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 IDF hits that kept on coming
Yaakov Katz details the intel that helped the IDF utterly destroy the major Hamas centers in the first day of the Gaza operation: A year of information-gathering by Military Intelligence and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) paved the way … Continue reading
Gaza casualty rate: 94% terrorists, so far
The bad news is that Ismail Haniyeh is still alive. The good news is that it seems the casualty rate was about 94% terrorists. Israeli warplanes rained more than 100 tons of bombs on security sites in Hamas-ruled Gaza Saturday … Continue reading
The mainstream media: Hamas press flacks
You won’t find this quote by Ehud Olmert outside the Israeli media, at least, not at the time of this post. I can’t find it. “Israel has done all it could to preserve the ceasefire with Hamas, but our desire … Continue reading
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How Israel fooled Hamas
A lovely story to take with me to the gym: Maneuvering the enemy: The Israel government reportedly employed several measures in order to lead Hamas into a false sense of security and ensure the operation against the Islamist group would … Continue reading
Lessons learned: Israel’s PR blitz
Israel did learn its lesson from the Lebanon war, and especially in regard to the Hezbullah propaganda machine. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Saturday instructed the Foreign Ministry to take emergency measures to adapt Israel’s international public relations to the … Continue reading
Gaza op: Analysis
The rules of the game have changed. The Israeli air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza on Saturday, hugely dramatic in their scope, nonetheless mark only the beginning of an ongoing, potentially lengthy operation aimed at restoring calm to the … Continue reading
World reaction to the Gaza ops: The D-word is found
Yes, the D-word is being used. French President Nicolas Sarkozy accused Israel of using disproportionate violence in its attacks on the Gaza Strip Saturday. The bombardment must stop immediately, Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said in Paris. … Continue reading
Gaza Op: Surprise attack catches Hamas with its goons down
Went back to bed this morning with a stomach-ache, woke up to the news: The first Gaza operation has come and gone. And Hamas was completely surprised. A Hamas source in Gaza confirmed Saturday that the Israeli Air Force attack … Continue reading
The side of Bethlehem the wire services don’t show you
Here’s an interesting look at the “secure” town of Bethlehem today, and what it was like when it was under IDF control: It’s been eight years since I last set foot in Bethlehem. As a Jewish Israeli tour guide, I … Continue reading
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Hamas rockets kill their own; Israeli hospitals treat wounded Gazans
Hamas rockets killed two children in Gaza, and strangely, the media hasn’t picked up that fact and sent thousands of headlines blaring across the world. A rocket apparently fired by Palestinians on Friday struck a house in the Gaza Strip, … Continue reading
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Talkin’ Turki, part two
Soccer Dad has an excellent post about the former Saudi ambassador’s op-ed in the Washington Post. But he and I have different views of the piece. Here are the parts that leaped out at me. In May, Israel celebrated the … Continue reading
Talkin’ Turki
Former Saudi ambassador to the United States, Turki al-Faisal offers Peace for the Mideast. Subtitled “How Our Plan Could Aid Barack Obama’s Efforts” the op-ed is ostensibly a demonstration of how magnanimous the Saudis are in the efforts to seek … Continue reading
News media can’t slam Israel for Bethlehem this year—oh. Wait.
Instead of the “Israel is killing Christmas” stories this year, the news services are serving up a plate of “Bethlehem is going like gangbusters, BUT—Gaza really sucks, d00dz.” Witness: Christmas in Bethlehem festive, Gaza violent Christians celebrated Bethlehem’s merriest Christmas … Continue reading
Flying pig alert: UNSG chastens Hamas
The UN SecGen actually issued a statement calling for Hamas to stop rocketing Israel without calling for the reduction of violence “on both sides.” He does, of course, condemn the Gaza blockade. The Secretary-General is gravely concerned about the situation … Continue reading