David Baldinger - Cartoonist & Photographer

Originally posted by my good friend in Israel, Desert Peace . Make a point of reading his site daily! UPDATE from IPS NEWS… just published. My dear friend and brother Mohammed Omer returned to his native Gaza Strip on Thursday… literally unconscious and unable to speak after being beaten and tortured by Israeli troops. He is still unable to speak so I was not able to communicate with him, I will be posting updates on his condition in future posts. Mohammed was in Britain, where he was the recipient of a prize for journalism. You can read about it HERE in a post I wrote earlier in the week. Mohammed’s ordeal is written about in an Action Alert issued by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs , a journal in which he appears regularly. Gaza Correspondent Mohammed Omer Home Again in Rafah At a June 16 ceremony in London, Mohammed Omer, author of the regular Washington Report feature “Gaza on the Ground,” received the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Pri...

Peace, U.S. style by ~ Latuff2 on deviant ART High Rez version for printing available here

I am lost at sea! My computer finally finally bereft of life. I am unable to do any graphics since I am limited to my wife's laptop. I was planning on taking a break away from the computer anyway. It has been consuming too much of my time. It is actually a relief to not be able to do anything other than email and web surfing. Maybe I can rediscover what doing art on real paper with real materials was like.