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
The Best of The Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere
It has been a busy week filled with all sorts of news and not all of it good. Every week the Jewish/Israeli blogosphere produces a blog carnival in which you can find their thoughts about numerous topics. If you want … Continue reading
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UN wants to fine Israel, Israel should bill UN
The leader of the organization that helps supply Hamas with funding for the missiles that rain down on Israel (see: UNRWA and related organizations that help pay Hamas members’ salaries) wants to fine Israel for responding to the missiles. UN … Continue reading
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The campaign’s the thing
During the campaign last year, we kept on hearing stories about how supportive President Obama would be of Israel. Those of us who looked at his associations and wondered how someone with his background would be pro-Israel were mocked for … Continue reading
Pre-election Iran, pot calling kettle, pink glasses etc
The fake drama developing in Tehran these days is sort of ironic. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad further fueled the unprecedented drama in Iranian politics ahead of Friday’s national elections, giving a fiery response Wednesday to harsh criticism from one of the … Continue reading
Israel helping Gazans, world doesn’t notice
This isn’t getting any play at all in the anti-Israel media. Israel began construction of an underground pipeline on Tuesday that will deliver diesel fuel and cooking oil to the southern Gaza Strip. The decision to build the pipeline followed … Continue reading
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Making the desert bloom
Science fiction fans will remember the dew collectors in the novel Dune. They’re not science fiction in Israel. A new Israeli company Tal-Ya Water Technologies, which launched in May, promises to squeeze dew from the air for watering crops where … Continue reading
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Dennis the pro-Israel menace
The Washington Post focuses on the diplomat in charge of running policy on Iran, with a feature titled: Dennis Ross Faces Big Task on Iran Policy, Including Overcoming Pro-Israel Label. Now this isn’t the actual title in the print edition, … Continue reading
What the Obama speech really said
Here, I think, is the simplest example of what Obama’s Cairo speech did to Israel.
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The studiously avoided refugees
In his speech in Cairo last week President Obama referred to himself as a “student of history.” A number of writers have pointed out that there’s a dimension of the Middle East’s history that the President failed to mention. A … Continue reading
Mending fences, Middle East style
When (then-)Crown Prince Abdullah wished to repair the image of Saudi Arabia – 15 of whose nationals had been involved in the worst terrorist act on American soil – in American eyes, he invited Thomas Friedman to Riyadh (Friedman, a … Continue reading
Abbas the obstacle
I was surprised by two opinion pieces over the weekend. One was by Thomas Friedman, After Cairo, it’ Clinton Time. I assumed that Friedman was going to write how Secretary of State Clinton now had to pressure Israel. In fact … Continue reading
More dividends of the Cairo speech
The Saudis are telling Obama to create peace by fiat. Arab patience is wearing thin in regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz told US President Barack Obama during their meeting in Riyadh last Wednesday. According … Continue reading
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Beach Blanket Blog Carnival Time
I don’t know about you but summer is easily my favorite time of year. And even though I haven’t been in school in years I always get a bit restless waiting for it. Fortunately we don’t have to wait any … Continue reading
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The elusive issue of settlements and pols’ honesty
To start with: I am not necessarily carrying a torch for all Israeli settlers, but there is a long a complicated history of the whole settlement issue, there are different ways to resolve the problem, not inevitably by removing all … Continue reading