Comments on: Rebecca Harrison’s Pilgrimage To Bethlehem’s West Banksy

By: nuff said

nuff said — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:55:17 +0000

Just read on e-bay that that Donkey vanished !!! Although for half a million smackers , i can stuff it in me garden !!

So much for protest , just as greedy as the rest of em ‘

By: Anorak

Anorak — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:49:58 +0000

It’s an enigmatic smile…

By: David

David — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:49:11 +0000

Horror…………. me smiley face didn’t work!!!!!

By: David

David — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:48:24 +0000

What’s that Anorak?
I wasn’t paying attention……..:)

By: Anorak

Anorak — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:12:13 +0000

The danger occurs when an artist says something an starts believing others are paying attention to his message.

By: David

David — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:54:42 +0000

I agree!
Art is ok, but what Banksy may think is cutting edge and witty obviously doesn’t fly in another culture. I get his point about the donkey and Israeli paranoia but I’m a white westerner not a Palastinian arab who’s at the receiving end said paranoia.
So, if one of his ‘artworks’ get replaced by a mural of a black cat at midnight in a power cut then tough luck Banksy, they’re just expressing themselves.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:43:13 +0000

Patronising and demonising are the two things crap arty-intellectuals are great at. Banksy did both in one picture.

The thing I really don’t understand is why people go to conflict zones to be outraged and indignant and to add to the pressure and violence already there - when the solution to conflicts is to build greater trust between opposing factions, to make their goals workable for both sides and to try and bring their competing narratives into something less murderous.

Israel works on the premise that the entire Arab world (that’s a couple of hundred million to Israel’s 5 and a half million) want to drive them into the sea - and having been murdered and persecuted so relentlessly in Europe it’s no wonder that Zionism seems to be such a last resort. Of course that’s not the fault of the Palestinians, but attacking Israel wont help unless you think a genocide is the best option.