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…
Category Archives: Israel
Constants and variables in the Middle East
Ethan Bronner writes about Israeli PM Netanyahu: After a long career supporting Israeli settlements in occupied land and rejecting Palestinian statehood, Mr. Netanyahu said last June that he accepted the two-state idea. Three weeks ago, he imposed a 10-month freeze … Continue reading
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Goldstone’s innumeracy
Martin Kramer recently wrote a devastating post about one aspect of the Goldstone report. The most important sentence in this section of the Goldstone Report is this one: “Mr. Amr Hamad indicated that 324 factories had been destroyed during the … Continue reading
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The AP spin: Hamas calls for destruction of Israel are “suggestions”
Really, you just can’t make this stuff up. Buried deep inside the whitewashed AP version of Hamas’ anniversary festivities in Gaza is this nugged of wisdom from the AP, which purports to show the moderation of the terrorist group even … Continue reading
The last refuge of terrorists
Mary Anastasia O’Grady on FARC’s NGO friends: The 5th Front’s territory includes a town called San José de Apartadó, which was designated as a peace community in the mid-1990s under a plan proposed by the local Catholic diocese. The idea … Continue reading
Palestinian intransigence – the long and the short of it
Barry Rubin – the long of it The attractiveness of unilateralism is understandable. Why make a deal with Israel that might require recognizing it as a Jewish state, taking a bit less territory on the West Bank or having to … Continue reading
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Snarkly
Of course he’s claiming the insanity defense: The Seattle JCC shooter who proclaimed he was a soldier of Islam when he was on his way to murdering one and wounding five others, is trying the insanity defense. The jury is … Continue reading
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Poll dancing
Ben Smith repeats an egregious lie based on a single poll question. (via memeorandum) The survey, by Jim Gerstein, asked Israelis (both Jewish and Muslim) whether a series of terms describe President Obama well, and 39% of respondents said the … Continue reading
3 questions on the freeze
A few weeks ago when Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced a freeze on construction in Judea and Samaria, there were a couple of points in his favor. According to Evelyn Gordon it helped Netanyahu shore up his political support. … Continue reading
Silence is Goldstone
Judge Goldstone has been emphatic that his report on the Gaza war criticized both sides. The report by Goldstone, a South African jurist, lambasted both sides in the December-January war, which killed up to 1,387 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, but … Continue reading
Wednesday briefs (not boxers)
Hamas to world: Goldstone report exonerates us. You know, you really can’t fault their logic. The commission went out of its way not to name Hamas. So when Hamas says that’s proof that they committed no war crimes—even firing the … Continue reading
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The ongoing refuge of the refugees
As I noted a few weeks ago and Elder of Ziyon did yesterday, Palestinian refugees have no legal status in Lebanon – or in any Arab country. So when Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinians, went to Lebanon the … Continue reading
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Tuesday Snarky Newsy Briefsies
EPA to Americans: Stop breathing, you’re poisoning the planet! Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s “Greenhouse gases,” but it’s still CO2, and the science is not settled, no matter how many times the media and AGW adherents repeat that phrase. I would … Continue reading
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America’s pro-Israel consensus
Barry Rubin observes that American support for Israel is headed in a positive direction. Now for those who have an opinion the ratio of those who favor Israel over the Palestinians is now Wait a minute, though. Pew says regarding … Continue reading
Trading places at Aushwitz
BBC profiles an Englishman who had been a POW during WWII, Denis Avey. Avey had been held in the POW camp adjoining Aushwitz and twice switched clothes – his uniform for an inmate’s rags – and places with a Jewish … Continue reading
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Demjanjuk the doubtful?
At the end of a Bloomberg News report about the Demjanjuk trial in German, there’s a paragraph that reads: His death sentence and conviction were overturned by Israel’s Supreme Court in 1993, saying there was reasonable doubt that he served … Continue reading