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
It begins: Countdown to Olmert’s downfall
This time, he’s not going to manage to stay in office. Ehud Barak is calling on Olmert to step down. “The prime minister must detach himself from the daily management of the government. He can do so in a variety … Continue reading
How significant was the al-Dura verdict?
Richard Landes comments on the court’s decision in the Karsenty/Enderlin case. Generally speaking, I think this is a devastating decision. The judges go out of their way to criticize everyone involved on the side of France2 (including some backhanded swipes … Continue reading
The Syria-Iran axis
Syria has no intention of giving up ties with Iran, no intention of giving up support of terrorist groups in and out of the Palestinian terrortories[sic], and therefore, no intention of the much-touted “land for peace” solution to the Golan … Continue reading
Out of school
The NYT citing a Reuters report doesn’t seem to feel that this is any big deal. Former President Jimmy Carter said Israel held at least 150 nuclear weapons, the first time a current or former American president had publicly acknowledged … Continue reading
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AP boilerplate ignores Syrian attacks on Israel
There’s something that’s missing from the latest AP stories on the negotiations with Syria about the Golan Heights. Israel captured the strategic plateau in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed the area. Many Israelis are reluctant to relinquish the … Continue reading
Israel surrenders to terrorists
This can’t be true. Please tell me that this isn’t really true. The IDF is evacuating a base near Gaza because they’re afraid soldiers will be kidnapped? Whatever happened to the idea that soldiers, you know, protect and defend? For … Continue reading
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Qualities of mercy
This picture and caption is infuriating: Bassam Kantar, the brother of Samir Kantar, the longest-held Lebanese in Israel, imprisoned since 1979 for killing three Israelis, gestures as he holds a picture of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah during a rally … Continue reading
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Justifying the prediction of the surgeon general
Bradley Burston in The Palestinians’ time is running out. You have justified every last claim and prediction of the Israeli right. Ponder that for a moment. Let me digress. Say that you hear tha a friend of yours, Smoky Joe, … Continue reading
Amy Winehouse in, Norman Finkelstein out
The Shin Bet security service detained and deported an American Jewish professor who is a prominent critic of the Israeli occupation when he landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Friday. There are some official reasons for booting the creep out, … Continue reading
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Briefly
Things for you to look at this weekend, which is a three-day weekend for us ‘Murricans. Toldja so: Syria wants the Golan, not peace. A Syrian government paper rejects Israel’s demand that Damascus should cut its ties with Iran and … Continue reading
Oh, c’mon, he’s not that bad
The British papers are having a field day with this one: The IAF threatened to shoot down Tony Blair’s jet Wednesday. Two Israeli fighter aircraft threatened to shoot down a private jet transporting Tony Blair after coming under the misapprehension … Continue reading
Palestinian terror at the crossings
Once again, Palestinians are the cause of the crossings into Gaza closing. Once again, the UN is telling Israel that even though Palestinians are trying to kill soldiers and civilians via terror attacks from the crossings, Israel should not close … Continue reading
Negotiating in the dark
When reading about the Israeli-Syrian negotiations it’s easy to dismiss them on account of Olmert’s legal trouble or because it isn’t even clear that Israel stands to gain anything from ceding the Golan to Syria. It’s also reasonably clear that … Continue reading
Syria does the expected; blames Israel
Just as I told you: Syria doesn’t want peace. Syria wants the Golan. And that’s about it. Syria said on Thursday it had received guarantees from Israel via Turkey for a full withdrawal from the occupied Golan Heights and rejected … Continue reading
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Dear Mr. Hoyt
Dear Mr. Hoyt, In her valedictory from the Middle East, Deborah Sontag wrote “Quest for Mideast Peace: How and Why it failed.” In it she tells a story: But Palestinians drove away from that dinner with something else on their … Continue reading