1. View the slides
• Describe what you see. What
symbols and images are used?
• What statements do you think the
artist is trying to make?

5. Stable conditions
Banksy's feelings about the barrier are made
explicit in a statement which says the wall
"essentially turns Palestine into the world's
largest open prison."
Unwelcome intervention
Banksy also records on his website how
an old Palestinian man said his painting
made the wall look beautiful. Banksy
thanked him, only to be told: 'We don't
want it to be beautiful, we hate this wall.
Go home.'

8. A view of Israel's highly controversial West Bank barrier, where the
British, guerrilla, graffiti artist Banksy, has painted some of his graffiti
is seen on August 6, 2005 in in Abu Dis, West Bank. Banksy has made
a name for himself with provocative images stenciled around the
streets of London. On his recent trip to the Palestinian territories he
has created nine of his images on the wall.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/world/middleeast/13mideast.html?ref=israel
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/world/middleeast/23mideast.html
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/09/26/world/middleeast/1248069096247/israeli-settlement-building-to-
resume.html?ref=israel

9. Israeli settlements being built in the West Bank

10. Israeli settlements being built in the West Bank