Do Not Disturb

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2014-07-28 GazaSStrandDetail+

Carlos Latuff’s cartoon Do Not Disturb – War Criminals Working is reproduced as part of a new mural in the Short Strand – shown in full below. An aproned Benjamin Netanyahu sits in a Gaza trough, filled with the blood of people he butchers with a cleaver in his right hand while gesturing for secrecy with his left. The world watches with some concern, Ban Ki-Moon and the UN look away, and the Arab League is asleep. Barack Obama prevents any intervention with an outstretched arm.

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Rebuilding Confidence

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2014-06-18 TBayFirstFlute+

Mural celebrating the old Tiger’s Bay First Flute marching band, established 1983. The mural is in the style of the UDA’s insignia; of late a UDA power-struggle has been taking place in the area – see Split.

In the background is a board showing the Union flag, the Ulster banner, and St. Andrew’s saltire (the latter pair are also featured in the lower corners of the mural), which in June replaced a ‘Mother – Daughter – Sister’ board celebrating women and designed by children from the local Mountcollyer Youth Club.

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Keep ‘Er Lit

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2014-06-13 NOTAStarsStripes+

Street art on Unity Walk (between North Street and Kent Street) by NOTA (“none of the above” – his web site appears to have disappeared and there’s nothing for TMN – The Most Nasty) showing a US flag in flames.

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Israeli War Criminals

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2014-07-24 IsraeliWarCriminals+

Commentary on the current situation in Gaza, in Clonard Crescent, west Belfast. This has already been removed.

Previously: Where Is The World? | Free Gaza | Freedom In Arabic

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Gorny Goohoo

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2014-05-29 MenagerieGorny+

Street art near Menagerie on University Road – there are similar pieces in other locations. If you know the artist, please leave a comment.

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Freedom In Arabic

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2014-08-03 McQuillanResistance+

“Oppression breeds resistance”, in the form of Leila Khaled and an IRA gunman, and a clenched fist in the colours of the Palestinian flag. This is a new pro-Gaza mural in McQuillan Street with Irish “Tıocfaıdh ár lá” [our day will come] and Arabic “يومنا قادم” [our day is coming] (and in the shields “Saoırse” and “حرية”[freedom]).

The artist is DD Walker (“Rebel Rebel”), who painted the “Against Established Law” Che Guevara mural last (2013) October which this replaces.

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Free Gaza

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2014-07-19 FreeGaza+

Another pro-Palestinian piece, sponsored by éırígí, just round the corner from Where Is The World? Israeli ground operations in Gaza yesterday (July 22) entered their third week.

Previously in this location: Stop Sign | Free Stephen Murney

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Menagerie

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2014-05-29 MenagerieFront+

Out-of-this-world work by Scottish artist (Mark) Lyken (Twitter | Fb) – signature at the top, in the middle – on the front of Menagerie (Tumblr) on University Street. Wide shot below.

Previously from Menagerie: The Piano Has Been Smoking | Eyes Wide Shut

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Stoneyford

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2014-06-24 StonyfordFlag+

An Ulster Banner tops an electrical pole in Stoneyford sporting a picture of an Orange Order collarette and the red hand in barbed wire of the Loyalist Prisoners Association.

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Where Is The World?

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2014-07-19 GazaUt+

Gazans flee ahead of smiling soldiers from homes set ablaze by a tank flying the Israeli flag. This new mural on the international wall associates the current Israeli invasion of Gaza (Operation Protective Edge) with the US/South Vietnamese attack on the village of Trang Bang during the Vietnam war by modelling itself on Nick Út’s 1972 Pulitzer prize-winning photograph for the Associated Press of villagers fleeing a napalm bombing (WP). [Authorship is disputed – it might be by Nguyễn Thành Nghệ – see World Press Photo.]

On the ground in front of the mural are tealights that were lit in memorial and solidarity.

Previously: Hands Across The Yard

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