Palestinians are screening the World Cup on the separation wall

It's the perfect union of art, pub and politics: Ever since the start of 2010 World Cup, Joseph Hasboun, owner of “The Wall Steak House” in Bethlehem, has “>celebrate the re-opening of shops along “>a staggering search for three kidnapped Israeli boys. Almost 500 affiliates of the Palestinian political party Hamas, which Israel believes to be behind the abduction, have been arrested in the sweep. However, it has also had a profound effect on the rest of the West Bank's residents, whose living rooms are being ransacked and whose streets are being blocked by soldiers under orders to find the boys at all costs. (And perhaps “>that runs “Banksy's Shop,” a souvenir stop for everything Banksy located just around the bend. They smoked some shisha and greeted nearly every new tourist posse or Palestinian family that trickled in during the game.

Abdalla, a local graffiti guru, told me that while painting the white rectangle onto which World Cup games are now screened, steak house owner Hasboun had covered up a giant painting of a camel — a piece reportedy done by Spanish street artist Sam3 during