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
Your unbiased, objective AP take on Hamas terrorism
The AP, which claims it is unbiased, objective, and simply reporting the facts, has a very interesting take on the mortar attack that murdered a 48-year-old Israeli civilian, and the IDF response. First, the unbiased headline: Attack from Gaza kills … Continue reading
Assad will not cut ties with Iran
All of those fools who are touting talking to Syria, and giving back the Golan Heights to achieve peace with Syria can stop now. (Oh, they won’t, but they should.) Bashar Assad has said quite clearly that even if he … Continue reading
The hobgoblin of David Ignatius
Yesterday David Ignatius wrote: The game-changing events in the 2008 campaign are issues of war and peace. Both may be in play between now and November, in ways that add extra volatility to the presidential race. And of course the … Continue reading
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Follow the useful idiots
There’s a group called Follow the Women that’s organized a bike ride through the Middle East in the name of peace. Here’s what a participant wrote last month: Nearly 250 women, representing 30 nationalities from mostly Europe and the Middle … Continue reading
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Today’s insult
The Washington Post’s Griff Witte, takes a device from Reuters and focuses on two men who, like Israel, were born in 1948. One is Israeli and one is Palestinian. In Born at the dawn of a new state Witte is … Continue reading
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Strategic planning for the rich and famous
Making up somewhat for yesterday’s insult, The NYT today reported on At 60, Israel Redefines Roles for Itself and for Jews Elsewhere. The conference seems like an extravagance: But there is another form of celebration planned, and its sponsors believe … Continue reading
The necessary Jewish state
A few days ago Media Backspin asked What is Israel’s Greatest Accomplishment? I was in grade school when the 6 Day War was fought. I remember seeing a film strip soon after. It was quite impressive. Though, as a 6 … Continue reading
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On Israel’s 60th birthday: Optimism
Birthday greetings from Hillel Halkin: Were I prophetically to know that Israel would perish within the next 20 or 30 or 50 years, as many of its bon ton critics are now prognosticating, it would not make the slightest difference … Continue reading
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To the enemies of Israel on the occasion of her 60th birthday:
Eff you.
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Ehud Barak: Israel is fighting the next war
The IDF is an army that thinks. The Iranians go with what worked in the past. Like I keep telling you: The IDF is going to be fighting the next war, while Hamas and Hezbullah are fighting the last one. … Continue reading
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This week’s Shire Network News
This week’s Shire Network News is out. The feature interview is with Barry Rubin of The GLORIA Center. My piece is on Israel’s 60th birthday, and is available on my site as well.
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Palestinians cry “canton”
One aspect of Israeli negotiations with the Palestinians that’s constant is that whatever Israel offers will be dismissed as an insult or some other epithet. Now that negotiations are coming down to nitty-gritty details like borders, the cries start anew. … Continue reading
It’s unwinnable if you don’t fight to win
In War of the rockets, Jackson Diehl writes: For months now, Israel has been mired in an unwinnable war against Hamas and allied militias in Gaza, who fire missiles at civilians in Israel and then hide among their own women … Continue reading
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Honoring survival
In Honoring Survival, and Gifts to a Nation Isabel Kershner writes about a new exhibit at Yad Vashem devoted to the Holocaust survivors who escaped to Israel. The gray walls of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial here, have long documented … Continue reading
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Entebbe audio
Israel has released some audio of the Entebbe raid. Ynet provides the audio and a transcript. The missing passenger was Dora Bloch who had been taken to the hospital. After the rescue she was killed. (h/t Jack’s Shack) Crossposted on … Continue reading
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