David Baldinger - Cartoonist & Photographer

I am posting this by request of a friend in Gaza. Gaza on 9th and 10th August 2014 The security situation in Gaza Strip is confusing! The Israeli air raids did not stop all night and day! In their air raids in the past 24 hours, they demolished more than 100 homes of civilians! For instance, last night in 30 minutes in border town of Rafah, they attacked an area with 30 missiles from F16s heavy bombers! In the meantime, those Israelis conditioned that they will not join the indirect talks with the Palestinian delegation in Cairo except when the Palestinians stop launching rockets at Israel; the Palestinians stopped their military reaction! It was weird and confusing! At the humanitarian level, some of the displaced people have returned to their somehow damaged homes but it is still in a reasonable condition to stay in! This is following saying: "No place like home" or "Home sweet home"! Some others returned during the 72 cease fire period; they wanted to re-es...

Neda al-Watan , the PFLP’s Arabic-language newspaper published monthly in the West Bank and Gaza, conducted an interview with Brazilian cartoonist and artist Carlos Latuff , who is well known for his graphics and cartoons in support of the Palestinian struggle, for its September 2009 issue. Read the full interview in English below: Neda al-Watan Question: What inspired you to become a cartoonist? How did you become involved with the struggle to free Palestine and how did Palestine become the subject of so much of your work? Carlos Latuff: Since my childhood my dream was to be an artist. I used to spend hours in front of the television watching Hanna-Barbera cartoons. After 1990, I started to produce cartoons for Leftist union papers but not for political reasons, just as a professional. Until my contact with the Zapatista Movement in 1997 through the Internet, I wasn’t engaged in any political cause. Then, after a trip to the West Bank, invited by Palestinian Center for Peac...

Pat Oliphant, syndicated editorial cartoonist, created a cartoon the other day that has Zionists everywhere screaming their usual accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ . Bravo, Pat, for being one of the few main stream media cartoonists to make a critical statement about the Israeli government’s over kill in Gaza. Anyone who dares criticize Israel is automatically labeled an anti-Semite so the charge has little meaning any longer. I am surprised that no one has picked up on Oliphant’s reference to the great early 20th Century Communist cartoonist, Robert Minor (1884 - 1952). The Oliphant headless soldier is obviously not  ‘NAZI’ imagery but that of the mindless soldier that Robert Minor called, ‘the perfect soldier’. This soldier dates from World War 1 USA and not NAZI era Germany. I suppose most can be forgiven for not knowing Minor’s work. He was a Communist after all. That’s a scary word for most Americans.   By Robert Minor, captioned Army Medical Examiner: "At la...

From Illustrations

Horrifying photos that you won’t see in the Western Media! Images from Ademmm on DeviantArt

Murder Weapon by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART

Peace In 2009 by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART It doesn't appear that 2009 will be any more peaceful. My New Year's wish is for all people to lay down their arms. Humanity could accomplish so much more if we solved problems together. Stop supporting arms dealers and manufacturers. We have to solve world hunger and drinking water depletion. Fight Capitalist privatization of human necessities! Gaza In Flames by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART Gaza In Flames Reformatted by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART This version was reformatted for: The special gallery International Exhibition "Gaza” Syriacartoon website – 2008-2009 Theme: GAZA in Fire

FOR GAZA by ~ AnubisGraph on deviant ART

Weapon Of Terrorism by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART See full article on story.

This is a special appeal to sign the following Petition addressed to Condoleezza Rice. It will be presented to her early tomorrow….. Petition to End Israel’s Restrictions on Freedom of Movement and the Press To: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 We, the undersigned, condemn Israel’s appalling treatment of Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Gaza correspondent and author of the magazine’s regular feature, “Gaza on the Ground.” The 24-year-old Palestinian journalist was brutally assaulted by Israeli Shin Bet security officials at the Allenby Bridge border crossing on his way home to Gaza on June 26. He had just received the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, which he shared with independent American journalist Dahr Jamail. Omer’s award citation reads, “Every day, he reports from a war zone, where he is also ...

