119 Picture from the news (Mahmoud Abbas)

memadtwo suggested that I try drawing from photos from the newspapers. Actually I have thought about that for some time now- Maybe I’ll start doing a daily series of illustration of news. We’ll see.

Today, Sweden officially recognized Palestine as a state. They’re the first EU country to do so. The Israelian foreign minister responded by saying something like “the sweeds think that everything is as simple as IKEA”. On the Palestinian side, Mahmoud Abbas spoke of bravery, and posed with for a “politician pointing finger in air-portrait”.