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…
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We’ve got a mighty envoy
Michael Hirsch of Newsweek, fresh off of mocking Rudolf Giuliani’s foreign policy team and misidentifying them, now has a solution to the problems in the Middle East. The President needs an envoy. A peace envoy. See if you can figure … Continue reading
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Aiding … and abetting
The Washington Post reports Aid Request Emphasizes U.S. Support of Palestinian Authority Leadership. At least it doesn’t say that it shows U.S. support of peace. Since Hamas seized Gaza, the Bush administration has sought to demonstrate support for Palestinian Authority … Continue reading
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Celebrity blogging
Ha’aretz has an article about (Israeli) celebrity bloggers. One day last summer, while whizzing along a highway in the Galilee panhandle and listening to a Miri Mesika anthology, a blogger by the online name of Michlula got the fright of … Continue reading
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Diogenes of the Middle East
In a controversial essay in the LA Jewish Journal Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky asks to Consider a divided Jerusalem. After acknowledging the controversial nature of his views and getting a few formalities out of the way, he says he seeks honesty. … Continue reading
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Googling terror
Last week several bloggers noted a Guaridan story that terrorists in Gaza were using Google Earth to target locations in Israel. So when I saw this item, I thought, “Oh good, Google has responded to the concerns.” A tipster to … Continue reading
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Qassams and rights
Rights groups challenge Gaza energy cuts Human rights groups challenged Israel’s reduction of fuel supplies to Gaza and its intention to cut back on electricity, and Palestinians warned the measures could lead to a humanitarian crisis.The Israeli Supreme Court on … Continue reading
Apologists
In The Attempt to Kill Olmert, Barry Rubin writes Several Fatah security force officers assigned to protect Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as he went to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas, it has just been revealed, planned … Continue reading
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Headlines of the week
Abbas, Olmert pledge ‘meaningful’ understandings Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas agreed on Friday to try to find a meaningful agreement to take to a planned Middle East meeting, an Israeli official said.”They agreed to try … Continue reading
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Haveil Havalim #138 is UP!
At Soccer Dad. The topics are: Blogging Antisemitism Culture History Israel The Rabin Assassination Judaism Politics Torah Kiruv Next week’s hostess is Mother in Israel. To submit a post for next week, click here. Deadline for submissions is Friday.
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Iranian sanctions
The Washington Post about the sanctions against the Revolutionary guards: “The president does not want to be stuck — and doesn’t want his successor to be stuck — between two bad choices: living with an Iranian nuclear weapon or using … Continue reading
Am ha-aretz-ut
There was a typically arrogant column in Ha’aretz earlier this week, Nimrodi’s Test by one Ehud Asheri. It’s about the change in leadership at the helm of the competing daily, Ma’ariv. Ofer Nimrodi, owner of the mass-circulation daily newspaper Ma’ariv, … Continue reading
Wiped clean
via memeorandum The New York Times reports that – commercially available – satellite photographs confirm what the Washington Post reported a few days ago: Syria has cleaned up the target of Israel’s September raid. “It’s a magic act — here … Continue reading
Spoiling for a fight
According to the NY Times the United States is prepared to declare the Quds unit of Iran’s Revolutionary guards a terrorist organization. The administration also plans to accuse the entire Revolutionary Guard Corps of proliferating weapons of mass destruction, the … Continue reading
Giving the cap back
There’s a fascinating story about a daring Israeli commando raid 35 years ago in the Jerusalem Post. The Sabena plane had been hijacked by Black September, a PLO splinter group, after leaving Vienna, where it had stopped on a flight … Continue reading
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Equating the victim with her killer
Media Backspin writes of the documentary To die in Jerusalem, which somehow balances the death of Rachel Levy with the death of the girl who killed her. (My guess is that the movie ignores the hero, Haim Smadar, who died … Continue reading
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