This excerpt from Harvey Pekar's posthumous graphic memoir, Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, is worth checking out:
Harvey Pekar entered the world as a Zionist. As a young child in Cleveland, his mother, father, and Hebrew school teachers planted an ideal image of the Jewish state that eventually turned sour in Pekar’s mind. Just before the publicly enigmatic comic book artist and writer died two years ago, he documented a daylong conversation with illustrator JT Waldman about the history of the Jewish people, his beliefs versus his parents’, and the debilitating mixture of land, rights, religion, and death in Palestine.
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