Guy Delise is an author and writer of graphic novels portraying I guess his real visits and stays overseas drawing pictures. His book Jerusalem shows the two or three hundred spots he visited in his stay and the book is a mesh of spots and settings that are very confusing and have no timeline much like his other book on Burma. Guy Delise went to Jerusalem and draws his daily observations of life in the occupied territories and Israel in general through this book divided by months as chapters.
Guy shows the young reader how Israel is a police state with check points and mass security at every site. he shows how Israel is an apartheid state where separation between Jews,Muslims, and Christians is a daily fact not to be questioned and is to be enforced. he shows Israel parallels early America where Jewish settlers quickly claim land rights over Palestinians whose families sat on land for generations. guy works as a cartoon ist and taught comics in Israel if his book is truthful for some jingle but mostly he was there with some organization called MSF as pertaining to doctors without borders who volunteer their time to help and provide health care to people. Guy visits Samartarians, observes Jewish Purim, checks out the old market, sees the wailing wall, a stop in Hebron,smokes hookah at an ambassador's place, sees a Bedouin village, and visits a ton of museums. you get the idea that this society is pretty complex and crazy and having a guy like guy Delise wandering around asking questions and drawing is the last thing Israeli society and the Arabs need to have to deal. The drawings and storylines are pretty simplistic and doffer the reader little on what are the continuing root causes of Israel and Palestinians inabilities to find a solution for some sort of neighborly state co-existence between the two peoples and their religions .As with his book on Burma guy gets hassled many times by security and police and pretty much delivers his point that these societies suck to try to sit and relax while drawing some scenery 
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