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Checkpoint Jerusalem - McClatchy Newspapers
Israel's wall divides Tel Aviv
Posted by Dion Nissenbaum
Thu May 1, 7:22 AM ET
(Photo: Lisa Goldman/On The Face)
Check out Lisa Goldman's latest post over at On The Face about a guerrilla street artist who erected a large, faux section of Israel's separation wall in the middle of a popular, bucolic Tel Aviv sanctuary.
The wall generated an interesting, if expected, cross-section of reactions.
Some people were upset by the inconvenience. Others wrote protest messages on the wall. And the wall stood for more than five hours before police came around and asked the artist to take it down.
"I do think there is something very cowardly about building a wall," said the artist, Ehud Segev. "It’s like sitting in a reinforced room in your house all day, wearing a helmet and bullet proof vest. Who wants to live like that?"
