Showing a few people the Banksy art on the West Bank wall provoked a few comments... one of them, the strange irony that people who were once isolated and walled in (Warsaw Ghetto etc) were now walling others in...
I tracked this comment down somewhere...
"One year ago on 9 July 2004, at the request of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice in The Hague issued an Advisory Opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Court made clear that the construction of the Wall and the settlements were illegal. The Advisory Opinion of the Court represents the most authoritative statement to date of the content and applicability of international law concerning Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. On July 10, 2005, the Israeli cabinet approved the construction of the Wall in Jerusalem and vowed the completion of the Wall by September 2005."
It reminds me of the despairing U2 line from Peace on Earth - "And you become a monster so the monster will not break you."
2 comments:
Echoes of the Exodus. God's people come out of oppression in Egypt and commit genocide in the Promised land. How do we engage with this as followers of the God of Love?
Hi Rory
Yeah... how?
I'm into the idea of Action & Submission - you point out the misuse of power but don't respond in kind... you simply work to bring it into the light - thus you submit to it. It means that you hold out for truth without force... I think this is what Banksy has achieved. How long is the song to be sung? Until the truth sets free I guess!
Mart
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