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 moral Disneyland revisited
Twenty years ago Charles Krauthammer wrote The Mideast as Moral Disneyland. (Washington Post, February 5, 1988). What set Krauthammer off was a complaint by Woody Allen about how Israel wasn’t so lovable as it once was. In the middle of … Continue reading
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Hamas leader: Rayyan the brute
The estimable Khaled Abu Toameh profiles the Hamas leader who was killed by Israeli bombs yesterday. Looks like the man responsible for throwing Fatah members off Gaza buildings is the one that was killed by dropping a building on him. … Continue reading
Mulling on Hamas, Gaza, Seth, matzav
It is quite difficult to mull on the developments in Gaza while people are dying. People will continue to die, more if the ground operation we are being warned about will come true. This (people dying) is so far the … Continue reading
The IDF has a blog
Granted, it’s not a blog like yours and mine, but still: Linked.
Someone shut Hamas up already, please
More “gates of hell” rhetoric from Hamas: Hamas warned on Thursday that the organization’s response to the targeted killing of one of its leaders by Israel would be “strong and painful.” Meanwhile, a member of one of the other armed … Continue reading
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Jack’s Gaza update 5.5
It’s here. Soccer Dad and I can’t do it all ourselves, you know.
Chris Muir on disproportionate response
Ever spot on:
American Jewish kids still love Israel
I thought young American Jews don’t care for Israel anymore. This doesn’t make any sense, then. Instead of spending their winter vacation with their families, 120 American college students have come to volunteer in the Negev – despite the proximity … Continue reading
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Time to give
There are a few charitable organizations who could use some extra money right about now. You can send a pizza to the IDF. (We raised money for a whole company in 2006.) You can contribute to Magen David Adom, the … Continue reading
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The Post improves
After using its editorial pages to criticize and undermine Israeli claims for several days the Washington Post comes out today with two excellent defenses of Israeli actions. First is Ephraim Sneh’s Why Israel is bombing Gaza. Sneh, though a former … Continue reading
The coming ground war
Here’s where I make a fool of myself and try my hand at analysis. Because I’m not in any way, shape, or form a military expert. But I completely disagree with this opinion piece in Ha’aretz, which says that Israel … Continue reading
2009 starts with a miracle: Grad hits Ashdod, none wounded
An apartment building in Ashdod was hit by a rocket, and nobody was hurt. The miracles just keep on coming. A Grad rocket fired from northern Gaza at around noon Thursday struck an eight-storey apartment building in Ashdod. The rocket … Continue reading
NYT: Hamas upgrades = success / Israel defends = disaster
The NYT today features two articles about Israel’s war against Hamas that are rather revealing. One is Striking Deep Into Israel, Hamas Employs an Upgraded Rocket Arsenal, and the second is In Dense Gaza, Civilians Suffer They are revealing both … Continue reading
Gaza roundup 4.5
Jack does it, so I don’t have to. But I will anyway. The weather is currently in Hamas’ favor: It’s going to clear up tomorrow. The ground war is likely to begin after it clears. Arabs are shooting Israelis in … Continue reading
Israel ratchets it up a notch: Mosque hit
The IDF bombed a mosque used by terrorists as a rocket launching site. Wait for the world to scream like a girl and faint. The IDF confirmed Wednesday afternoon that Air Force jets bombed a mosque in western Gaza City. … Continue reading