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
Peace processing mirage
Still Waiting to Seize the Moment – Editorial from the New York Times. Despite longstanding pledges, the Israelis are refusing to stop expanding settlements while the Palestinians aren’t doing enough to halt violence against Israel. A Middle East Commitment – … Continue reading
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Shaky
Israeli PM Olmert’s coalition might look a lot less solid at the end of the day. OneJerusalem reports that the 11 seat Yisrael Beiteinu faction is likely to leave the government, leaving the Kadima led coalition with 67 seats. The … Continue reading
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All nied up
via memeorandumfrom Bothersome Intel on Iran by Michael Hirsh, Newsweek Israeli and other foreign officials asked Bush to explain the NIE, which concluded with “high confidence” that Iran halted what the document describes as its “nuclear weapons program.” The NIE … Continue reading
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On the care and feeding of autocrats
Shibley Telhami, who has made a career of interpreting polling data from totalitarian regimes, tells us today that “It’s not about Iran.”(If your leader, through the media and other apparatuses of state, makes clear that the Israeli “occupation” of Palestine … Continue reading
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The unacknowledged war
The Palestinians of the Gaza Strip have been at war with Israel for years. The Jews of Gaza are gone, but the war continues. On Sunday, another volley of mortars fell on Israeli communities, pretty much unnoticed by all but … Continue reading
A brother could love
According to the New York Times: Given the international uproar that unfolded after the bombing, “we can assume it’s not a reactor,†said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a private group in Washington that … Continue reading
Norman Finkelstein in Lebanon: when the unmentionable meets the unspeakable
Probably getting booted out from the DePaul university has exacerbated his all-consuming lust for visibility. Now he has found a way – after his other learned friend, who also went on a similar pilgrimage. Finkelstein is known as a vocal … Continue reading
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Libya on the UNSC: Stooge for the Arab League
The new Libyan head of the UN Security Council has proven me right, in less than two weeks. First, the good news: Meanwhile, the Security Council condemned Katyusha rocket fire from Lebanon that struck Shlomi in northern Israel, according to … Continue reading
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Ms. Magazine refuses to publish ad about Israel’s most powerful women
The magazine co-founded by Gloria Steinem doesn’t seem to like Jews when they’re Israeli Jews. Or at least, that’s the impression they’re giving after rejecting an ad for Israel that the AJC wanted to place. The magazine has turned down … Continue reading
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Arun amok
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, gives pacifism a bad name. Here’s a roundup of responses. Shira bat Sarah (who brought this swill to my attention) writes in Family Tradition: Why … Continue reading
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George W. Bush’s Clintonian diplomacy
He hasn’t invited Yasser Arafat to the White House, but you could pretty much substitute any major Clinton speech on Israel and the Palestinians for the speech W. gave yesterday. In addition to these three tracks, both sides are getting … Continue reading
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Shavit’s prescription
One of the most consistently interesting Israeli columnists, is Ari Shavit from Ha’aretz. Though a member of the Left and of the peace camp, he has consistently demonstrated an intellectual honest that makes him readable even if I don’t agree … Continue reading
Hard at work
Sorry for the absence today, but I was at Company in Northern VA, training on a program that I now have to document. Busy day yesterday, busy day today, and a two-hour drive both times. Well, a shorter drive back … Continue reading
4 + 1 on President Bush in the Middle East
Bush’s last year: The best, one hopes, is yet to come by Barry Rubin The gap between the real Middle East and how it is perceived by all too many people in Washington and in the academic-journalistic elite is far … Continue reading
No gaza = more terror
I generally like Max Boot. (In fact I even have relatives who like reading him.)However his take on the withdrawal from Gaza, More on the decline of Terror is mistaken for a number of reasons. Boot writes: I wrote in … Continue reading