Monday, May 16, 2011

The writings on the Walls.

I really enjoyed reading this article because it has always been something that I always thought about. Palestinians are prevented from so many things that we have access to here in the states or almost anywhere else in the world. I know I never lived in Palestine and I never visited it but just from my relationships with friends and my research I had always believed that the only way Palestinians could get their voices heard was through art. Not only was it a way for them to get their voices heard of coarse, it was a way of resistance, it is their agent of power.
Art which in this case is Graffiti is a tool that Palestinians, and others that have been to Palestine, use to get their message across. They use art to express their feelings and their opinions about certain idea's. I defiantly understand why graffiti a common form of art that is seen in Palestinian territories, for me I see the Palestinians as people who are unheard, dehumanized, and judged with certain stereo types so for them to use this for of art is their way of portraying their identity. In my eyes art is a way of therapy, and like we have seen before in the video that we have watched in class music (a form of art) has boughten people from two sides to a point of tolerance!

To be honest I hope to one day witness this graffiti (work of Art) in person, I'm pretty sure seeing it personally would have an even bigger impact on me
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  1. JosephMay 16, 2011 at 5:37 AM

    This just goes to re-re-re-reaffirm my amazement at Palestinian will and strength. The ability to laugh through tears, to make lemonade out of lemons, to struggle on in the face of adversity etc. Think about it for a moment: as Peteet describes, painting graffiti could get you killed. And yet they did it (and continue to do it) anyway.

    And Banksy deserves some praise, too--not just for showing his compassion by painting beautiful scenes on that ugly wall, but for being daring enough to do it in the first place.

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  2. AustinMay 16, 2011 at 10:05 AM

    For sure Palestinians, in the west bank, cannot get the same treatment that we do in the U.S. Human rights violations are terrible.

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  3. JosephMay 20, 2011 at 7:41 AM

    Something that re-occurred to me after the Pyalara chat and the demonstration Thursday: as difficult, humiliating, and enraging as it was as an American, with an American passport for me to get through checkpoints several times over a couple months, I can't imagine how it must be to go through it, as a Palestinian, multiple times in a month or week or even daily.

    It would take a lot of calm and patience. And then, with the wall making the checkpoints the only way to travel to Jerusalem (and even from place to place within the West Bank), it would take even more.

    So every time I read or hear anything about Palestinians being "angry" or "impatient" or "not willing to take steps toward compromise," it dumbfounds me.

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