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: Soccerdad
Qualities of mercy
This picture and caption is infuriating: Bassam Kantar, the brother of Samir Kantar, the longest-held Lebanese in Israel, imprisoned since 1979 for killing three Israelis, gestures as he holds a picture of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah during a rally … Continue reading
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Justifying the prediction of the surgeon general
Bradley Burston in The Palestinians’ time is running out. You have justified every last claim and prediction of the Israeli right. Ponder that for a moment. Let me digress. Say that you hear tha a friend of yours, Smoky Joe, … Continue reading
Negotiating in the dark
When reading about the Israeli-Syrian negotiations it’s easy to dismiss them on account of Olmert’s legal trouble or because it isn’t even clear that Israel stands to gain anything from ceding the Golan to Syria. It’s also reasonably clear that … Continue reading
Dear Mr. Hoyt
Dear Mr. Hoyt, In her valedictory from the Middle East, Deborah Sontag wrote “Quest for Mideast Peace: How and Why it failed.” In it she tells a story: But Palestinians drove away from that dinner with something else on their … Continue reading
Dura-bull
Knowing that the verdict in the Karsenty-Enderlin trial is due today, I looked for some news. But when I googled “Karsenty” I got precisely one result in the news section. It had to do with a talk Phillipe Karsenty gave … Continue reading
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Staying in the center while everyone else moves left
Sen. Lieberman on what’s wrong with the Democratic Party: By contrast, in 2000, Gov. George W. Bush promised a “humble foreign policy” and criticized our peacekeeping operations in the Balkans.Today, less than a decade later, the parties have completely switched … Continue reading
We know what’s best for you 2
Jeffrey Goldberg nearly breaks his arm patting himself on the back for his op-ed article Israel’s America problem. My op-ed in the Times has provoked a certain amount of unhappiness in people who believe it to be an attack on … Continue reading
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What makes a pro-Israel president?
In Obama and the Jews Thomas Friedman writes: What does that tell you? It tells me several things. The first is that America today has — rightly — a bipartisan approach to Arab-Israeli peace that is not going to change … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, palestinian politics Tagged Doubting Thomas, Israel, presidential politics 5 Comments
We know what’s best for you
Jeffrey Goldberg know what ails Israel and tells us in Israel’s America Problem: When I spoke to Mr. Olmert a few days after his meeting with the Conference of Presidents, he made only brief mention of his Diaspora antagonists; he … Continue reading
Krauthammer on Israel’s 60th
Interestingly Charles Krauthammer starts his column about Israel’s 60th birthday (or here) on May 14th (well the English date anyway) by recalling an event that preceded the Lewis and Clark expedition that started May 14, 1804. Before sending Lewis and … Continue reading
The real Palestinian collaborator
Often you’ll hear Palestinians complaining that Israel was founded due to European guilt over the Holocaust, but since they had nothing to do with the Holocaust, why should the Jews be allowed to create a state that dispossesses them? The … Continue reading
Terror attack in Ashkelon
via memeorandum A Grad missile hit a shopping mall in Ashkelon yesterday injuring 15. Israel believes Islamic Jihad is getting the Grads from Iran. “It’s part of the Iranian war against Israel,” former deputy defense minister Ephraim Sneh told Israel … Continue reading
Half witte
As the successor to Scott Wilson, the Washington Post’s Israel correspondent Griff Witte had some mighty low expectations to meet in terms of reporting objectively. Witte has very quickly managed to establish himself the equal of Scott Wilson in terms … Continue reading
Industrial Zones for Peace
Writing about an industrial zone on the border of Gaza set to open nearly ten years ago, William Orme of the New York Times reported: Now, hailed by all sides as the first tangible achievement of the current phase of … Continue reading
Technological enforcement
Ha’aretz reports on a new Israeli startup that has developed technology to detect terrorists: Quietly, even stealthily, this unknown company has been working for five years now on one of the more interesting technological innovations to be created in these … Continue reading
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