Hillary Chute interviews journalist and comic book author Joe Sacco, whose recent book, Footnotes in Gaza, examines two Palestinian massacres in 1956:
It’s almost as if history bleeds. In people’s minds, one bit of history bleeds into another bit of history. Some people have a very hard time keeping straight what happened in ’67, what happened in ’56. And it gives you this idea, especially in the particular case of the Palestinians, that history hasn’t really stopped. They’ve never had the luxury of looking back and isolating things, and thinking about it and coming to terms with it. … Every generation is somehow brutalized, and their parents are transmitting bitterness and frustration.
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