Girl And A Soldier Analysis

Banksy, creates “Girl and a Soldier”, a stenciled image that interprets a young girl frisking an armed soldier. Banksy’s stenciled image is on a wall in the West Bank in Bethlehem. The reaction Banksy wanted to get from the place selected was about the human rights, also due to the birth of Jesus being there. Banksy is an artist that is anonymous England-based graffiti artist, who is also a political activist and film director of unverified identity. He started his art in 1990-1994 as a free hand graffiti artist, becoming inspired by the local street art Banksy realizing that the stencil was a less time consuming art form deciding to create stenciled art. By the 2000 Banksy was creating stenciled art on the streets. Banksy became an artist …show more content…
There are “checkpoints” given to control the Palestinian population. The checkpoints where established in 1991, when Israel started to monitor the population of the Palestinians. Palestinians had to have permits to enter Israel, most of the checkpoints being in the West Bank and Gaza. Women have experience of the searching for the right to be there this boy and his mother experience this at a checkpoint, “the soldier barked at my mother “give me your ID,” and I saw her searching for it in her handbag. Then he grimaced and exclaimed half-jokingly, “you are detained (Naaman 168).” This is how women are being treaded in their daily life. The use of fallacy, overly sentimental appeal is used with this, because it shows how the child is seeing his mother having fear of something about to happen if she doesn’t pull out her permit. The actions of the Israel towards the Palestinians affect all the family members. Education is cut down, health care, and rights to own any land. As Prof. Richard Falk and Dr. Virginia Tilley write, “Domain 2 covers the approximately 300,000 Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem, who experience discrimination in access to education, health care, employment, residency and building rights. They also suffer from expulsions and home demolitions, which serve the Israeli policy of “demographic balance” in favor of Jewish residents (194)”. The citizenship is a law …show more content…
The people who are able to see the wall every time they walk by the image and reminds them of the brutality that happens to them. The low opportunities that are giving by living there. The lives of the Palestinians is worth then can be imagined. Apart from being beaten, detained, and tortured Palestinians have more boundaries towards them. Israel has a strict blockade on Gaza, which is the control of everything that comes in and out of the territory. The blockade is established to avoid Hamas. Hamas are a militant political group that brings food and medicine to Palestine. Even the restriction of food is viewed by Israel, in a 2007-2010 government document, the Israel military calculated the number of calories people in Gaza need to not starve. The calculation was used to estimate the use of the food supply needed in Gaza. The blockade was also used to restrict the shipments of materials. The control of access to water in Palestiane is also restricted, making Israel the main source of the water. When the weather is hot the demand for water rises, but with the restrictions from the water brutal consequences follow for example, unsanitary water is used, less cooking, showering, and agriculture is being made. The way Palestinians travel is also strict, roadblocks, checkpoints are scattered all around making the commute impossible to happen. The curfews of the Palestine state are mostly on Jewish holidays,