A Palestinian guest house packed with the artwork of elusive British graffiti artist Banksy was unveiled Friday in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, with a sneak peek of what the owner sarcastically called the "hotel with the worst view in the world." 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else jQuery(".artImageLightbox").colorbox(rel:'group3', transition:"none", width:"980px", height:"551px"); yq("a.artImageLightbox").click(function(event) event.preventDefault(); ); var imagesArray = yq( "div[id^='citvCompId']" ); yq.each(imagesArray, function( index, value ) var imgTitle;var imgCredit;var imgTitleFinal;var imgTitleFinalAlt;imgTitleFinalAlt = '';imgTitle = yq(value).children().find('.citv_title').html(); imgCredit = yq(value).children().find('.citv_credit').html() || yq(value).children().find('.ya_citv_credit').html();imgTitleFinal = ""if (imgTitle != null)var lengthTitle = 90; var imgTitleLength = imgTitle.length;var TitleTrimmed;TitleTrimmed = imgTitle;if (imgTitleLength > lengthTitle) TitleTrimmed = imgTitle.substring(0, 90); TitleTrimmed = "...";imgTitleFinal = "" TitleTrimmed "" ; if (imgCredit != null)imgTitleFinal = "" "(" imgCredit ")" "" ;yq(value).find('a').attr('title' , imgTitleFinal); var str;var res;str = value.id;res = str.replace("citvCompId", ".magnifyPiccitvCompId");imgTitleFinalAlt = '';if (res != null) yq(value).find(res).attr('title' , imgTitleFinalAlt); yq('.magnifyPic'value.id).css('display', 'block');yq('.magnifyPic'value.id).css(background: "url(/images/articlepiclightbox/enlarge.png)")yq('#'value.id).mouseover(function() yq('.magnifyPic'value.id).css('display', 'block'); ); yq('.magnifyPic'value.id).mouseover(function() yq('.magnifyPic'value.id).css(background: "url(/images/articlepiclightbox/enlarge-over.png)"); ); yq('.magnifyPic'value.id).mouseout(function() yq('.magnifyPic'value.id).css(background: "url(/images/articlepiclightbox/enlarge.png)"); ); )yq('.artImageLightbox .ya_main_relative_img').mouseover(function() yq(this).siblings('.ya_enlarge_button').fadeIn(200).css('display', 'block'); );yq('.artImageLightbox .ya_main_relative_img').mouseout(function() yq(this).siblings('.ya_enlarge_button').fadeOut(200).css('display', 'none'); ); );Photo: APThe artist's satirical stencils-rats, kissing policemen, riot police with yellow smiley faces-first appeared on walls in Bristol before spreading to London and then around the world. His artwork comments on war, child poverty and the environment. His identity remains a mystery, but his works have fetched as much as $1.8 million at auctions.