1. Sacco ignores the fact that the subject of his work is people, instead treating them as an exhibit that he has nobly chosen to observe.
2. Sacco only wishes to document conflict and the pain of those who suffer and not to understand their story. 3. Sacco does not shy away from revealing his own ambiguities as a visiting western journalist. He depicts his own initial disbelief of reported detentions and torture. Therefore, he is able to make no pretense of the realities of life in Palestine and its people. 4. Sacco believes that traditional journalism - photographs of violence and newspaper articles - is an inadequate way to represent the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 5. Sacco's use of caricature (the exaggerated facial features of angry individuals) insults and dehumanizes his subjects.
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