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
Portraying Hamas
Barry Rubin writes about a recent Washington Post article about Hamas: Here’s a good article on Hamas and how it’s a barrier to peace, with no illusions about the group moderating or being misunderstand. The article also points out how … Continue reading
Gaddafi Jewish too now? Oh boy…
The ink on the latest “revelations” about Mahmoud the Mad’s Jewish roots has barely dried and evaporated (after all it was a canard, created, most probably, by his political rivals). And here we are on the brink of another scandal: … Continue reading
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The Goldstone Report Kangaroo Court
The UN-Israel follies continue, as the next act in the “Let’s give Israel a fair trial and then find her guilty” show moves from the Human Wrongs Commission to the UN Security Council, where America’s vote can be the difference … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel 4 Comments
Israeli Jew wins a Nobel, world boycott movement in shock
Go ahead, world. Boycott Israeli academic institutions. It totally makes sense, because it’s not like Israeli students will grow up to do Nobel-prize winning work or anything like that. Israeli scientist Ada Yonath, 70, was awarded the Nobel Prize for … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Jews 20 Comments
Jews pray in Jerusalem; Arabs riot
What happens when Jews try to pray at their holy sites in Jerusalem on their holidays? Why, the tolerant Palestinian Muslims try to kill them. And the head of the Palestinian Authority, the ostensible Israeli peace partner, talks about not … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Religion 31 Comments
Why did Israel jail the pregnant woman?
The media likes to boast that they are the “first rough draft of history.” Part of that claim is that they are disinterested parties just reporting the facts as they are. Rafael Broch of Just Journalism had an excellent op-ed … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time Tagged Gilad Shalit 14 Comments
Best of The Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere #237
Every week we run a blog carnival called Haveil Havalim. It is a collection of the Best Posts of The Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere. I am pleased to let you know that the 237th edition of the carnival is now live. As … Continue reading
A story about Gilad Shalit that does not discuss Gilad Shalit
The Christian Science Monitor, a newspaper that has never been a friend to Israel, carries a story with this headline: Israel’s captured youths: Gilad Shalit and a Palestinian girl with braces You would expect it to be a profile of … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias, Terrorism 2 Comments
Gilad Shalit, alive and well
This is Gilad Shalit, alive and well, as of two weeks ago. This is me, eating my words. Thank God.
Posted in Hamas, Israel, Terrorism 3 Comments
Goldstone leaves many stones unturned
Yaacov Lozowick watched Christiane Amanpour’s interview of Judge Goldstone. (video available) He observed: The second is his comparison of the Israeli judicial system and that of the Hamas: Israel’s is secretive and not reliable. Hamas, on the other hand, has … Continue reading
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Anatomy of an anti-Israel hit piece
The headline of an AP article earlier today: Israel prepares for battle over war crimes claims The update this afternoon: Israel trying to dodge overseas prosecution The original lead: Oct 1, 7:55 AM (ET) By AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) – … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel 5 Comments
“Can this trash”
The New York Times has a completely unremarkable account of Tuesday’s proceedings. Apparently neither Dr. Siderer’s testimony nor Cuba’s plea for “freedom of expression” were noteworthy to the Times reporter. Interestingly neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post … Continue reading
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Gilad Shalit video to be released
This is huge, if true: The names of the 20 Palestinian prisoners slated to be released in exchange for a video providing proof captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is alive, have been released. The exchange is meant to serve as … Continue reading
Goldstone impeaches self
Stephanie Guttman noted who Judge Goldstone listened to. I wrote the other day about the ludicrously biased Goldstone Report issued by the UN’s Human Rights Council, which accuses Israel of war crimes in last winter’s war with Hamas in the … Continue reading
The wrong accounting
In an affront to Jews worldwide, the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed essay by Rabbi Brant Rosen, before Yom Kippur, “A call to moral accounting.” Rosen uses the Hebrew term “cheshbon hanefesh” to give a religious patina to his blatantly … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time 10 Comments