This mural was created in 2009 as a show of support for the Palestinians. The mural shows children holding keys and seeming to watch the destruction beyond the wall which encloses Palestine. In this way this mural is unlike the first pro-Palestine mural created in 1982 which focuses on the armed struggle of the Palestinians in resistance to Israel and depicts a man in the Palestine Liberation Organization holding a rocket launcher with a man in the IRA (Rolston 457). The absence of such imagery in this mural is indicative of a much different rhetoric which focuses on violence against the Palestinian people and draws sympathy for this cause by emphasizing a shared humanity (and uses shared the shared symbol of children which is prevalent in so many murals). This mural falls in line with many internationally themed murals in general: “far from being advertisements for terror international, the international themes taken up in republican murals point to international solidarity. Looking around the world, republicans see other sites of struggle that resonate with their own experience” (Rolston 467).
The defiance that is depicted in this mural manifests itself in the writing on the wall itself—an interesting echo of the importance of the medium that this mural is also an element of. Written on the wall is, “This war is a crime!” and “You destroy our homes, but we build a nation”—which is shown in the process of being painted. These details affirm the power of the medium on which they exist (murals/writing on walls) and serve as attempts to make the viewer not just passively see the injustices in Palestine but to see an accessible form of resistance to them.