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
Friday SNB
Anyone out there not surprised? Obama delays moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, just as all of his predecessors, in spite of the bill passed by Congress in 1995. But then again, the bill deliberately gave the president an out. … Continue reading
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Pee-EU
The EU is sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong. (Not that that’s anything new.) Howard Schneider of the Washington Post reports in Israel decries proposed E.U. stance on East Jerusalem: Israel on Tuesday criticized a proposed statement by the … Continue reading
Closing the barn door after Goldstone escaped
President Obama decided to get involved in the UN Human Rights Council – an organization that was shunned by President Bush – in order to transform it. Barry Rubin reminded us in the wake of the release of the Goldstone … Continue reading
Just fears
I don’t agree with a number of his premises, but Carlos Strenger makes two important points in Israel’s Just Fears of a Palestinian State. What would Israel’s situation be after withdrawing from the West Bank to the 1967 borders? All … Continue reading
If “softer tone” means “more brazen” I agree
In a mis-titled news story, Hezbollah strikes softer tone in second manifesto: analysts, AFP reports: …Salem points out that the second manifesto, while softer in tone, nonetheless defends the party’s right to bear arms. “It refers to the weapons as … Continue reading
Watch the media spin
The AP released a brief story on the Lebanese government affirming Hezbullah’s defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 to disarm. This version holds too much of the truth in it. Prediction: Mention of 1701 will be dropped to the … Continue reading
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The UN regrets
Isabel Kershner reports at the New York Times that Jewish Nationalists Clash With Palestinians: Jewish nationalists and Palestinians clashed in an East Jerusalem neighborhood on Tuesday after the Israelis took over a house by court order in a predominantly Arab … Continue reading
Your Tuesday morning snark
Because it’s not like the UN hasn’t passed any anti-Israel resolutions, ever: Mahmoud Abbas thinks it’s time for another anti-Israel resolution. Why? Because the man who refuses to sit down and negotiate with Israel until all of the Palesitnian conditions … Continue reading
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The deflated New York Times hopes for Obama
It’s not just the Arab/Muslim world that’s disappointed with President Obama, the New York Times is too. The Times has come to the belated acknowledgment – the Washington Post noticed this back in July – that the administration hasn’t been … Continue reading
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Arab boycott: It’s working for Israel
You simply cannot read this article without laughing. The Arab boycott has actually protected most Israelis from losing any money over Dubai’s credit implosion. Thanks to the Arab boycott of Israel, which partially included Dubai, few Israelis have been exposed … Continue reading
Black Friday Snark News Briefs
And Nero fiddled while Rome burned: This is just funny. The Dorktator’s senior advisor (what the hell is a “senior advisor” anyway? Is that like “the guy I inherited from Dad that I can’t fire because he has too many … Continue reading
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Lebanon’s descent
In Lebanon, the raidicals keep on strengthening their positions. Peter Berkowitz writes (via memeorandum): Six days later, on March 14, a Sunni, Christian, and Druze crowd of more than 1 million–a quarter of Lebanon’s population–shook their nation by gathering in … Continue reading
To be overlooked in the next Lebanon war
When Hizbullah attacks Israel, and Israel retaliates by bombing strategic points in the whole of Lebanon, and the world reaction is shock and disgust that Israel attacked the state of Lebanon instead of “just” Hizbullah, kindly refer back to this … Continue reading
A pillar of moderation
Yesterday, writing about the speculation surrounding a possible prisoner release to gain the freedom of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, Backspin quoted, Dan Meridor: “Those who don’t know can talk,†Dan Meridor, Israel’s intelligence minister, said Monday on state radio. “Those … Continue reading