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...

"Now we have nothing left" Report, PCHR, 28 May 2008 Nasser Jaber ( PCHR ) "They came at four in the morning with two bulldozers, and they left before 8:00am. I own this chicken farm with my three brothers, and we worked day and night for 18 years to build up our business. The Israelis destroyed everything in less than four hours." Nasser Jaber's chicken farm was bulldozed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) 10 days ago, in the early morning hours of 16 May, while he was sleeping at home in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. He still looks stunned. Wearily, he guides us round the ruins of his 18-year business. "This was a lifetime project for me and my brothers" he says as we clamber over rubble, wire, shattered sheets of metal and thousands of putrefying chickens. "I have never belonged to any political faction, and I have never been to jail. I don't know why they did this." The farm workers who are starting to clear some of th...

Israel At 60 by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary. A good day for the Jewish people but also a sad day for the displaced Palestinian people. [link] I hope that Israel has safety and peace. I also hope the Palestinian people find justice, a return of their lands and a new state. Today, I am thinking of my peace loving friends in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

IDF Target Practice by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART Let's see how long it takes to be called an anti-Semite. This poster is my response to this article: Israeli Sniper Bullet Takes 12-Year-Old Girl's Life [link] A full size version (A3) is available here: [link]

Gaza,Oops They Did Again by = No-More-Ignorance on deviant ART The good people in the group "No More Ignorance" have put together this PDF publication highlighting some of the current happenings in the assaults on Gaza: Artist's Comments *Israel has been using the heaviest missiles by F-16s. Some experts here estimate that there are one-ton weight of Israeli missiles.... * What happens in Gaza is not an aggression of bombardments by planes, but it is a war of elimination by its full meaning. Babies are being killed, civilians are being killed, and buildings are being destroyed.... Need to reed more?.. Please press Download to get our new PDF project about Gaza, or read it online at Gaza...Oops They did it Again ________________________ Done By NMI Teamwork.. ~lahandi----> Graphic Design and Layout. ~moudax----> Searching and Preparing. ~alshaimaa---> Searching and Preparing.   Fellow Artist Wake Up:lahandi by = No-More-Ignorance on deviant ART

Mensagem do cartunista brasileiro Latuff, em português e árabe, ao povo palestino, por conta da agressão israelense contra Gaza/Message from Brazilian cartoonist Latuff , in Portuguese and Arabic, to the Palestinian people, regarding the Israeli aggression against Gaza.  A Rough English Translation, thanks to Tony ( Palestinian Pundit ), of what Carlos said… This message is to the Palestinian people in Gaza and the Palestinians everywhere. As you know, since 1999 I have been supporting the Palestinian struggle with my art, political cartoons and words. I constantly follow the news of your suffering and the slaughter inflicted on you by the Israelis. In spite of the distance between us I am always with you. I am sorry that the cartoons cannot stop the missiles. I do everything to raise my voice in your support. The Zionists have tried to silence this voice. I am with you completely. I am united with you and I suffer with you. The Palestinians are different from other people. You...

My poster is nowhere near the spectacular one produced by Carlos Latuff today ( link ). A hi-rez version of this poster is available here: link to large version .

From My Cartoons

Target: United Nations Human Rights Committee and Israeli government   Created by: Save Gaza Campaign   END THE HEALTH CRISIS IN GAZA   Since Israeli government declared Gaza as "hostile entity" on 19th September 2007, Israel blocks delivery of essential medicines to Gaza Strip and doesn't allow Palestinian patients to go outside of Gaza for urgent treatment.   The United Nations, The World Health Organization and Physicians for Human Rights have condemned Israel for this situation , but Israeli government is still continue to its policy and Palestinian patients are slowly dying in front of the world.   All the victims of this humanitarian crisis are innocent civilians,and many of them are children. For example in 14th November 2007, 6 months old Palestinian baby Sina al-Hajj died because Israeli government didn't allow her to cross Gaza border for getting treatment.   Palestinian MP Jamal Al Khudari said now there are more than a thousand Pales...