the tunnels. While Palestine waits for their freedom. In the comic Sacco illustrates with various images and writing of what was happening in the borders of both countries. In this paper I’ll report the different strategies that Sacco used in "The Underground War in Gaza" that communicates both Palestinians’ and Israelis' perspectives on this complicated issue. I’ll then analyze the side of each country, as well as, their use of protection, their living conditions, genders with symbol statues and image symbols framed during the transition of the comic book.
Sacco used multiple strategies to obtain his readers attention and reported the communications that both Palestine and Israel were having. He began by using graphics, writing and background messages. In the strategy that Sacco juiced a lot were the graphics, because he was able to express his knowledge on the conflict with more than just words. He reported that Palestine is still at war, with the battle that was uprising over the tunnels and the Israeli army’s bulldozers. Sacco added that the Israeli army was settled in Palestinian territories and that houses were being demolish as orders and investigations were made. The comic shows how he’s the only one that has an actual communication with the upper level of Israeli army demonstrating that Palestinians have no way of communication with the opposing side.
In addition, the first perspective Sacco shows in he’s comic book is protection. Even when protection happens in both sides of conflict, Palestine was illustrated as a more protective community, since the invader was in their territories. He shows how protection was with in Palestinian families, communities, and their pride. The families began to leave their houses, on page 24 of the comic book to get a better protection; Sacco presents how, “his family was chased out by constant Israeli gunfire,” in this frame Sacco draws himself next to Mr. T. Mr. T is a man who looks after his family and had to take a life decision of living their “security” to find an actual secure place to live in. The guns aren’t just from Israeli army as mention, but also from the own Palestinians who want to protect their families. The reason behind this specific quote was to bring a stronger emphasis on the homes that were being demolished...
