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
Why isn’t any journalist doing this?
A rank amateur, Elder of Ziyon (together with PT Watch) is actually doing some reporting. He’s going through the fatality list from a leading Palestinian human rights organization and showing how quite a few of the “civilians” listed at PCHR … Continue reading
Before the separation fence: A life of fear
The New York Times has a great feature. If you’re reading one article about a subject, at the end of the article are links to others that might interest you. So while reading David Brooks’ latest column on Israel, I … Continue reading
Important throwaway lines
In today’s New York Times, Isabel Kershner is keen to emphasize the different emphases of the Israeli and American governments. But one line in her short dispatch, Israel: Netanyahu Demands Recognition of Israel First, tells an untold story. Palestinian officials … Continue reading
Happy birthday to J-Street
The Washington Post sends a Happy Birthday card to J-Street, New Liberal Jewish Lobby Quickly Makes Its Mark: When a group of Jewish liberals formed a lobbying and fundraising group called J Street a year ago, they had modest hopes … Continue reading
The “cycle of violence” returns
Hamas tested Israel’s new PM. Terrorists launched a kassam rocket at Israel yesterday. Today, Israel launched a bigger rocket at Hamas. At least, that’s how the wire services will play this one out. But is that what happened? A day … Continue reading
The self-defense of Jews: Still not welcome
This is an interesting argument that’s been floating around for quite some time. The world says to Israel that it exaggerates the danger of Iran. Israel says she will take action in self-defense if necessary, even if that means striking … Continue reading
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The ever-present anti-Israel AP slant
Exhibit A: An evolution of headlines. Israel says it’s unlikely to co-operate in UN’s Gaza investigation Fairly balanced, gets the point across, no evident bias. Exhibit B: The updated story. Israel balks at UN war crimes probe of Gaza war … Continue reading
What? Good news briefs?
Good news from Russia? Russia has yet to supply Iran with the sophisticated anti-aircraft defenses that would make it more difficult to take out Iran’s nuclear program. Mind you, I know almost nothing about weaponry, but I do hope that … Continue reading
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Israeli Double Standard Time in plain sight
You know, it’s not enough that the world pushes the Palestinian problem at Israel, while utterly ignoring the fact that an equal number of Jews were forced out of Arab and Muslim countries right after the establishment of the State … Continue reading
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Jewish/Israeli Blog Carnival
My apologies for the late notice on this one. The latest edition of Haveil Havalim, the weekly Jewish/Israeli blogosphere blog carnival is up at Shtetl Fabulous. Go read Haveil Havalim #212: How Many Days til We Can Eat Bread?
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Iran and Hamas, partners for peace
In an editorial, the New York Times questions whether Binyamin Netanyahu can be trusted to make peace. There is so much wrong with “Being a partner for peace“, I could spend all day critiquing it. But one point stood out: … Continue reading
Who struck the mighty convoy?
Sudan is alleging that another country struck a convoy. According to the Washington Post, “foreign” planes, suspected to be American or Israeli killed hundreds of people. Mubarak Mabrook Saleem, Sudan’s transportation minister, told the Associated Press he believed American planes … Continue reading
More on the Israeli war crimes in Gaza
In a way the rise of this subject was as inevitable as the next sunrise. After eight years of Qassam bombardment and the callous (and documented) use of Gazan population as one formidable human shield during the Cast Lead operation, … Continue reading
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The fierce irrelevance of Roger Cohen
Roger Cohen thinks that we can have peace in the Middle East, if the United States would just listen to a bunch of experts associated with the US Middle East Project. In the Fierce Urgency of Peace: Pressure on President … Continue reading
Netanyahu and the Palestinian veto
Regarding Israel’s incoming Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, the New York Times observes: “I think that the Palestinians should understand that they have in our government a partner for peace, for security and for rapid development of the Palestinian economy,†said … Continue reading