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…
Author Archives: Meryl Yourish
J Street: Too gutless to allow comments?
Why no comments on the J Street blog? What are they afraid of? Will they discover that the pro-Israel bloggers outnumber the anti-Israel bloggers, and that J Street speaks not for the “silent majority,” but for a tiny minority of … Continue reading
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Hamas is fighting the last war, redux
I have written more than once that Hamas took the lessons of the Lebanon war to mean that if they did everything that Hezbullah did, they could achieve a “victory” over the IDF the way Hezbullah did. (Realize that our … Continue reading
Gaza war intensifies; IDF targets tunnels
Israel is casting that dreidel very, very carefully. IAF jets struck tunnels connecting the Palestinian and Egyptian sides of Rafah, a Gaza Strip border town which has become a main entry point into Gaza of weapons, dynamite and other smuggled … Continue reading
War snark
Because I know you want it. Stop the presses! I agree with Muammar Gaddafi: Gaddafi: Revoke Arab peace initiative My future husband (sigh) is back in the game: Dan Gillerman appointed head of Israel’s PR campaign for Gaza op Yes, … Continue reading
More liveblogging
Jameel is liveblogging as well. I got this video of an IDF attack on an underground missile launcher from him.
Palestinians cancel Christmas—after Christmas is over
Talk about your exercise in futility. Someone needs to tell these bozos that symbolism needs to be meaningful, not superfluous. Christmas lights will be shut off around Bethlehem, including those on the city’s giant Christmas tree, to protest Israel’s deadly … Continue reading
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Live action Gaza updates
Dave at Israellycool is liveblogging. He also sends us to the following Twitter sites: Twitter kassam count Search for #gaza on Twitter Brian of London on Twitter A word of advice, Dave: Start a new post for each new day. … Continue reading
Morning Gaza wrap-up
The IAF targeted more Hamas installations, including one that housed the jail where Hamas was keeping Fatah prisoners. Darn. Okay, I didn’t mean that. Two terrorist organizations with one blow? Excellent. Fatah’s hands are bloody, too. Those were not innocent … Continue reading
The IDF hits that kept on coming
Yaakov Katz details the intel that helped the IDF utterly destroy the major Hamas centers in the first day of the Gaza operation: A year of information-gathering by Military Intelligence and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) paved the way … Continue reading
Seventh light
Almost forgot. And here’s the sixth light, which I forgot to post yesterday.
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Gaza casualty rate: 94% terrorists, so far
The bad news is that Ismail Haniyeh is still alive. The good news is that it seems the casualty rate was about 94% terrorists. Israeli warplanes rained more than 100 tons of bombs on security sites in Hamas-ruled Gaza Saturday … Continue reading
The mainstream media: Hamas press flacks
You won’t find this quote by Ehud Olmert outside the Israeli media, at least, not at the time of this post. I can’t find it. “Israel has done all it could to preserve the ceasefire with Hamas, but our desire … Continue reading
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Random reggae music thought
Why, exactly, do we have to pass the duchy from the left-hand side?
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How Israel fooled Hamas
A lovely story to take with me to the gym: Maneuvering the enemy: The Israel government reportedly employed several measures in order to lead Hamas into a false sense of security and ensure the operation against the Islamist group would … Continue reading