Bansky Strikes Again!

 

Click here (BBC) to view some of the whimsical yet politically charged graffiti by Bansky on the 'Israel-West Bank Separation Barrier'... (and click here for Bansky's website).

Does this kind of activity make light of the conflict? Or does it amplify/clarify it for a larger audience?

Reading Between the Lines

Click here (from whitehouse.gov) to browse President Obama's speech today to the UN General Assembly. Note especially the highlighted section discussing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict...

What are your thoughts/observations about what the President did (and did not) say? About the terminology he did (and did not) use? About the location and extent of this material within the overall speech? About the implications for America's potential (non-)involvement in the foreseeable future?

Indepenence and Catastrophe

Click on the links below to view the human repercussions of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...

Palestinian Arab refugees (PalestineSpring, YouTube)

Middle Eastern Jewish refugees (DavidProject, YouTube)

What are your observations/reactions about the historiographic and ideological perspectives of these presentations? About their respective production values? About their intellectual and emotional impacts?