The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Tag Archives: Mahmoud Abbas
Mideast Media Sampler – 05/27/2013
1) Why didn’t Abbas answer Olmert? Last week Avi Issacharoff reported on a recent interview he had with Ehud Olmert in The Tower. Much of the story was known, but Olmert provided some new specifics about his offer to Abbas … Continue reading
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Tagged Ehud Olmert, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Mahmoud Abbas, Mideast Media Sampler, Syria
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If you keep rejecting a deal it probably means …
The New York Times features an analysis, Mideast expert fear peace talks are too ambitious. The headline is probably correct as Abbas has no real standing to make any deal. But this paragraph struck me: But those urging a more … Continue reading
“I … am in the position to grant nothing”
Via Daily Alert blog. An article in the UAE’s the National Abbas is a man in exile, even among his own All Palestinian political factions, bar one, have denounced the direct talks, some in harsher language than others. Only Fatah, … Continue reading
… or forever hold your peace
In The Palestinian Authority Struggles to Sabotage Any Chance for Peace, Barry Rubin observes: And here, too, is the PA openly thwarting President Barack Obama, who publicly bristles at the tiniest Israeli disagreement, yet seems to accept this disrespect without … Continue reading
The odd “peace logic” of the New York Times
Yesterday’s meeting between Israeli PM Netanyahu and President Obama did not impress the editors of the New York Times. In Mr. Netanyahu at the White House, they write: President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel satisfied their short-term … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, New York Times
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The Abbas charm offensive
Mahmoud Abbas has been very talkative lately. He talked to American Jewish groups. He’s talking to the Israeli media. It’s a pretty good PR offensive. He seems eminently reasonable. Except it’s all a facade. Abbas, in the briefing with Israeli … Continue reading
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Mr. Abbas goes to Washington
If you recall, when chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was in Israel to celebrate his son’s Bar Mitzvah, he invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington to meet the President. Then the IDF encountered a group of militants on the Mavi … Continue reading
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Lies my Fatah told me
The headline reads Abbas: Second intifada was one of our worst mistakes The first paragraph reads: “The second intifada was one of our worst mistakes,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told an Egyptian television station on Wednesday. “[Late Palestinian leader Yasser] … Continue reading
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Abbas is negotiating with a maxed out credit card
Evelyn Gordon speculates at the end of The Purpose of Proximity Talks: Why is the proximity-talks charade necessary? Because currently, Obama lacks both public and congressional support for moving beyond mere verbal hostility. If he didn’t realize this before, the … Continue reading
The Post on proximity talks
The Washington Post has a pretty good editorial on the upcoming proximity talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Israelis and Palestinians are ready to begin talking — sort of: INDIRECT TALKS between Israelis and Palestinians appear finally set to … Continue reading
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Tagged Mahmoud Abbas, washington post
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Wednesday snarks
But Islam is a religion of peace: Jihad Jane, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed American woman who converted to Islam, was arrested for plotting to murder a Swedish cartoonist and enlisting terrorists to the cause. But “jihad” means inner struggle, so that … Continue reading
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Tagged Israel, Joe Biden, Mahmoud Abbas
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Instransigence: a single use word
The Washington Post reports: Mitchell, who in January boasted that a peace deal could be done within two years, said he hoped the indirect talks would lead to direct negotiations as soon as possible and encouraged the parties “to refrain … Continue reading
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Tagged Binyamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, washington post
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A Palestinian state: when?
As I noted yesterday, Barry Rubin published a timely essay recalling how the Palestinian blew a chance to prevent Israel from ever existing – 70 years ago. I didn’t think it required any further comment. But then I read something, … Continue reading
Passive aggressive Abbas
In a perfectly bewildering column Jim Hoagland blames President Obama and Judge Goldstone for undermining Mahmoud Abbas. In It’s up to Netanyahu he writes: No one could accuse President Obama or Judge Richard Goldstone of South Africa of harboring ill … Continue reading
An unworthy hack
The New York Times had a symposium on Mahmoud Abbas’s resignation. Three of the participants, Rashid Khalidi, Fawaz Gerges, and Daoud Kuttab took the approach that Abbas had his authority undermined by the Americans and has no partner among Israelis … Continue reading